From The First Cuckoo of Spring (oh, and Quayfoot Buttress)
From Gimme even more Sunshine
From Yorkshire Three Peaks
From Lower Falcon Crag
From North Face Trail & Bluebells
From Spring Snow - Vallee Blanche Again
From Spring Rock - Another Bravo Lapp
From Pete feels Queazy...

Month: May 2014

The First Cuckoo of Spring (oh, and Quayfoot Buttress)

Thursday, 29th May 2014

We had plans to get several household chores, gardening, and decorating jobs done over the bank holiday weekend. This seemed like a perfect plan as the weather forecast was less than hopefully.

Gimme even more Sunshine

Wednesday, 21st May 2014

After exploring the some trad climbing on Tenerife a few weeks ago, it seemed logical to do the same for Gran Canaria, which we did the other week.

Yorkshire Three Peaks

Tuesday, 20th May 2014

On Saturday, in glorious summer sunshine, I was trekking around the 39 kilometre classic Yorkshire Three Peaks circuit with a charity group (Tiny Tickers) of 22 walkers. I’ve never done the “Y3P” as a single expedition before. Although clearly I’ve wandered around all of the segments of this route previously either on shorter walks, climbing, …

Lower Falcon Crag

Friday, 16th May 2014

Wednesday was the first of this summer’s CC evening climbing meets in the Lakes. Thankfully the weather was perfect – sunny, warm, and of course dry. Hooray! Strangely with such lovely conditions only a select gang bothered to turn up. I wonder if it was the choice of venue? Lower Falcon Crag in Borrowdale is …

North Face Trail & Bluebells

Monday, 12th May 2014

Sneaking a couple of hours of mountain biking between the showers in Grisedale Forest on the North Face Mountain Bike Trail…

Spring Snow – Vallee Blanche Again

Monday, 5th May 2014

Monday was amazing as well. More wall to wall sunshine, so this time we did jump on the lift up to the Aiguille du Midi (not the first lift I hasten to add).

Spring Rock – Another Bravo Lapp

Monday, 5th May 2014

Sunday arrived as perfect as forecasted – wall to wall sunshine. But instead of jumping on the first lift up to the Aiguille du Midi to bag a rock route, we decided to let the sun do it’s stuff and hopefully melt any snowy ledges while we hopped over the border to Switzerland.

Pete feels Queazy…

Saturday, 3rd May 2014

We’re taking advantage of the Bank Holiday weekend and spending a few days in Chamonix. The plan is to climb, but the forecast for today wasn’t looking too good until late afternoon so we decided to enjoy the last of the snow at Grand Montets.

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