Sergeant Crag Slabs
An Evening at Sandale
Pumped at Freezing Trowbarrow
Rain Forecast – Kentmere Mountain Biking
Gimmer; No, it’s White Ghyll
Side Pike, Langdale
What rain!
Meteorological Mistake!
Corvus
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Saturday afternoon and Anna and Sarah decided to brave the Borrowdale crowds and headed for Sergeant Crag Slabs...
Summer is back!!!! We headed to Headend Quarry for an evening of climbing and beer at The old Crown.
Laetitia, Paul and Pete were greeted by BMC signs informing us that peregrines were nesting at today's venue - Warton Quarry. Not that we needed the signs to know that the warning in the guide book about possible nesting bird restrictions was likely to be in force, there were dozens of people twitching away with massive telescopes and cameras with two foot long lenses...
Heavy rain and a cold northerly wind was forecast, so Kath, Dave, Paul, Laetitia and Pete decided the best option for the weather was to go for a mountain bike round of Kentmere...
We set off for Gimmer Crag in Langdale today - it was sunny, and the south facing buttress seemed like a good option. Fifteen minutes from the car we came over a rise and felt the teeth of the cold northerly wind! Gimmer was going to be cold! We decided to go to White Ghyll for some shelter...
It was a lovely sunny evening, so I chose the coldest, windiest, south east facing crag I could find...
Having seen Friday's forecast for the weekend I decided to lay turf on Saturday and risk climbing on grit between the predicted showers on Sunday...
The forecast was atrocious, and of course wildly inaccurate!
It was wet today! So wet that we almost stayed home and looked out of the windows wishing we were more dedicated... Are we just fair weather climbers?