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From Chamonix Dinosaurs
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From Autumn Sunshine
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From East Cumbria Search Panel
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From SMC Meet at RLH
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From Shutter Renovation
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From Eperon Nord, North West slabs of
Aiguille du Peigne
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From At last a day without paint - L'ile aux Razmokets
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
Who’d have though there were dinosaurs in Chamonix!
Despite the wonderful autumn sunshine it was easy to tell that the weather has consisted of pretty much endless rain for the past several months - the cracks of the main wall of Trowbarrow Quarry were running with water!
I don’t understand imperial measurements: and typically the Americans add extra levels of screwiness!
Sunday was my second day out training with the Kendal Mountain Rescue Team. The training was a joint exercise led by Penrith – the East Cumbria Search Panel…
While the BBC confidently proclaimed what wonderful sunny weather we would all be having at the weekend, in Cumbria it was drizzling, foggy, and damp. Why do those dim witted Londoners regularly fail to see beyond the end of their noses?
With her keen eye for decoration Laetitia had noticed (i.e. nagged me about 😉 ) the weathered state (splitting wood and flaking paint 🙁 ) of our shutters. So, being a two-man job lifting the shutters off, and in particular back on to, their hinges I recruited a decorating professional
While Ian and I waited for Laetitia and Astrid to finish their route on the Aiguille Rouge, sitting on a boulder chatting about this and that, we realised that within just a few metres of where we were sat was an incredible array of alpine flowers.
We left Chamonix early and arrived at the Aiguille du Plan with frost still covering the grass – the north facing cliff we’d selected for today’s adventures was going to be cold!
After what seemed like endless days of scraping, sanding, painting, and more painting of the apartment’s shutters [more on that latter with before and after pictures] Ian and I finally got out to do some climbing…
