Run for the hills…
Author: Laetitia
Shop + Run, how many pounds can we lose?
Les Houches
Chamonix + Contamine, a broken day
A Fine Day at Shepherds
Birthday Ice
Rjukan Upper Gorge
Catching up in Skipton
Red Rocks Climbing
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There's only 9 months until the Pudding Race and we need some serious training...
A nice late start for me, I met Anna and Ian in Keswick at 12.30 for some serious shopping.
Chamonix ended up being quite expensive: I left my super red lunch box on the plane (and no one handed it in, so someone's knicked it! Or they did a controlled explosion on it - nothing on the news though, so maybe not); broken back tooth; broken rucksack...
We crunched our breakfast this morning - un pain avec abricot confiture - and something crunched harder than I expected. I'd broken my tooth! But nothing was going to stop play today...
To combat the post holiday blues we decided to take advantage of the fantastic weather. I didn't fancy a long walk in so a trip up to Borrowdale was required. We drove through glorious sunshine, but when we got to Keswick the valley was engulfed in thick fog...
Pete woke up this morning another year older, but definitely not another year wiser. He was tasked with wearing his birthday hat all day...
Terry had a plan. It had to be secret, because there is only room for two teams. A quick exchange of texts and we agreed to meet at 9.30-ish. Me and Pete were going to climb Nye Vermorkfoss, and Terry and Bernie were going to climb Bakveien...
Val is in the UK, and what great weather has welcomed her? Another wet and miserable day, so there was nothing for it but to catch up in Skipton...
After a day of short bolted routes, we decided to go back to the more fun traditional multi pitch climbs, but we would stick to ones in the sun...