Two weekends of fine weather! I can’t remember when that last happened, I just hope – with every fibre of my being – that it can continue…
Gouther Crag
Saturday we chose a favourite crag of ours, Gouther Crag in Swindale. Being west facing it also allows for, encourages even, a late start. This is a good thing after a super tough 60+ hour week of work, oh it’ll be nice to one day not have to work so hard and give up the corporate life!
Amongst other routes we ticked the classic Bloodhound and the equally brilliant, if a bit harder, parallel line of Bloodletting.
Jackdaw Scar
Sunday morning we had an appointment in Ambleside to sort out Laetitia’s new open water swimming wetsuit. Laetitia used to swim competitively and after just a few weeks she is already feeling at ease in the open water. To be honest, even though I’m a fairly weak swimmer, I too am attracted to the serene experience that swimming in Windermere with views of the beautiful Langdale Pikes as a backdrop must be. Imagine what a unique view-point that must be.
Next on the agenda for the day was a trip to a special nursery near Penrith, Larch Cottage. The cost of the journey is well worth the investment as they have such an amazing range of plants presented in a superb setting. That plus the fact that they are far cheaper than garden centres like Hayes.
Anyhow, after all that (and Saturday’s trip to a familiar crag) we chose a brand new venue for us, Jackdaw Scar in King’s Meaburn between Penrith and Shap.
So why do you have pictures of rock, which lets face it, all look the same and no pictures of plants. This is clearly a diabolical plan to remind us all who is the chief git on this blog. Don’t worry Pete, we all know… 😆
PS Does the nursery do cake?
Good points Colin – rock climbing pictures do often all end up looking the same, and we should have included some photos from Larch Cottage (which does also have a great cafe, that we didn’t use as there was chocolate cake waiting for us at home! :yum: )
Pictures of everything repeated look the same, well, except plants, cake and steam engines :good:
And why no chocolate cake picture? – I have to go to bed now with no cake to dream of 😯
How come that you in England have wonderful sunny weather while we in Hungary have rain and rain and rain ❓ What has the world come to? 😯
The rock of Jackdaw Scar looks very exciting, how did it feel?
The bottom five metres or so were soft red sandstone, so it was severely undercut creating a limestone overhang to surmount to reach the steep pocketed wall above. Quite good fun actually! 😀