The Cream Tea Team
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From Birthday Potholing
Month: July 2008
Birthday Potholing
Rain avoidance, France 2008
Dolomite Update
Soggy Saunders
New CC Hut (Grange School House)
Famine as cabbage crop blighted
A Day in Cambridge
Crossing the Crag
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The CC hut opening wasn't the only unusual event in Borrowdale this weekend...
To celebrate Dave’s birthday he wanted to go down Gaping Ghyll’s main shaft – the longest daylight pot hole in the UK. But the previous week’s torrential rain had made that option a decidedly dangerous proposition. Rowten Pot was chosen as a good alternative, being a nice short walk and not threatened by high water …
The weather in the UK has been pretty dire for caving over the last year. So to try and remember what it feels like to clamber and swim around underground a group of us headed off to the Department du Lot in France...
Pending the impending kat-card, here's quick update on our climbing activities so far in the Dolomites...
The Saunders Mountain Marathon, was one of my favourite events last year.... so we tried it again. We did the Kirkfell course last year and so we stepped up a class this year to do the Bowfell...
The new Climbers Club hut in Grange, Borrowdale is opening next weekend on 12th July. But it isn't quite ready yet, so a call (via e-mail) to muster was sent out for help this weekend to knock the place into shape...
World food markets slumped at the news that the extensive Aspatria cabbage crop is being eaten prior to harvest...
Amy and Terry take a trip down the Cam......
Monday evening is a good time for a route that traverses a popular crag. We went down to Shepherd's after work, sadly we were too late for the cafe...