Girls’ Day Out
Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
Gimmer; No, it’s White Ghyll
Paul on Ethics of War We set off for Gimmer Crag in Langdale today – it was sunny, and the south facing buttress seemed like a good option. Fifteen minutes from the car we came over a rise and felt the teeth of the cold northerly wind! Gimmer was going to be cold! A quick …
Side Pike, Langdale
It was a lovely sunny evening, so I chose the coldest, windiest, south east facing crag I could find – doh! I froze while Pete struggled up a dirty 2 star HVS. I don’t think it gets much traffic. I didn’t follow – my hands were frozen – so Pete had to abseil down. Oh …
What rain!
Having seen Friday’s forecast for the weekend I decided to lay turf on Saturday and risk climbing on grit between the predicted showers on Sunday. Sunday dawned dry and bright so we headed off to Gardoms. Come 4 pm after several classic routes, sore fingers and weary arms brought our day to a close; not …
Meteorological Mistake!
Corvus
It was wet today! So wet that we almost stayed home and looked out of the windows wishing we were more dedicated… Are we just fair weather climbers? Then we remembered what fun we had on Liewedd in January! Yes we are dedicated! We quickly got our packs together and headed to Borrowdale, our target, …
Dodging the Rain at Wharncliffe
Grit, Limestone and Paul’s Pink Bike
Cracked Actor, Trowbarrow
After two days of hard gardening it was time to do some hard climbing to justify calling ourselves climbers! But with a poor holiday forecast (thundery showers!), where to go? The answer, the south facing sheltered limestone of Trowbarrow. We’ve been here once before to tick the easier classics Jean Jeanie (VS) and Assagai (HVS). …