Middlefell Buttress
Wet & Windy at Brackenclose
Freezing Gimmer ?
Gosh! Tree Climbing…
Peregrine 1, Climbers 0
Crawling with Giants
Cromhall, equipment testing
Greatend
Summer ends in Langdale
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A weekend with Aylesbury Climbing Club at Little Langdale had been committed to when the weather forecast was still pretty good so we were a little disapointed as the week went on and the forecast gradually got worse & worse...
I was hosting the CC meet at the FRCC hut in Wasdale, Brackenclose, and had been looking forward for months to doing Botterill's Slab...
In another day of two halves Paul and I set off early (ish) for Gimmer Crag, hoping optimistically to catch some sun...
I bet you think the only route you have to climb a tree for is North Crag Eliminate?
Paul and I thought we'd get up to Raven Crag Thirlmere to tick off Totalitarian. But...
A nice weather forecast so Phil, Fiona & I headed off to Dow Crag for a climb up Giants Crawl only a Diff but two stars and I thought enough of a challeng for my first attempt at managing two seconds on a multi-pitch climb...
In which three go for a dive and suffer different levels of interest.
Another sunny day so we hot footed it up to Greatend in Borrowdale. The last time we went there it was very overgrown and a loose boulder on Banzai Pipeline persuaded us to abseil down. However, "mandy" had posted a message telling us that there had been some serious gardening going on so we decided we should investigate...
At 1.46pm on Sunday afternoon a bitter cold wind heralded the start of the coming winter.........brrrrrrrrrr!