Category: Climbing
Climbing – rock, ice, mountains, boulders, etc.
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Well Kats, nice to know that its good weather in the Rockies, with an apparently fantastic season to date… Everett and Doug have been active again and sent me a picture of the North Face of Mt Stanley, taken from Mt Whymper, opposite, which they climbed today. Stanley is the face furthest right (the great …
Saturday, phone rings, it`s Clive. “Forecast’s poor for tomorrow so we’re off to Dovestone Tor”. Ok I’ll follow on. Two hours later I arrive to see Clive and Ganley finishing Route 1. After climbing Lancaster Flyby we moved back to the overhanging jugfest of Great Buttress (a gritstone must do) followed by two more jugfests …
Summer let us down again in the Lakes.............. with rain threatening in Langdale we headed again for Raven Crag, (close to the road) and the rain duly arrived; no sign of Gene Kelly, but better footwork from Tish as she danced up the wet rock.....................
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 …
A massive rock fall has occurred on shepherd’s crag in the vicinity of ‘Shepherd’s Gully’ and ‘Derision Groove’. My guess is that it has occurred in the last week. It certainly hadn’t occurred 2 weeks ago. The fall is from the previously overhanging, loose section immediately above the top little traverse on ‘Derision Grove’. This …
After a great weeks climbing in Chamonix, the Tuesday night meet was scheduled for Curbar (Cloggy of the Peak)...
Look forward to some good shots on these pages...
Well Kats, summer seems to have arrived...
