Year: 2007
Well cats, seems we’re in the silly season while the ‘A’ team await a weather window on the Verte. Watch for the lenticular cloud, as the old boys used to say, and run like..anything if it comes. Meanwhile, how do you like this nice cat that I came across in the Dolomites last week?
Homes are few and far between in the Lakes, but just look at this des res..... yours for just £75,000. (local occupancy applies)
Laetitia contemplates a knife? (photo by Paul) Pete’s plan A today seemed to also be plan A for every beginner in the valley. We approached Valorcine and found it heaving with would be climbers. Every route was occupied by young students learning the ropes. Crowds of beginners! We managed to find a route that isn’t …
Yes this slab (sorry, wall, Terry) was “Grande” and great fun too. Although I think we got off route a bit at one point finding ourselves in the middle of very blank slab some way above the last protection! But that isn’t surprising, we had no guidebook, just Paul’s vague recollection of the route from …
Paul and Boris We said we’d get back to Le Chapeau (it was good last time) – and today the poor forecast coupled with our forgetting the guidebook meant we needed a plan B; Chapeau… Paul, Boris, Laetitia and Pete grabbed four excellent granite slab routes before today’s thunderstorms started. Testing moves on a 6c …
Our evening walk with the Armstrong watson crowd stayed dry and sunny.............. AMAZING!
The weather had remained dry overnight so I took the chance of a trip up to Grey Wife Hole on Newby Moss, an interesting Sunday cave only 15 minutes from the road. The original plan was to go and dive the sump. Common sense prevailed and I went up with the aim of checking the …
A last minuite decision Friday night to cancel our N Wales trip due to the ongoing monsoon saw Paul and SS in the Peak Saturday morning. Too cold and windy for grit; too wet for limestone. Need somewhere sheltered and quick drying...
The weather forecast caught us out and delivered yet more rain instead of the dry sunny spells promised, so we ended up passing on the climbing option. Doh! It’s a good job there are plenty of efficient mountain streams in the Lakes or else I’m sure we’d be under feet of water by now. When …
