Lake District Holiday
Friday 29th June 2018
Today's choice of activity is Climbing! Yesterday when we were in Needle Sports in Keswick we were talking about the places we had looked up to go climbing. A few of the places we had researched were mentioned. We decided to visit Long Scar, part way up the mountain Pike of Blisco! Getting to this crag involved driving half way along Wrynose Pass - a steep single track pass with 1 in 4 gradients!
We parked on the edge of the road near the Three Shire Stone. We could see the crag, there were some people already climbing there. We set off out to the crag. When we got there we had to work out from the guide book where we had arrived to. We thought we were near a nice easy climb to get started. We sauntered up it and when we got back down we chatted to another climber and realised we were not where we thought we were! Later on we were able to work out what we had just climbed a route called Tiree (1 on the photo below). We then climbed Islay (2 on the photo below), Platt Gang Groove (3 on the photo below), Roxy (4 on the photo below) and fially Dot's Delight (5 on the photo below).
When we climbed Dot's Delight we took our back packs up with us as we planned to carry on up to the top of the Pike of Blisco.
There was a great view at the top, also a lovely breeze to cool us down - I was hot and knackered!!
The route back to the car felt like a long way! It seemed to take for ages for the car to feel like it was getting closer!!
When we got back to the car it was about 6pm we were both hungry. We headed back to the apartment for pizza and a well earned rest!!
We parked on the edge of the road near the Three Shire Stone. We could see the crag, there were some people already climbing there. We set off out to the crag. When we got there we had to work out from the guide book where we had arrived to. We thought we were near a nice easy climb to get started. We sauntered up it and when we got back down we chatted to another climber and realised we were not where we thought we were! Later on we were able to work out what we had just climbed a route called Tiree (1 on the photo below). We then climbed Islay (2 on the photo below), Platt Gang Groove (3 on the photo below), Roxy (4 on the photo below) and fially Dot's Delight (5 on the photo below).
There was a great view at the top, also a lovely breeze to cool us down - I was hot and knackered!!
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