Yet another year is nearly over, and it's been a really wet year too - November saw record rainfall and devastating floods in Cumbria ... but the blog is another year old; a grand old age of four!
I got up early this morning, with the intention of taking advantage of the winter climbing possibilities in the Lakes. Ended up skiing instead?! Nice.
It was a glorious day, dinner could wait, so we went for a walk.
...a days winter climbing in the Lakes scuppered by too much snow! Shouldn't complain though, blue skies all day, light winds and the place to ourselves - apart from the very friendly/hungry robin that followed us most of the way in.
Cake has featured quite a lot this weekend, so I'll give a quick run down...
And snow it did. And then it snowed some more....
Having arrived in Canberra to temperatures hovering around 30 °C, after a few days we set off to the Snowy Mountains with an ascent of Mt Kosciuszco [2228m] in mind...
With a forecast for cold temperatures and reports of good winter climbing conditions the previous weekend, Matt and I headed north on Friday night to see what we could find.
The four members of the West Midlands Cave Exploration Group were so popular that the only night that they had free was a Monday...
