Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
We had great plans today - catching the early telegraphique, ski across to the Tour Ronde, tick the North Face and ski the Mer de Glace... However, news of a fatality on that mountain the day before put us off somewhat...
Plan A failed today. We were headed for Chapelle de la Gliere but only got 10 minutes from the chair lift before we realised there was way too much snow...
We didn't know how much snow there would be after last week's heavy falls so we decided a good idea would be a trip to some of the rock climbing at Montenver...
Tuesday evening, and Anna and I headed for our own secret crag in Borrowdale............
Ian wanted to have an adventure lined up for today and suggested we went to my secret crag to grab a new route. So, after getting Anna and Ian to sign in blood that they'd keep it's location a secret we headed off...
The day began with my opening the curtains and seeing the sunny weather had not yet been replaced by the forecast snow and a text message "What you doin' today? Wanna go climbing?" to Ian. The day ended with the forecast snow (and winter temperatures) driving us away from our chosen crag...
Rick told us before we came to Canada that we should bring our rock shoes so he could show us his new 'secret' winter sun crag...
When I saw the opportunity on the BMC site for the South African Mountain Club‘s international climbing meet it was too great an opportunity to miss. All I had to do was get the time off work and make contact with the super efficient Ulrike Kiefer to get my place sorted… Here’s a short (as …
Saturday evening was the CC AGM, preceded by a showing of Leo Dickinson’s re-edited Towers of Paine film, and followed by dinner at the Lee Wood Hotel, Buxton.
