Monthly Archives: February 2010

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Paddling on Coniston Water

Wow, what a day…

Not a breath of wind, I have never seen it as still with snow on the hills and the reflection…

see for yourself

Up to Scotland tomorrow for a week, will be posting on the blog from there.

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Coniston Old Man

Today a saw really warm temperatures on the South side of the hill with perfectly still conditions.

The North side has a good covering of snow with some of the more defined routes still been done and appeared continuous.

Hope the photos give you a good impression of what the climbing might be like, today was one of those days that was worth being on the tops of the rather than in a gully!

The temperatures are sue to drop again this week so it can only get better again!

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Ingleborough

Today we headed to summit to top of Ingleborough with a great little team of 9-10 year olds.

The snow was still in good form over 600m, we even found a compulsory large piece of snow we just had to cut steps in to be able to continue what was some of the teams first winter assent of a mountain.

The last alternative route to the top found us once again on firm néve, most of todays snow you could avoid however if the day lead to colder conditions some parts of the hill would be quite serious to stand up on.

On the way back down we found a great slope for appropriate use of our personal sledges (centre waterproofs!!!), and a place for our mini mountaineers to have a careful go with the ice axe.

Cumbria Bolt Fund

I have been chairing the Cumbria Bolt Fund for just over a year with Ron Kenyon as Treasure |& Peter Latimer + James Bumbey helping out with access to re-bolt these crags.

If you have a spare moment have a look at the Cumbria Bolt Funds web site.

We are looking for keen local experienced climbers who have a practical mind and are happy with large drills and dangling on ropes.

Drop me a line if you are interested in helping out this summer.

Also keep and eye on this blog when the weather turns warm enough for the resin to go off, ill post the info of what has just been bolted on this blog and the CBF’s Blog.

Happy climbing the cold stuff.

Dan

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