Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
Ian and I met up in Chapel Stile with plan A being a trip to Gimmer – the weather in the morning had been wall to wall blue skies. But no, not for us, as I drove down the Langdale road it was raining! But we soldiered on and changed to plan B, Raven Crag… …
The combination of the weather forecast and the actual weather messed up all our plans for climbing this Friday, Saturday and Sunday! That is until we got up to Brant Fell for a bit of a walk to work up an appetite for Sunday dinner with some fresh air and the wonderful view of Lake …
We’d planned a day up high today after our little bit of acclimatisation yesterday. But as luck would have it Laetitia has caught a cold! So, to save the day Paul & Pete hired some big hitter downhill mountain bikes and caught the ski lift to the top of the Col de Balme! The top …
After waking up to a beautiful morning, late as usual, I was keen to get out after two days cooped up in the apartment. After a hasty breakfast, we (Paul, Laetitia and Pete; Boris went to climb some ice somewhere on the glacier) drove to the train station to grab a train up to Montenvers. …
Yes this slab (sorry, wall, Terry) was “Grande” and great fun too. Although I think we got off route a bit at one point finding ourselves in the middle of very blank slab some way above the last protection! But that isn’t surprising, we had no guidebook, just Paul’s vague recollection of the route from …
Paul and Boris We said we’d get back to Le Chapeau (it was good last time) – and today the poor forecast coupled with our forgetting the guidebook meant we needed a plan B; Chapeau… Paul, Boris, Laetitia and Pete grabbed four excellent granite slab routes before today’s thunderstorms started. Testing moves on a 6c …
The weather forecast caught us out and delivered yet more rain instead of the dry sunny spells promised, so we ended up passing on the climbing option. Doh! It’s a good job there are plenty of efficient mountain streams in the Lakes or else I’m sure we’d be under feet of water by now. When …
There’s nothing like catching the best weather of the week. Actually, with all the rain so far this month (and yet more forecast), probably the best weather of the month! And then enjoying the late evening sunshine at Castle Rock with a couple of friends… It’s lucky that this week’s work venue has allowed me …
We waited patiently in the driving rain, sheltering under a rocky overhang. We could see the distant breaks in the clouds, and yes we were rewarded with dry weather! The CC Vice Presidents, Laetitia and Pete (Finklaire), went off to enthusiastically climb every classic route on Stanage within 5 minutes walk of our rain shelter …