We haven’t been on a hot rock bolt clipping holiday for ages, so when we heard Elsie was planning on going to Geyikbayiri near Antalya, Turkey, with her friend Koon we decided to crash their party.
The day was grey and the fells were forecasted to be covered in damp cloud so we opted for a little jogget along the route of the Lancaster to Kendal Canal.
It was still sunny on Sunday, and even warmer, and we realised we hadn’t had tea and cake for ages and ages and ages, so I decided a crag very close to a cafe was required…. Pot Scar just above Feizor.
As Haskett Smith recorded in 1894 in his Climbing in the British Isles, “… There are times even in the Lake District when the rain ceases and the sun shines, and it is then that the climber should gambol upon this crag.”
After a heavy rain shower in the early hours of Sunday morning we decided our best option to find some quick drying rock was to visit the slate quarries above Llanberis.
Whilst climbing on the beautiful coast lines of Pembroke, Lundy, Holyhead and Lofoten, I have watched sea kayakers paddling below the crags and I’ve often thought how I would love to give that a go.