Joux
Author: Pete
Founder of Sterling Adventures!
CC Aspirants Meet, Castell Helen
Gloucester Road, London
Humphrey Head
Derwent Water BBQ
Prana
Why does Terry call us "cats"?
Planes, Trains, Tubes + Automobiles
Pumped at Freezing Trowbarrow
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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...
Terry's trip report from the Costa Durada, near Barcelona, came in 'pre-internet' form; a postcard...
Work and BA Suck! Climbing Rocks!
Well, I guess it's work that pays the bills, so it doesn't suck that much...
But British Airways do...
Laetitia, Paul and Pete were greeted by BMC signs informing us that peregrines were nesting at today's venue - Warton Quarry. Not that we needed the signs to know that the warning in the guide book about possible nesting bird restrictions was likely to be in force, there were dozens of people twitching away with massive telescopes and cameras with two foot long lenses...