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Sunday, 26 April 2015
Saturday, 25 April 2015
Scouts Honour
Wednesday 22nd April
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
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
Thursday, 16 April 2015
Borrowdale Sport Plan
Rarely seen out together, these two classics. Is this what they mean by sport climbing?
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AT at FB hooking up with NB and PM fresh from BA and SD
(Need a BA in TLAs to get all that)
Pinging day out west.
Logistics meant a later start on first route at Wodens at 12.30. A couple of severes then a walk back to Quayfoot Buttress for the sub classic VDiff of the crag. So all the ingredients for BORROWDALE MULTICRAG...! NB and AT shared the stress of two pretty greasy pitches on QB but all team members up in good order - grade for the day running at about 4b in the conditions we reckon.
NB about to top out on Wimpey Way
AT puzzling the initial problem moves
Working Woden's Face
A short steepening on the very amenable slabby wall
PM finding some early season form
NB followed direct over the bulky perched block for a bit of sport
Then on to Quayfoot Buttress
First pitch initially dry but the finishing groove of P2 rather dripping.(no sign of the arete described in the guide)
NB catching some rays on belay top of P2.......
.....and looks on as AT tries to mask rising enthusiasm for the wet rock just round this corner
Skiddaw lofts mightily in the distance.
All in all two gripping pitches somewhat outside the VDIFF envelope
AT at FB hooking up with NB and PM fresh from BA and SD
(Need a BA in TLAs to get all that)
Pinging day out west.
Logistics meant a later start on first route at Wodens at 12.30. A couple of severes then a walk back to Quayfoot Buttress for the sub classic VDiff of the crag. So all the ingredients for BORROWDALE MULTICRAG...! NB and AT shared the stress of two pretty greasy pitches on QB but all team members up in good order - grade for the day running at about 4b in the conditions we reckon.
NB about to top out on Wimpey Way
AT puzzling the initial problem moves
Working Woden's Face
A short steepening on the very amenable slabby wall
PM finding some early season form
NB followed direct over the bulky perched block for a bit of sport
Then on to Quayfoot Buttress
First pitch initially dry but the finishing groove of P2 rather dripping.(no sign of the arete described in the guide)
NB catching some rays on belay top of P2.......
.....and looks on as AT tries to mask rising enthusiasm for the wet rock just round this corner
Skiddaw lofts mightily in the distance.
All in all two gripping pitches somewhat outside the VDIFF envelope
Fast drive back
Friday, 10 April 2015
Easter Crag
Thursday April 9th
The weather has been lovely all week, and the window stayed open long enough for this years first major outside effort. Original plan (AT) suggested a mountaineering day up at Tarn Crag Langdale, but woke up feeling more like a day with more climbing than walking and some user friendly routes to get re-oriented to outside games. So in keeping with these preferences stopped off instead at:
Castle Rock of Triermain
A pleasant circuit
Crag got very busy pm
NB loads up the crag with gear and gets ready to solve the finishing corner's problem moves.
AT leaves the gangway and heads for an early belay
Unknown climber below the crux on Kleine Rinne (VS4b)
NB gets some beta...
Another party arrives
It is Easter after all
An excellent start to the new season
The weather has been lovely all week, and the window stayed open long enough for this years first major outside effort. Original plan (AT) suggested a mountaineering day up at Tarn Crag Langdale, but woke up feeling more like a day with more climbing than walking and some user friendly routes to get re-oriented to outside games. So in keeping with these preferences stopped off instead at:
Castle Rock of Triermain
Crag got very busy pm
NB loads up the crag with gear and gets ready to solve the finishing corner's problem moves.
AT leaves the gangway and heads for an early belay
Unknown climber below the crux on Kleine Rinne (VS4b)
NB gets some beta...
Another party arrives
It is Easter after all
An excellent start to the new season
Open Top TT tunes
Thursday, 26 March 2015
Wednesday, 11 March 2015
Saltburn Spring for a day
Tuesday 10th
After Monday's grim weather headed east for a bimble
Saltburn delivers the goods as usual
Water powered cableway in action
Light lunch here in Rapps Cafe - very good
Hot sun in window seat
Pretty raw out above the sea front.
Good to get out, Wednesday turned out dreadful
After Monday's grim weather headed east for a bimble
Saltburn delivers the goods as usual
Water powered cableway in action
Light lunch here in Rapps Cafe - very good
Hot sun in window seat
Pretty raw out above the sea front.
Good to get out, Wednesday turned out dreadful
Saturday, 7 March 2015
More Wall Play
CB said he thought I am now climbing at the limit of my gullibility.....
NB cracks up a 6a
CB floats up something proper 'ard
NB cracks up a 6a
CB floats up something proper 'ard
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