Trowbarrow on Wednesday and Trow Gill today. What’s a Trow?
We thought the weather might be better towards the east, so we chose Yorkshire Limestone today. We opted for Trow Gill to try out some of the sport routes.
It was quite busy. There were 30+ climbers there, with a constant stream of walkers going past on their way (presumably) up Ingleborough. Also, something familiar to us, a steady flow of cavers/potholers on their way to one of the Gaping Ghyll entrances passed by. It’s five years since we last did Wades Entrance, our favourite way into GG, but in total we must have walked up that path kited out in our caving PVC boiler suits dozens of times.
Anyway, back to the climbing, luckily most people were climbing routes much harder than we could attempt, leaving the easier ones free for us…
We managed four routes before Pete fell off and hurt his finger, and before I got too cold.
It’s a good venue, although there isn’t much there for me to lead right now, but I think with a bit of practice on the bravery front I’ll find a few more routes there for me.
A Trow is a sort of fishing boat, I think. I’ve visited a pub called the Llandogger Trow, which was by the waterside in Cornwall somewhere!
How strange. I wonder if there is another meaning. Unless there is a secret fishing location near Trow Gill, and Trowbarrow.
Why no picture of the injured finger?
Well, you know, it’s one of those injuries that looks reeeeeaaaaallllly small, but hurts a lot! π
It’s a man-injury; a life threatening graze! π
You seem prone to injured fingers, Pete π
Maybe the sea did come as far as Trowbarrow at one time β It is very low-lying around there and close to the sea-side viz Jack Scout Crag π‘