Eeeeh, some dry weather, at last. Three people attended at
Shepherds Crag, Borrowdale; “Adam” and “Delight Maker” were climbed in fine
weather.
Monday 26 May 2014
Glen Etive Meet Report, 9-11th May 2014
Eight members attended. After an inauspicious start of rain
pattering on the hut roof on Saturday morning and hence a relatively late rise,
members got out in various groups to do various objectives, amongst occasional
light showers, which had the bonus of providing some very vivid rainbows when
the sun shone through chinks in the cloud.
Jake and Chris tackled a compact group (rare) of three Corbetts near
Loch Ailort, with a lot more descent and re-ascent between peaks than perhaps
they had anticipated. Ross and Jan took
on a pair of Grahams near Inchree and, following the guide book, took their
choice of “any of the streams through the forest”; unfortunately they chose one
of the several streams other than the only one which leads without purgatorial
effort up on to the desired ridge.
Sarah, Martin and Johnny went for Ben Starav and its tops but, instead
of climbing back up from the distantly outlying top at 918 metres, they opted
to descend the West ridge and then had a long hard tramp around the
“interminable” loch shore. John bagged a brace of Grahams at the foot of
Glencoe, without incident; these gave magnificent views up the Glencoe valley,
through the arch of one of the most complete and vivid rainbows he has ever
seen.
Sunday; Johnny went directly home with a gammy knee. Ross, Jan and Sarah climbed the two Grahams
which John had climbed the day before. Jake and Chris climbed a Corbett near to
Ben Heasgarnich. John went much further North to Struy and got permission to
take a car up Glen Strathfarrar to climb a Graham in the pouring rain before
heading further Northwards to start climbing the remote, outlying Grahams of
the far North, over the next couple of weeks.
Climbing meet report, Wednesday 23rd April 2014
Another meet beset by rain, which prevented play on the crag
from even starting. Members went to
Penrith climbing wall instead.
Sunday 4 May 2014
Meet Report, Sunday Walk, 4 May 2012
Speaking too soon and just deserts.
Well, announcing a reminder of the Sunday with prospects of
good weather was bound to be risky and so it turned out to be – yet another
Sunday walk beset by poor weather. Four stoic members and a guest (including
that old guy again) set out from Ennerdale in sizeable precipitation. The originally planned itinerary was slightly
modified to assist your newsletter editor in collecting in some of the controls
of the Easter mystery trip, which is now closed. The route took us up, around the flanks of
Crag Fell on what was possibly the old daily access route to work for the
miners at the old mine workings around this area. Then out to the remains of a crashed
aeroplane in 50m visibility fog, driving rain and wind which numbed un-gloved
hands. Upon working round to the reward cache it was found, disappointingly for
all of the effort put in by the course organiser, that not a single reward had
been claimed, so the editor generously allowed the entire cache of 35 rewards to
be shared between just the five of us – yum, yum, amply providing compensation
for the poor weather. We were happy to
leave just a load of raspberries for everyone else.
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