The boulderers tell us that zero deg C is best for friction. Well, although Tuesday dawned beautiful and clear, it was in fact fff..ing fffreezing, with a wind chill too. So, maybe Windgather wasn’t a good choice, with just a hint of slippiness as well? We took photo opportunities, to emulate the Rockfax shot (p114), …
After my mum’s successful ascent of Helvellyn a few months before, my sister Diane decided to follow in our footsteps and go on her first ever walk in the Cumbrian Fells. I thought what better introduction could there be than a scramble along Halls Fell ridge on Blencathra. Andy, Brian, my mum Dorothy, Diane & …
The team spread out on Jack Scout Crag in the November sunshine. 😀 Terry has been to Jack Scout crag before and it seemed like a good venue following the fireworks and booze of the evening before. A sunny aspect, short lines and something for everyone, even me with my injured tendon – no climbing …
:star: Our firework party is an annual event… :star: Check out the “small” firework Sabiene came with…
The boys contemplate turning this wheel at Kentmere reservoir and flooding Kendal! Paul, Dave, Laetitia & Pete enjoyed a day out doing the famous ridge walk, the Kentmere Horseshoe, today. Having been round this classic walk a few times before (it being our local valley), we did a counter clockwise circuit for a change and …
Last year we collected a load of sloe berries to make some amazingly tasty sloe gin (check here for that). In fact it was so tasty that we’ve done the same again this year! Although with the wet summer this year the berries were much fatter. Yee ha, should be even tastier!!! We are much …
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Sunday morning was so wet in Ormskirk that Chris and I called off our trip to the Lakes. My powers of alchemy, over the weather, were obviously failing (like everything else!). Then, by late morning, we saw the fine weather further north, so set off for the Carnforth area and some limestone. On the way …
The BBC weather forecasters had said it would rain heavily on Sunday, but as seems usual they got it wrong for Cumbria. Instead what they meant was it would rain in London and that the band of rain would have passed through Cumbria the night before… And did it rain last night! At least the …