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From Who'd Adam & Eve it? (Again!)
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From Dovedale Rock and Cake
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From Sunshine on Pot Scar
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From Sunshine on Gimmer
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From Gillercombe Buttress Revisited
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From Llanberis Slate
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From The Ghost - part 2 - 'Fang and Fist'
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From The Ghost - Part 1
Category: Climbing
Climbing – rock, ice, mountains, boulders, etc.
Sub-categorised for finer classification…
On a damp and drizzly Saturday in the South Lakes we drove up north to Borrowdale to check out the conditions.
We met up with Paul to try out some of the routes from his Dovedale post. Although the weather, typically after having been gloriously sunny all of the working week, was a little grey and quite chilly.
It was still sunny on Sunday, and even warmer, and we realised we hadn’t had tea and cake for ages and ages and ages, so I decided a crag very close to a cafe was required…. Pot Scar just above Feizor.
As Haskett Smith recorded in 1894 in his Climbing in the British Isles, “… There are times even in the Lake District when the rain ceases and the sun shines, and it is then that the climber should gambol upon this crag.”
Terry likes to climb Gillercombe Buttress about this time of year as a nice warm up to the season.
After a heavy rain shower in the early hours of Sunday morning we decided our best option to find some quick drying rock was to visit the slate quarries above Llanberis.
Following our reports of easy access to the Ghost, the others decided they must go in.
We hardly made it along highway 1A, so deep was the fresh snow and I was starting to have doubts as regards the wisdom of this trip.
Just a quick one from me – sorry, no photos. Saturday – Kendal Wall. If you fall off whilst trying to clip above you, you go a looong way, no surprises there. However, if you try and inadvertantly slow yourself down by hitting your arse on all the holds on the adjacent wall, don’t expect …
