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 …
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 …
The forecast was atrocious, and of course wildly inaccurate!
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, …
Dave was volunteered by work (yes, it was a jolly) to stand by Long Churn Cave, to help a film crew in a helicopter locate Upper Long Churn cave for the forthcoming BBC series on caving with Kate Humble and some other guy...
Richard Dearden and I embarked on the mini- Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon on Thursday. This event was organised as part of the Keswick Mountain Festival; starting from near Lattrig in Keswick, the idea was to find as many of the 19 control as possible in 4 hours. These were spread throughout the valley and hills …
Sunday dawned dry - a bonus, it was supposed to rain! But with a forecast for rain from the south around lunch time we opted for a trip to Paul's local crag, Wharncliffe...
Paul and I had planned a trip to Scotland, but the weather forecast was very poor. Such a shame after the weeks of sunny weather we've been having recently. But, not to be deprived of our sport completely I headed down to the Peak to join Paul for some climbing on my least favoured rock; Grit! It seems to me that grit is either steep and strenuous or unprotected...
Dave gives his body to a good cause for a few hours.
