Sterling Adventures » Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog The latest reports of world wide rock & ice climbing (and other extreme) fun and adventure! Fri, 10 Feb 2012 13:50:29 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Lakeland Snow http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/02/05/lakeland-snow/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/02/05/lakeland-snow/#comments Sun, 05 Feb 2012 22:15:36 +0000 Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=17316 Richard and Ali came over to the Lakes this weekend... Snow was forecast, yet Saturday morning dawned cold and clear, though that didn't last long.

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/31/antarctic-postcard/feed/ 2 Bowfell & the Wayfarers/CC Accord Meet http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/29/bowfell-the-wayfarerscc-accord-meet/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/29/bowfell-the-wayfarerscc-accord-meet/#comments Sun, 29 Jan 2012 15:14:14 +0000 Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=17210 Saturday morning dawned bright, clear, and cold. Plus it had snowed a lot up high on Thursday and Friday. This was the weather I had been hoping for for some time to get out and climb Bowfell Buttress in winter-nick. Bowfell Buttress is probably the best hard-ish winter classic mixed route of the Lake District… [...]

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/29/bowfell-the-wayfarerscc-accord-meet/feed/ 7 Sharp Edge http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/15/sharp-edge/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/15/sharp-edge/#comments Sun, 15 Jan 2012 20:16:18 +0000 Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=16942 After yesterday up on Pavey with glorious blue sunny skies and dry warm rock today was again brilliantly sunny when we rolled out of bed! What’s happening, two great days of weather, in winter, and at the weekend… However, there was a light breeze today and as we packed ready to go out to a [...]

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/15/sharp-edge/feed/ 1 Cold Capella http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/14/cold-capella/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2012/01/14/cold-capella/#comments Sat, 14 Jan 2012 22:37:27 +0000 Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=16926 Wow, the first awesome weather in the Lakes for what seems like weeks and weeks, and we were at home… We weren’t the only ones to think that, the car park at the New Dungeon Ghyll was very full. Despite the temperatures being in the minus small numbers in the valley we know of a [...]

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/12/03/the-best-mountain-biking-in-lakeland/feed/ 0 Richard’s Birthday Celebrations http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/11/27/richards-birthday-celebrations/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/11/27/richards-birthday-celebrations/#comments Sun, 27 Nov 2011 21:50:33 +0000 Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=16025 Why was I looking a little rough? Well, the previous evening a bunch of us had gone out for dinner in the Pheasant Inn in Keswick to celebrate Richard's birthday...

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]]> http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/10/31/barden-moor/feed/ 2 Tahoe wrap up… http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/10/17/tahoe-wrap-up/ http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2011/10/17/tahoe-wrap-up/#comments Mon, 17 Oct 2011 17:02:36 +0000 Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=15523 A final report to wrap up our adventures in Tahoe, California...

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