We intended to go to Sandbed Ghyll Crag tonight – the approach is described in the guidebook as “painfully steep but mercifully short (15 minutes)”. When we got there we realised that either the guidebook writer was having a laugh or is an Olympic standard hill walker! You can see the crag from the road – it’s miles away – vertical miles!!!
So we quickly changed plans to the adjacent Bramcrag Quarry – which really does have a quick approach, about 5 minutes. It’s not the most idilic Lakeland destination and very midgey on a still and hot summer evening (luckily we had our insect repellent spray with us. π ). But we salvaged an evening’s cragging from the certain sweaty doom of slogging up to Sandbed Ghyll…
Plus, we found lots of these amazingly small frogs hopping around the base.
‘OK Tish, you win’.
‘I promise to be good and carry all the booty in future. Now just kiss me and turn me back to Pete’
π π π π
… my prince. :love:
Prince; as in, “not the ruler of the house”? π
Of course not. I am the ruler – ahaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh!
…. that was a ruling sound noise, not a pirate sound noise. π
One of my fave routes is at Bramcrag: Blencathra Badger; it was an immaculate tho protection-free slab when I did it on my one & only visit years ago.
Named after my Parson Jack Russell terrier that got BOB at Crufts in 1991