Cub Scouts always do their best
Think of others before themselves
And get a good route in every week.
The weather window stayed open so three chaps out west, last week Borrowdale so looking for an amenable day in Langdale, settled on Upper Scout Crag as the venue that fits the bill. Drive via Ambleside (thwarted by closure of Red Bank) took well over two hours (cf return via Kendal about 1hr 50m). New half ropes made debut - very photogenic.....
The imaginatively name Routes 1 and 2 were duly dispatched, each in two pitches
NB making good progress on Route 1
PM follows up into the blue
Perfect climbing weather
AT takes a cheerful belay in a great spot
Solid enough but more scope a bit higher up
PM out-shades
all comers
Backdrop magnificent also
AT on Route 2 P1
No useful gear but steady climbing at V Diff
NB tackles the crux of all today's climbing
(guidebook P3 on Route 2, severe in my book)
PM follows in great style also, shaping like the Binks.
The patio bar at the NDG exerts its inevitable gravity
and drags us down off the crag
Route 2 on left
White Ghyll looms top left, the notch of Slip Knot clearly visible
Got to get that done! (again)
Rockin drive home with thanks to a Rolling Stone Magazine best 500 songs
Some Stones, Zep, Beach Boys, Freda Payne, Al Green, Bob Marley inter alia all great
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