Summer let us down again in the Lakes.............. with rain threatening in Langdale we headed again for Raven Crag, (close to the road) and the rain duly arrived; no sign of Gene Kelly, but better footwork from Tish as she danced up the wet rock.....................
Ian and I met up in Chapel Stile with plan A being a trip to Gimmer - the weather in the morning had been wall to wall blue skies. But no, not for us, as I drove down the Langdale road it was raining! But we soldiered on and changed to plan B, Raven Crag...
A massive rock fall has occurred on shepherd’s crag in the vicinity of ‘Shepherd’s Gully’ and ‘Derision Groove’. My guess is that it has occurred in the last week. It certainly hadn’t occurred 2 weeks ago. The fall is from the previously overhanging, loose section immediately above the top little traverse on ‘Derision Grove’. This …
Midweek sunshine and I met Pete at Shepherds to grab a route after work. After all the slab climbing on bolts in Chamonix, Pete fancied something steeper....... half way up we realised just what training we needed to do.......
