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Wednesday 30 April 2014

Here comes the warm rock...

April 29th
Shepherds Crag
Brown Slabs Face (NB)
Brown Slabs Crack (Original) (AT both pitches)
Brown Slabs Arete - Right Side (PM)

Made the most of the one sunny day this week
Three big single(*) pitches - one each
Plan involved other routes but those slabs are magnetic!
Lots of fine open and low stress climbing - just the job!
In good company (chatted with Paul Ross - 1st ascent "Adam" and "Conclusion" - both 1955)

Brown Slabs
Big lump on left


NB going well


PM feels the warming rock

AT in fine position on the scoop before the delicate traverse back to the tree belay.

The 4c line follows the leaning crack and glassy rock immediately right
(one of these days...)



This option more like 4a

NB romps it

Looking back across to the thin finger traverse

An eyrie little spot
(*) took belay, seemed logical

Leading out on P2

PM heads arete-wards

Looked at CDM
Too weary for a pumpy route

Looked at Ant Highway, started to rain
Decamped to the H&F.....

Tesselations by Derwentwater



Paul Ross leading on Kern Knotts
1954
(c) Paul Ross UKC


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