The BBC spends a lot of money (our license fees) on weather forecasting! This weekend they said there’d be a good chance of rain in the North West on Saturday, and that Sunday would possibly dawn a bit grey but would rapidly improve to give clear skies, returning to the awesome summer weather of recent times in the afternoon. Of course they didn’t mention that regardless of what region they talk about, all they ever really cover is London!
However, we foolishly ignored this as we set off for Great Gable crag expecting hot weather to make the north facing high mountain crag a good proposition… It was damp, cold and miserable when we got there. Why didn’t we settle for a valley option and at least get a few routes in? Oh well, the girls enjoyed a dip in the ghyll on the way back, even though it had actually started raining by this time!