Dave was volunteered by work (yes, it was a jolly) to stand by Long Churn Cave, to help a film crew in a helicopter locate Upper Long Churn cave for the forthcoming BBC series on caving with Kate Humble and some other guy...
Richard Dearden and I embarked on the mini- Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon on Thursday. This event was organised as part of the Keswick Mountain Festival; starting from near Lattrig in Keswick, the idea was to find as many of the 19 control as possible in 4 hours. These were spread throughout the valley and hills …
Sunday dawned dry - a bonus, it was supposed to rain! But with a forecast for rain from the south around lunch time we opted for a trip to Paul's local crag, Wharncliffe...
Paul and I had planned a trip to Scotland, but the weather forecast was very poor. Such a shame after the weeks of sunny weather we've been having recently. But, not to be deprived of our sport completely I headed down to the Peak to join Paul for some climbing on my least favoured rock; Grit! It seems to me that grit is either steep and strenuous or unprotected...
Dave gives his body to a good cause for a few hours.
After two days of hard gardening it was time to do some hard climbing to justify calling ourselves climbers! But with a poor holiday forecast (thundery showers!), where to go?
It was our turn to pay back some of the sweat Dave had suffered digging the ground for our patio a couple of years ago; today we helped lift the turf where the new green house is due to rise from the ground next week. It was hard work...
After the wonderful dinner and wine last night we felt a little tired this morning and so we headed up to Quayfoot Buttress, Borrowdale for a short approach to a not too long climb...
So while the Sterlings and friends are wandering around the Alps on planks, some of us have been taking advantage of the jolly pleasent weather we've been having of late...
