Tarn Crag, Longsleddale, Pinnacle Ridge
Doom’s Retreat
Surprise
Sailing on the Mersey
You mean you go without a guide?
Lovely Limestone
Windgather and the Roaches
Diane’s 1st Mountain
Terry takes us to ‘Jack Scout Crag’
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After a sedentary weekend at the Kendal Film Festival, I felt the urge for a good 'blast' on Tuesday. Nothing too far away, with the short days, and Longsleddale came to mind...
In the back end of the Devils Arse show cave (formally known as Peak Cavern) lies Doom's Retreat. Reached by diving through Ink Sump it has been the site of a great deal of digging effort by several teams of diggers over many years...
It's a small world, and the climbing fraternity is even smaller...
Nick's got a big boat. A very lovely big boat. And today he let me and Pete come on board and help crew for a race on the Mersey...
We don't class ourselves as novice cavers anymore, so we thought we should take a trip underground on our own. Rachel knows half of Oxlow Cavern pretty well, having been there several times to dig, so we thought we'd go and discover the other half...
Ewbank Scar is a fine piece of limestone. No caves visible though....
The boulderers tell us that zero deg C is best for friction. Well, although Tuesday dawned beautiful and clear, it was in fact fff..ing fffreezing, with a wind chill too. So, maybe Windgather wasn't a good choice...
After my mum's successful ascent of Helvellyn a few months before, my sister Diane decided to follow in our footsteps and go on her first ever walk in the Cumbrian Fells...
Terry has been to Jack Scout crag before and it seemed like a good venue following the fireworks and booze of the night before...