Rainy Stanage
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
Horseshoe Quarry
Le Chapeau
Joux
CC Aspirants Meet, Castell Helen
Gloucester Road, London
Humphrey Head
Derwent Water BBQ
Prana
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We waited patiently in the driving rain, sheltering under a rocky overhang. We could see the distant breaks in the clouds, and yes we were rewarded with dry weather...
The weather turned out far better than we'd expected, so after some discussion drinking tea in Longlands Café, a trip to Horseshoe Quarry was quickly organised before Laetitia had to rush off to the CC committee meeting in Grindleford. Leaving Paul and I to carry on climbing in the sun...
Another sunny day in the Chamonix valley, and another chance to get some cragging done while Britain suffered in the floods...
Checking out a new venue recommended by Ian, La Joux, just outside Chamonix was fun. Although, being next to a mountain stream and pasture ensured that the monster horse flies ate more of our blood than we ate French bread and cheese at lunch time...
We were super lucky at this year's CC Aspirant members meet - the weather forecast looked poor. Whilst many headed for the reliability of Tremadog, we chose wisely and went to a sunny and dry (but a little windy) Anglesey to visit Castell Helen. Sea cliff adventure climbing - exciting...
Another week at work, another opportunity to sample some of London's eateries! However, this week I was joined by Laetitia, Dave and Justin...
We'd gone down to the Cark Drop Zone to see if we could do some sky diving there; it was shut...
To round off an excellent day, except for hurting my thumb, we enjoyed an awesome BBQ on the shore of Derwent water...
Today's great plan was to give Grand Alliance (the ultra classic E4 of Black Crag, Borrowdale) a shot...