Lovely Limestone
Windgather and the Roaches
Diane’s 1st Mountain
Terry takes us to ‘Jack Scout Crag’
Kentmere Horseshoe
Jack Scout Crag
Weather Forecast Wrong (again)!
The Wrong Clothes
Rogan’s Seat
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Ewbank Scar is a fine piece of limestone. No caves visible though....
The boulderers tell us that zero deg C is best for friction. Well, although Tuesday dawned beautiful and clear, it was in fact fff..ing fffreezing, with a wind chill too. So, maybe Windgather wasn't a good choice...
After my mum's successful ascent of Helvellyn a few months before, my sister Diane decided to follow in our footsteps and go on her first ever walk in the Cumbrian Fells...
Terry has been to Jack Scout crag before and it seemed like a good venue following the fireworks and booze of the night before...
Paul, Dave, Laetitia & Pete enjoyed a day out doing the famous ridge walk, the Kentmere Horseshoe...
Sunday morning was so wet in Ormskirk that Chris and I called off our trip to the Lakes. My powers of alchemy, over the weather, were obviously failing (like everything else!). Then, by late morning, we saw the fine weather further north...
The BBC weather forecasters had said it would rain heavily on Sunday, but as seems usual they got it wrong for Cumbria. Instead what they meant was it would rain in London and that the band of rain would have passed through Cumbria the night before...
It turned out nice didn't it?
Not content with my walk on Scout Scar, I went for a walk with the Bogtrotters....