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From L'Enclume, Les Fiz
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From Five Peaks in Four Days in the Monta Rosa Group
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From Autumn Sunshine
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From Down to the Sea
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From The best days are never planned
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From Diedro UBSA
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From Gimmer
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From My Dad's Birthday and Debauchery...
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From SMC Meet at RLH
Category: Climbing
Climbing – rock, ice, mountains, boulders, etc.
Sub-categorised for finer classification…
This weekend we took advantage of some reasonably priced flights and took a trip to Chamonix.
We spent four wonderful days with climbing in the Monte Rosa group. We set out with three of my climbing partners and our goal was to bag the most possible peaks. We departed from Staffal and since the lifts don’t operate any more we had to climb all the 12km and 1800m altitude up to …
Despite the wonderful autumn sunshine it was easy to tell that the weather has consisted of pretty much endless rain for the past several months - the cracks of the main wall of Trowbarrow Quarry were running with water!
Six Barnsley diehards set off to Cornwall in less than perfect weather with a met office promise of worse to come.
The weather forecast wasn’t great but I decided to go ahead with my planned trip to the Lakes with the most hardy of my friends, the others having bailed out.
The Penon de Ifac dominates Calpe, Costa Blanca, and Diedro UBSA is the classic route on the vast south face.
The forecast was for sun and Astrid had called to say she had a pass out.
… all in the same weekend.
While the BBC confidently proclaimed what wonderful sunny weather we would all be having at the weekend, in Cumbria it was drizzling, foggy, and damp. Why do those dim witted Londoners regularly fail to see beyond the end of their noses?
