Wet & Windy at Brackenclose

I was hosting the CC meet at the FRCC hut in Wasdale, Brackenclose, and had been looking forward for months to doing Botterill’s Slab, but as the week progressed the forecast for the weekend gradually got worse and worse. We were undecided which route we would do as we set off from the hut knowing that the rain was imminent – we had thoughts about Moss Ghyll Grooves? If we’d made an Alpine start we would have beaten the rain that started just as we arrived at the bottom of the route. :angry:

Paul, Anna, Ian and Laetitia on the long slog up to Scafell cragWe threw on our waterproofs and decided to walk to the top of Scafell where we were nearly blown over by the wind and rain.

Pete getting wet!We headed back down to the hut on the knee breaking track.

A couple of cups of tea later the wind picked up and down crashed a branch from one of the large oak trees onto one of our parked cars! This provided us with some drama and entertainment. But a whole afternoon in the hut seemed a little daunting, so we headed out to Sellafield visitor’s centre. It was shut! 🙄 So what else could we do on a wet Saturday afternoon? Beer and Chips! :yum:

Timber!

:star: Beer & Chips :star: Saturday night we had dinner (a catered meet 😛 ), a climbing quiz and a slide show. Which was all great fun. The slides were supposed to be from the day’s adventures, but the rain saw to that and so we enjoyed other pictures from Norway, Italy, France, Scotland, etc.

On Sunday it was still raining cats & dogs and even windier! We went home. 🙁