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Month: May 2007
Laetitia taking a swing on Red Wall – yes it is pretty steep! Laetitia, Paul and Pete were greeted by BMC signs informing us that peregrines were nesting at today’s venue – Warton Quarry. Not that we needed the signs to know that the warning in the guide book about possible nesting bird restrictions was …
Heavy rain and a cold northerly wind was forecast, so Kath, Dave, Paul, Laetitia and Pete [ed. oops, almost forgot Millie & Pippa] decided the best option for the weather was to go for a mountain bike round of Kentmere… The weather turned out better than forecast – only a few (cold) showers and quite …
Enjoying a drink at Andy and Sabiene's...
Sarah and Anna not climbing!
Paul on Ethics of War We set off for Gimmer Crag in Langdale today – it was sunny, and the south facing buttress seemed like a good option. Fifteen minutes from the car we came over a rise and felt the teeth of the cold northerly wind! Gimmer was going to be cold! A quick …
It was a lovely sunny evening, so I chose the coldest, windiest, south east facing crag I could find – doh! I froze while Pete struggled up a dirty 2 star HVS. I don’t think it gets much traffic. I didn’t follow – my hands were frozen – so Pete had to abseil down. Oh …
Rick asked me along to the Coventry swimming pool to act as official observer whilst he tested his new micro rebreather. The rebreather is a pendulum type semi closed design purpose built to minimise size and weight. Containing only 600 grams of absorbent it gives a duration of up to one and a half hours …
Having seen Friday’s forecast for the weekend I decided to lay turf on Saturday and risk climbing on grit between the predicted showers on Sunday. Sunday dawned dry and bright so we headed off to Gardoms. Come 4 pm after several classic routes, sore fingers and weary arms brought our day to a close; not …
The forecast was atrocious, and of course wildly inaccurate!
