The plan was for a weekends caving with Rachel and Richard, but the Bank Holiday weather somewhat disrupted our plans, so Sunday was a late start following an expedition planning meeting...
We have a new guidebook - the new Michel Piola The Aiguilles Rouge (English version) - so we looked for something reasonably short for our first day in Chamonix...
If the Dolomites hadn't been enough for the old legs, we finished off the holidays with the Phoenix long o/mountain marathon near Rothbury in Northumberland...
This weekend Anna and I headed to The Downes hut to meet up with friends from our old climbing club in London. Paul headed south from Barnsley and also joined us.
It wasn't raining, but I was feeling cold and I didn't want to venture high. I wanted to avoid the potential crowds (!) on low-lying Lakeland rock and so I decided that we should head east to Yorkshire. I like the area near Austwick, so Pete picked a new venue for us - Pot Scar...