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Williamson’s Monument (Not)
Dave and Laetitia at our faux monument We’ve lived in the Kentmere valley for years and have never walked up to the interestingly named Williamson’s Monument… Today (after a morning of yet more rain and some essential gardening chores) we (Dave E, Laetitia and Pete) took the opportunity to walk up to the “monument”. The …
Grey Wife Cave
This weekend, I have not only learnt the delights of Bar Pot and Grey Wife, but also, how committed and absolutely crazy my friend Colin is. Seriously, this man is nutty. Caving is one thing, cave diving is another thing. However cave diving in Grey Wife is a completely different matter. The amount of effort …
Bar Pot
The plan for the weekend involved three choices for the Saturday. We (Rach and Colin) ended up taking the second choice which was Bar Pot, one of the simpler entrances into the Gaping Gill system. After a quick walk up to the entrance we dropped down pitch one (the photo is Rach half way down), …
Warton Warriors
At 9am it was gloriously sunny, at 9.30 it was getting decidedly over-cast, at 10am it was quite cool. We decided a strategic journey south would give us a better opportunity to do some climbing… Earlier in the year (see this) we had tried Warton quarry, but the bird (Peregrine) ban prevented climbing. We checked …
Black Darter
Black Darter Dragonfly While Laetitia and I were are Warton Quarry today I got a chance to get really close to and photograph this Black Darter (Sympetrum danae) dragonfly. 🙂 Well, I’m pretty sure it’s a Black Darter – I’m no dragonfly expert! 😕 Correction; it’s a Common Darter, see comments below…
Birthday Celebrations
Anna, Sarah and Susan all have birthdays around this time of year, so Andy organised a celebration dinner at the fantastic Hesket Newmarket drinking hole, The Old Crown (apparently Prince Charles’ favourite rural real ale pub!). Fine beer, fine food, and fine company. The birthday girls celebrating in style
Amphitheatre Buttress
Dave & Fiona on the walk from Ogwen to Craig Yr Ysfa Sunday’s weather wasn’t quite as sunny as forecast, but that wasn’t gonna get in the way of our planned adventure up to Craig Yr Ysfa to show Dave & Fiona up the awesome mountaineering classic – Amphitheatre Buttress… We started late, so we …
Carreg Wastad
The joint CC, FRCC bank holiday meet at Ynys Ettws was a great social event. But sadly only two FRCC members (who are also CC members) turned up. A good job the CC made a better contribution 😉 … We enjoyed Saturday at Carreg Wastad, just opposite the hut, allowing a rapid descent to ply …