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Month: August 2008
All the Elliotts decided to get together for Sunday lunch...
What rain? We expected heavy rain on Saturday; as we drove over Snake Pass and saw the first spots on the windscreen we thought it was gonna be as forecast - wet. Maybe a day cruising the gear shops of the Peak was ahead...
We came home from Switzerland on Thursday night, on Friday we picked our new house and on Saturday we started the Phoenix Mountain Marathon...
Another trip into Ink sump and a mystery is solved.
Last night I managed to rescue some pics I took on a mate's camera from a trip across Beinn Eighe in April...
Our great British summer brought more threats of wind and rain so with that in mind Colin, Bev, Clive and Paul headed for Lawrencefield...
With only a few hours of play before having to leave Chamonix to fly back to the UK we took the popular option of grabbing a few routes at Les Gaillands...
After getting up late, as usual, to a glorious sunny Saturday, and the obligatory trip to Snells to buy those really essential items we just can't live without, we left a hot and crowded Chamonix and made our way up to the cool of Vallon de Berard...
Here's one for the Percy Throwers and Charlie Dimmocks of the site...