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From Another Dry Lakeland Bank Holiday
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From Amazing Lakeland Bank Holiday Weather
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From Springtime France
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From Mini New Year Break in Chamonix
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From A Chamonix Painting Expedition
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From Autumnal Shepherds
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From September Sunshine
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From Squamish and Vancouver
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From Whitehorse and Yukon Rock
Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
After an amazing start to the summer weather in May and early June, July and August have been quite disappointing really. More wet, grey, and disappointing weather days than the proper summer sunshine we had hoped for. 🙁 However, despite that we’ve been out and about on the Lakeland crags a fair bit. 🙂 Then, …
The weather this past bank holiday has been amazing in the Lake District. In fact the whole of the North West has been enjoying a prolonged period of settled sunny weather. 😀 Especially nice that, in an unusual turn around of the normal way of things, the South East has been getting rained on. 😉
We’re recently back from a couple of weeks in France, what an amazing (and weird?) series of spring weather conditions we had though…
The snow conditions were looking very poor in Chamonix with the endless sunshine in the Alps. The Atlantic frontal systems that should have been delivering frequent snow storms were being concentrated in to torrential rain over the north west of England. However, it still seemed like a better option than watching that endless rain in …
Time to Work Last week Ian and I went to the French Alps to get a load of apartment maintenance work done. The lounge area got a complete floor-to-ceiling paint job (there was a nasty crack in the ceiling to repair too), and Ian’s kitchen area got a new worktop… Here’s a shot of the …
We met up with Helen and Mo at Shepherds today.
Black Crag – Camless Last week my great pal Boris was visiting the Lakes and we stole a couple of days to get Boris back on the rock… On the first day we went to Wallowbarrow in the Duddon valley for a gentle reintroduction to climbing rocks. I didn’t get any pictures – it was …
After a short stay in Whitehorse it was time to catch our flight back to Vancouver and head out to Squamish.
Whitehorse is the last bit of normal civilisation we passed through on the way out the Cirque of the Unclimbables, and it feels like it, with the qualities one associates with an old style frontier town.
