The Fairfield Horseshoe
A ‘Grand’ Day Out
A Day on Gandalf…!
An enforced day off…!
Three Swallows makes the Summer
Bare Blabaer
Lofoten Islands
A Thorn Amongst Roses
BMC Lakes Festival of Climbing
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This weekend Anna and I joined Andy, Sabiene and Arthur in Langdale, where they are staying this week in a small cottage. Saturday found us on the Fairfield Horseshoe.
So, same location, Black Crag, Borrowdale, very similar weather, warm and sunny. Perfect for pushing the boat out and seeing what happens.
Today we went climbing - wall to wall blue sky...
No climbing today due to a morning of precipitation (a note for Terry here: precipitation is different to rain; it never rains in Lofoten)...
After our neighbour's Blue Tits had fledged, we thought we'd ended our own "Springwatch", but hidden in an outhouse, I found 3 pleading gapes!!!
Today we tackled another of the top 50 routes from the guidebook - Bare Blabaer at Djupfjord. This is a very popular slab and crack climb approached by a beautiful walk...
We've arrived in the Lofoten Islands, or perhaps their other name is more fitting, the Magic Islands! What an amazing place - awesome granite islands seemingly straight out of the sea in the middle of nowhere...
It need not concern us here how Terry came to be invited on Reg Pillinger's 'Private' meet at the Downes Hut for those who had made guidebook contributions over the years...
This weekend was the BMC supported Lakes Festival of Climbing in the Duddon Valley...