After yesterday’s outing on limestone, it was back to Borrowdale where we thought we might try a route on Walla Crag.
I doubt that more than ten people a year bother to go up to the crag every year. Path ….. ???? what path???
Pete led the way and his sense of direction was at its most precise……..
Eventually though we did find the crag. Typical of these unfrequented places it was damp and mossy at the bottom, but looked more promising higher up. We chose White Buttress an “airy” VS, we left Kelda guarding the rucsacks and set off (the chance of anyone finding and stealing the sacks was slim). The route was great, after a mossy start, and we all enjoyed it and pulled through a heathery/ferny fringe into a jungle of indescribable proportions.
We had no chance of finding the descent path, so abbed down and made a hasty descent down through the mossy overgrown woods and eventually came across the car park.
We looked back….. the crag was knowhere to be seen. Had it been there at all, or had we imagined it all?
We found the cafe though… and look at this fab carrot cake…. Yum
Here’s another shot of Anna on the “airy” crux of the route…
I could have told you years ago that the way up to Walla crag was atrocious and that the routes were mossy to start 🙄
Nobody had been there for years even then 😀 Wot time were you at the caf ❓ :yum: :yum:
Well, we went to the Grange café at about 11.30 to wait for the sun to get round onto the crags (and for Anna to do some hut custodial duties at the Old School House)… Then, after the adventure at Walla Crag, we went to Shepherds Café at about 5 for the cake (and tea) you see above! 😉 A day where we spent more time at the café than the crag! We were tired…
PS. Even with your beta on Walla Crag approaches Terry I’d still have wanted to go and visit; one needs to have these experiences yourself!
Hallucinatory mushrooms – maybe but definitely not magic! From the pic it looks like a Bolete of some kind difficult to tell without seeing the underside, did it have gills or pores or spines underneath? Could be a Cep in which case whole fields of them would definitely be worth another look 😛
I hope you don’t think we’re going back up there to check the gills!!! But next time we see mushrooms we will definitely have to check underneath.