Gloucester Road, London
Month: June 2007
Humphrey Head
P8
Hot at Helm Crag
Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon
The boys go west
Derwent Water BBQ
Prana
Magnum Force……………
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Another week at work, another opportunity to sample some of London's eateries! However, this week I was joined by Laetitia, Dave and Justin...
We'd gone down to the Cark Drop Zone to see if we could do some sky diving there; it was shut...
Marcus wanted to go and have a look at sump six in P8 (Jackpot) in Derbyshire. Several years ago he did some work towards sump ten but had always by-passed sump six which branches off between sumps five and seven, both of which drain into six. With sump six being the lowest point in what is known as the downstream sumps (one to ten) it offers a good digging potential...
Pete builds a stone wall for the little people of Helm crag. We did climb aswell though........
June 9th-10th was the Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon. Four of us embarked to Scotland for the weekend; Richard and John and Pete and I. We were all to embark on the C class .... 45 k of orienteering, carrying everything required for the night...
Having resigned myself to another weekend of inactivity due to a sore and swollen ankle and after a text from Strong Shane "wanna climb tomorrow" I thought why not! So after more texts S Shane suggested Wilton, Lancashire's answer to Millstone...
To round off an excellent day, except for hurting my thumb, we enjoyed an awesome BBQ on the shore of Derwent water...
Today's great plan was to give Grand Alliance (the ultra classic E4 of Black Crag, Borrowdale) a shot...
After a hot day at Black crag, what more could we want..... yes magnums delivered courtesy of Jon.... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.