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From April Powder!
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From Contamine - Cloudy Skiing
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From Holme Fell Scramble and Letterboxing
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From The Climbers' Club AGM, aka
"The Face of Adventure Weekend Party"
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From The Pumpkin, Creag Meagaidh
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From Burfday pressies & Cake,
roll-on Rock Climbing season...
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From Burfday Powder
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
A fresh dump of deep powder at this time of year is welcome for resort skiing, but not so welcome for ski touring!
As a warm up for what should be a week of ski touring Ian, Chris, and I headed up on to the pistes at Les Contamine. Ian and Chris had already had a day skiing, but I needed a few runs to help remind the legs what do with skis attached!
The scramble up the west ridge of Raven Crag, leading up on to Holme Fell, is a lovely easy way to gain height. Perfect to blow the cobwebs out of our heads following last night’s party…
The Climbers’ Club AGM has for me been traditionally a great opportunity to meet up with friends, enjoy a slap up dinner, and get involved helping set the direction of those that manage the club
It’s a long way to the West Highlands, even from the Lakes. However, with such a great weather forecast and the recent days of cold weather the conditions looked awesome, so the long drive and not inconsiderable fuel costs was well worth considering. But we wanted to go somewhere new to us – Creag Meagaidh …
Did you know that in the UK you can use your mobile phone's SMS text messaging to summon help from the emergency services?
A couple of last images from Chamonix… It’s always good to remember good times, and the skiing this year in Chamonix and Courmayeur was awesome, really awesome! So much powder!
Today is Cumbria Day, hoorah! And amongst the noise that brings is a mini-celebration that accompanies the Cumbrian flag coming to Westminster…
We used the Lizard-Spock Expansion of the classic rock-paper-scissors game to decide where to go and play in the deepening powder on our birthday celebration day. Well, actually we used the game to decide who got to choose the venue… Laetitia won, and Les Grands Montets was chosen.
