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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 Llanberis Slate
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From Cold Capella
Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
Next week we are off to Geyikbayiri for a week of sunny bolt clipping with Elsie and Koon…
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.”
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.
Wow, the first awesome weather in the Lakes for what seems like weeks and weeks, and we were at home…
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