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From Snowy Lakes
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From Who needs a compass?
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From Grotto Falls ice climb in the Canadian Rockies
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From Improvised Rescue Practice
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From Seven Days of Languedoc Sport Climbing
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From Via Ferrata 'Extreme' at Honister Pass
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From A digest of recent weeks...
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From Passy Via Ferrata
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From Forbes Arête, Aiguille du Chardonnet
Category: Climbing
Climbing – rock, ice, mountains, boulders, etc.
Sub-categorised for finer classification…
Yesterday we went for a bumble up to Stickle Tarn to see what the winter conditions were like. It was very windy. But there were plenty of people out, including a team on Jack’s Rake. We weren’t wearing winter boots, and didn’t have axes or crampons with us, so we stuck to the trails. Today, …
Steve and I had a great day on an easy winter route on Great End today.
Ice climbing Grotto Falls with Canmore friends, Doug Nelson, Everett Fee and Terry Kenny (UK). Throughout the year this spectacular grotto is visited by many for the pictographs and for the unique topography. I had the good fortune to climb with these three seasoned ice climbers during mid January in ideal conditions. https://youtube.com/watch?v=lzVkoGfrWjg%3Frel%3D0
Saturday’s weather was dry, but not as sunny as the forecast had suggested it might be. So still being keen to get outside and do something climbing related Laetitia offered to be a pretend casualty while I practiced some improvised rescue skills at Trowbarrow Quarry…
Keith had invited a small gang to the Languedoc region of southern France to sample some of his favourite local sport climbing …
I told Bernie to book us on the ‘Classic’ Via Ferrata at the Honister Pass slate mines but we arrived to find ourselves booked on the ‘Extreme’. Well, you can only die once, I thought.
I seem to have fallen in to the same trap as my FB friends. That is, not that I’ve actually starting using FB and giving away more and more personal details and preferences so that they can bombard me with marketing
Ian is too busy to write up our little adventure in Passy, just down the valley from Chamonix, so I thought I would post a few photos to remember a fun day out.
Note to self: If you go up a mountain after too much time spent in the office and too little time spent acclimatising, it’s going to hurt – everywhere!
