After the skin-full last night we got up late… Too late to do anything big, so we decided to head out to the coast so I could take Pete up some sunny rock (he was still feeling tired after yesterdays efforts and booze!). We drove out to Jack Scout Crag. The last time we’d been there was with Paul, Terry and Vicky. Pete was nursing a sore finger that time, so he hadn’t done any climbing there yet.
It was pretty quiet, with only one other team there and a few holiday makers playing in the pools of warming water and slipping around on the muddy sand. In the very far distance we saw a snake of people who looked like they were trailing across from Grange towards Morecambe…. but they seemed to turn back half way across, so I wasn’t really sure what they were doing. A quick google search at home and it seems there was a sponsored walk for Bay Search and Rescue which started in Arnside and finished at Kents Bank Train Station near Grange. There was a huge crowd and they had a perfect day for it.
The climbing was good and I was on form, for a change, but like Paul, we only managed half a Ganley. The sun was scorching, skin was burning and I was pumped after leading Pete up Victim of Life (HS 4b π ), Elusive Valentine (VS 4c π ) and then Pocket Spider (HVS 5a π ).
Short but sweet!
Approach flip-flops β
Well Tish, you are certainly following my haunts π The first time I went there was also with Frank π
All terrain action flip flops. But they did keep getting stuck on the sand. Flip ouch, flip ouch, flip ouch!
Terry – where shall we go next?
You wanna go interkirchen, oberland β
…. if only I had more holidays, and more money!