Holiday - Northumberland and North Wales - Day 9 - Climbing Bowden Doors and Corby's Crag

Northumberland and North Wales Holiday

Friday 9th June 2017

This morning the weather looked a great deal better than yesterday!  We decided we would go climbing at Bowden Doors. 

We parked up and walked out to the crag - unfortunately it was a cow field!  Luckily as we walked across the field the cows ran away!!  We walked along the crag and identified each area and the climbs that we wanted to do.

We started by climbing Introductory Staircase.

We then moved onto Secondary Staircase.

We next found a sheltered spot so we could have some lunch.

Further down the crag we continued with Russet Groove.

We finished up with Castle Crack - Unfortunately I forgot to take a photo of the route!
We were finding the windiness was making communication difficult and we were feeling rather windswept.  We decided to move on to a different crag that we thought might be a bit more sheltered.  We headed for Corby's Crag.

We parked at the top of the crag and set off walking to the bottom of the crag to identify the different sections.  We eventually identified where we were and started to decide what we would start with.  We started with a route called Cake Walk.

We next moved on to a route called The Plonka.

By now it was just gone 7pm so we decided to give up for the day and go back to the cottage for some dinner.  We put jacket potatoes in the oven and then had showers and tidied up while it was cooking.  Tomorrow we are moving on to North Wales.  We need to be out of the cottage by 10.