Haute Route Planning
Year: 2007
East Raven Crag, Langdale
Dalt Quarry, Borrowdale
Pavey, Langdale
Kentmere Bouldering
Even more antics on Ben Nevis
More antics on The Ben
Polldubh
Ben Nevis, Zero Gully
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It's been a while coming, but here we are back in Chamonix with the classic traverse from Chamonix to Zermatt, the Haute Route, taking up the agenda for the next week...
A very tough choice of venue today.
Lots of climbers, fickle weather, and tired legs...
We set out for Borrowdale today, wanting a short walk-in after a week that had seen us on Ben Nevis and Pavey Ark...
One of my favourite paces to climb is Pavey Ark...
After some hectic carpet laying, to make Paul's bedroom habitable for his stay with us over the Easter Bank Holiday, we headed out to see just how good some of the bouldering in Kentmere is...
I didn't want to miss out on all this adventuring on the Ben, so lucky for me Jon was keen to make the trip up north again. We left Penrith by 5.30 on Wednesday evening and made it to Fort William by 10pm. After stopping at the BP garage for a quick cup of beige coloured water that was unsuccessfully pretending to be tea, we headed for the car park that would be our place of rest for the short night ahead...
Jon and Ian enjoy the sun at the top of Orion Direct
After our long day on Ben Nevis, and with the long drive home ahead of us, we opted for the pleasant sunny rock climbing of Polldubh. The weather was more like summer than when I've been to Polldubh before in summer...
Terry and I travelled up to the Scottish Highlands this weekend having heard about the almost perfect conditions on Ben Nevis, and adding in the continuing 'bon temps' forecast, we had to go. A big route on the Ben seemed within grasp...