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From Llanberis Tradfest Weekend
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From Brilliant Weather = Lots of Adventures
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From Clogwyn y Grochan
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From Scottish Canoeing - Balquhidder
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From Great Close Scar
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From The First Cuckoo of Spring (oh, and Quayfoot Buttress)
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From Yorkshire Three Peaks
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From Lower Falcon Crag
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From North Face Trail & Bluebells
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
Last weekend was the Llanberis Tradfest – a celebration of traditional climbing based in North Wales’ Llanberis Pass. The event was laid on through a collaboration between DMM, The Climbers’ Club, and V12 with additional support from Scarpa and The North Face.
The weather this past week has been glorious! In between working and gardening I have tried my hardest to get out and enjoy it…
After providing support and photographic services to Laetitia and Vicky at the Great North Swim in Windermere on Saturday morning it was time for me to high-tail it to North Wales for a CC committee meeting.
We’ve been looking forward to the multi-day canoeing trip in Scotland with our friends Paul and Lisa for ages. We’d planned the trip back in February and this past weekend we finally set off on our new adventure.
Last weekend we went across to Yorkshire to sample more rock climbing on the lovely limestone crags. We’d chosen Great Close Scar right next to Malham Tarn.
We had plans to get several household chores, gardening, and decorating jobs done over the bank holiday weekend. This seemed like a perfect plan as the weather forecast was less than hopefully.
On Saturday, in glorious summer sunshine, I was trekking around the 39 kilometre classic Yorkshire Three Peaks circuit with a charity group (Tiny Tickers) of 22 walkers. I’ve never done the “Y3P” as a single expedition before. Although clearly I’ve wandered around all of the segments of this route previously either on shorter walks, climbing, …
Wednesday was the first of this summer’s CC evening climbing meets in the Lakes. Thankfully the weather was perfect – sunny, warm, and of course dry. Hooray! Strangely with such lovely conditions only a select gang bothered to turn up. I wonder if it was the choice of venue? Lower Falcon Crag in Borrowdale is …
Sneaking a couple of hours of mountain biking between the showers in Grisedale Forest on the North Face Mountain Bike Trail…
