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From Brilliant Weather = Lots of Adventures
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From Clogwyn y Grochan
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From Great Close Scar
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From The First Cuckoo of Spring (oh, and Quayfoot Buttress)
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From Gimme even more Sunshine
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From Lower Falcon Crag
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From Spring Rock - Another Bravo Lapp
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From A short break to Devonshire
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From On the tourist trail at Milford Sound
Category: Climbing
Climbing – rock, ice, mountains, boulders, etc.
Sub-categorised for finer classification…
The weather this past week has been glorious! In between working and gardening I have tried my hardest to get out and enjoy it…
After providing support and photographic services to Laetitia and Vicky at the Great North Swim in Windermere on Saturday morning it was time for me to high-tail it to North Wales for a CC committee meeting.
Last weekend we went across to Yorkshire to sample more rock climbing on the lovely limestone crags. We’d chosen Great Close Scar right next to Malham Tarn.
We had plans to get several household chores, gardening, and decorating jobs done over the bank holiday weekend. This seemed like a perfect plan as the weather forecast was less than hopefully.
After exploring the some trad climbing on Tenerife a few weeks ago, it seemed logical to do the same for Gran Canaria, which we did the other week.
Wednesday was the first of this summer’s CC evening climbing meets in the Lakes. Thankfully the weather was perfect – sunny, warm, and of course dry. Hooray! Strangely with such lovely conditions only a select gang bothered to turn up. I wonder if it was the choice of venue? Lower Falcon Crag in Borrowdale is …
Sunday arrived as perfect as forecasted – wall to wall sunshine. But instead of jumping on the first lift up to the Aiguille du Midi to bag a rock route, we decided to let the sun do it’s stuff and hopefully melt any snowy ledges while we hopped over the border to Switzerland.
We took the week off work, but we didn’t really have any plans. We thought we’d just take it as it comes.
After a big day in the mountains I decided it was time to enjoy some more relaxing activities and check out the tourist trail in Milford Sound. So we drove down to Milford Sound and took a boat trip through the sound and out to the Tasman sea. We saw lots of wildlife and jaw …
