Saturday morning saw me leaving sunny Barnsley for a damp Fisherfield campsite in Eskdale. Tent pitched a pre activity tea and cake session over which Jago the Optimistic suggested Hare Crag. A ten minute approach turned into twenty minutes wading through chest high bracken.
On arrival at the lower crag Jago spotted the route Fireball XL5, [refer to YouTube] childhood memories compelled him to give it a go. I thought its dry that’ll do for me so I led off with Nick in tow. Having completed Fireball XL5 we moved on to the Central Slabs doing part of Jugged Hare and Slab Route which led to Upper Buttress and our last route Spiked Hare.
Happy with our tally for a supposedly wet day we retired back to camp buoyed by the prospect of better forecast for Sunday, NO CHANCE!
Boris, Laetitia, and I visited Hare Crag on one of my 3 aspirant FRCC membership meets. Now that was a while ago! Since then I both finished joining the FRCC (a feat that, according to Boris, takes longer to achieve than qualifying as a medical doctor) and resigned my membership! 😈
On another point, it’s amazing how the weather was so different out west. We had rain on Saturday while we were on Helvellyn, and we had a little sunshine on Sunday in Borrowdale where we climbed at Quayfoot Buttress. Quayfoot was a mistake though, the rock was very damp and slippy – all very scary!
We were in Borrowdale too – pity we missed meeting in a caff
Yeah, would have been good to see you guys – were you on your ‘tea shop’ run?
Actually Boris’ words were ‘brain surgeon’
Hare rock is always good. Its been my salvation many a time.