Warton Quarry
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
Stoney Middleton
Les Gaillands
Wet Snowdonia, Sunny Pothole
Tremadog Inspectors?
Staveley Beer Festival
Summer?
Bramcrag Quarry
Bad Weather Decision…
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Avoiding the crowds in the Lake District on a bank holiday weekend rewarded us with the whole of Warton Quarry to ourselves...
What rain? We expected heavy rain on Saturday; as we drove over Snake Pass and saw the first spots on the windscreen we thought it was gonna be as forecast - wet. Maybe a day cruising the gear shops of the Peak was ahead...
With only a few hours of play before having to leave Chamonix to fly back to the UK we took the popular option of grabbing a few routes at Les Gaillands...
We awoke to the accurately forecast rain on Sunday. Any worthwhile climbing in the hills was definitely off the agenda. But we suspected it would be dry either on Anglesey or perhaps back towards Llangollen...
Steve and I took a trip to Tremadog to check a route or two, some access descriptions and discuss the photography requirements for the new Tremadog guidebook...
After a good day at Wilton Quarry and with the glorious summer weather we decided on an impromptu BBQ. While we were finishing eating our tasty pork and apple sausages we heard some lively music (and obviously loud as it was a way off) coming from the centre of the village. Was someone having a party and had forgotten to invite us?
Has summer finally arrived?
We intended to go to Sandbed Ghyll Crag tonight - the approach is described in the guidebook as "painfully steep but mercifully short (15 minutes)"...
With a CC PSC meeting in the Wye Valley this weekend I had hoped to climb at Shorn Cliff or maybe Wintour's Leap, but the weather forecast was bad for the whole of the UK - or so we thought...