• Despite the cold wind and everyone's desire to get to the Beer Festival, time for one more route, Do Not Direct

  • ...okay so it's a bit of posed picture on the top pitch of Slip Knot

  • Pete Mina and Jon

  • Jon looking cool with the Stickle Barn below

  • Jon, Rebecca and Anna share the belay on Slabs Route

  • Rebecca on the first pitch of Slip Knot

  • Mina and Laetitia feeling a bit chilled in the cold wind on top of White Ghyll, with Harrison Stickle behind

  • Mina on the belay of Forget Me Not with Jon behind

  • Ian catches the sun on Slabs Route

  • Heading off to White Ghyll

  • Keith on Waste Not, Want Not

White Ghyll

For Rebecca and Mina’s last day of climbing on their trip to the Lakes we were finally lucky with the weather. Although there was a bitingly cold wind, it was dry and sunny! 😀 Ideas of Yorkshire limestone to avoid the bad (wet) weather that had dominated the rest of the week were dismissed, and we decided upon White Ghyll in Langdale to sample a little of what makes the Lakes such a beautiful climbing venue; volcanic mountain rock climbing and awesome scenery…

Heading off to White Ghyll
Heading off to White Ghyll
Ian catches the sun on Slabs Route
Ian catches the sun on Slabs Route
Jon, Rebecca and Anna share the belay on Slabs Route
Jon, Rebecca and Anna share the belay on Slabs Route

Andy and Astrid were there too…

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Mina on the belay of Forget Me Not with Jon behind
Mina on the belay of Forget Me Not with Jon behind
Jon looking cool with the Stickle Barn below
Jon looking cool with the Stickle Barn below

So many people out to enjoy the Lakeland sun and say “Hi” to Rebecca and Mina… Keith, [Mina], Anna, [Rebecca], Ian, Fiona, Laetitia, plus me, Jon behind and Andy and Astrid still climbing above.

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Mina and Laetitia feeling a bit chilled in the cold wind on top of White Ghyll, with Harrison Stickle behind
Mina and Laetitia feeling a bit chilled in the cold wind on top of White Ghyll, with Harrison Stickle behind
Pete, Mina and Jon
Pete, Mina and Jon
Rebecca on the first pitch of Slip Knot
Rebecca on the first pitch of Slip Knot
...okay so it's a bit of posed picture on the top pitch of Slip Knot
...okay so it's a bit of posed picture on the top pitch of Slip Knot
Keith on Waste Not, Want Not
Keith on Waste Not, Want Not
Despite the cold wind and everyone's desire to get to the Beer Festival, time for one more route, Do Not Direct
Despite the cold wind and everyone's desire to get to the Beer Festival, time for one more route, Do Not Direct

Series - German Lakeland Visit

  1. Rebecca & Mina visit Shepherds Crag
  2. Staveley Beer Festival – Beer, Gurning and Music
  3. White Ghyll

6 thoughts on “White Ghyll”

  1. I have only one thing to say: “Ich fliege nach Munchen” – that’s because it is almost all I can say in German. Well, maybe it will be Heidelberg actually, to visit Rebecca’s and Mina’s local crags.

  2. Auja, kommt alle nach Karlsruhe! Wir würden uns saumäßig freuen! 😛

    I really enjoyed the stunning view, the grippy rock, no rain, the adrenergic climbs with freezing fingers, the dead sheep at the bottom… I was really glad not to end like that 😉

    Thank you for leading pete! You’re a brave one!

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