Unfortunately I had to work all of this Saturday, but that made me even more keen to make the most of the good weather on Sunday. The plan was to head to Dow Crag in the Lakes with Ben, start early so that we had our choice of routes and could also finish earlyish, as Ben had family commitments in the afternoon.
We thought that leaving home at 6am would ensure that we were first at the crag. Wrong... we got to the base of the crag at 8.30am, after quite a hot walk in. Even at this time we found that we were the 4th team there! There was already a queue on Eliminate A (the classic 110m VS at the crag), so we headed to Murray's Route (S). I'd not done this 'classic rock' route before and it was very good, each (polished) pitch has something of interest on it.
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| Even at 8am it was hot (mist/cloud clearing over Dow Crag) |
After finishing this route at about 10.30am there were over 10 teams at the crag and so we stuck to the quieter right hand side and climbed Eliminate 'C', a brilliant VS, with two great pitch's that are quite airy for the grade (loved this route).
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| The slippy 1st pitch traverse of Murray's |
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| Somewhere else on Murray's Route (so warm it could have been the Alps!) |
We needed a quick route to finish the day, so shot up 'D' Ordinary Route (VD), which had 1 bush whacking pitch, one okay pitch and a final 'walking' pitch!
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| The 1st fun pitch on Eliminate 'C' (good views of Goats Water beyond) |
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| Airy traverse, Ben just stepping on to a slightly loose spike! |
Great day all the same, I'm a bit frazzled from the sun, trying not to think about work tomorrow, giving more brain power to when I can get out to play again.....next time will have to get up earlier.....
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