Joux
Category: Rock Climbing
Climbing rock (aka Free Climbing).
CC Aspirants Meet, Castell Helen
Dennis’ day on a Kirkus Route
Hot at Helm Crag
The boys go west
Prana
Magnum Force……………
It’s Christmas in June!
Sergeant Crag Slabs
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Checking out a new venue recommended by Ian, La Joux, just outside Chamonix was fun. Although, being next to a mountain stream and pasture ensured that the monster horse flies ate more of our blood than we ate French bread and cheese at lunch time...
We were super lucky at this year's CC Aspirant members meet - the weather forecast looked poor. Whilst many headed for the reliability of Tremadog, we chose wisely and went to a sunny and dry (but a little windy) Anglesey to visit Castell Helen. Sea cliff adventure climbing - exciting...
In their centenary year, the Wayfarers are committed to climb every Kirkus route in the land...
Pete builds a stone wall for the little people of Helm crag. We did climb aswell though........
Having resigned myself to another weekend of inactivity due to a sore and swollen ankle and after a text from Strong Shane "wanna climb tomorrow" I thought why not! So after more texts S Shane suggested Wilton, Lancashire's answer to Millstone...
Today's great plan was to give Grand Alliance (the ultra classic E4 of Black Crag, Borrowdale) a shot...
After a hot day at Black crag, what more could we want..... yes magnums delivered courtesy of Jon.... Mmmmmmmmmmmm.
With glorious midweek weather in Borrowdale, we headed up to Christmas Crag to escape the crowds.....
Saturday afternoon and Anna and Sarah decided to brave the Borrowdale crowds and headed for Sergeant Crag Slabs...