Duddon and Kern Knotts
An unexpected end-of-March / Easter weekend weather window saw Jake and me at our usual M6 Junction 36 rendezvous, trying to decide on a Lakes venue that would be warm […]
Tag Archives: Lake District
Grand Alliance for Father’s Day
Black Crag in Borrowdale is a great venue with a wide spread of grades – with the unusual distinction of routes that feature in both Classic Rock and Extreme Rock […]
Pike o’ Blisco – Three Crag Day
After a bit of a Covid-enforced lull in RockAroundTheWorld activity, Sunday was an opportunity for some gentle trad in the company of Stan (also recovering, though a bit further down […]
Black Crag, Pike o’ Blisko
There are a string of crags, scattered over the southern slopes of Pike o’ Blisko, of which Black Crag is the most extensive. They’re more on the scale of a […]
Destination Dow
Dow Crag is one of the great mountain crags of The Lakes, and benefits from fairly easy access from Langdale (20mins drive) so is a great spot to avoid the […]
Engineer’s Slabs, Gable and a long overdue encounter
I first leafed through Hard Rock almost 40 years ago – a hallowed tome on Pete’s (my father-in-law to be) bookshelf. At that time, and for quite a few years […]
You know it’s a weird summer when The Lakes is the dry option – Raven Crag and Hodge Close
Jake and I had a couple of days window for a mid-week getaway in Glorious August – if only the weather would play game. Scouring forecasts, options were limited: Even […]
Costa del Silverdale and Runestones – seaside and slate sport
Heading up to the Lakes for Dave’s 60th, with an iffy forecast for the big hills, it seemed like a good opportunity to sample the newly-developed sports climbing on Morecambe […]
Dove take 2 – Extol and Bucket City
Day 2 of the Dad and Jake Lakes Adventure required a suitable objective to avoid being a damp squib after our Langdale ticking session. The weather warranted a mountain crag […]
Kern Knotts
Kern Knotts is a historic crag, occupying a strategic position above Styhead Pass near the epicentre of the Lake District. It’s about an hour and a quarter of pleasant walking, […]
Raven Crag, Threshthwaite Cove
This spot had been on my to do list for decades, so I was fully on board when Paul announced it as our objective for the day when I picked […]
Chasing the Ephemeral
I signed off my last post with the first snows of winter, and that evening a forecasted high pressure / blue-skies day had my thoughts turning to a quick fix […]
Dovedale Groove
Here’s a route that’s been on my tick list for 35 years, ever since it appeared in the iconic TV series: Lakeland Rock. This featured Chris Bonington charting the development […]
A Feast on The East
According to Hard Rock: “The East Buttress of Scafell is the finest crag in The Lakes. A great lonely crag. Its walls overhang. Water drips out instead of down.” Quite […]
Saxon on Scafell
Waking up in Wasdale (after celebrating Nick’s Joss Naylor success) to find it wasn’t raining, there really was only one option – a day on Scafell. It’s a pain to […]
Pavey Ark and a big day out
Up in the Lakes to support Nick’s Joss Naylor challenge – a run from Pooley Bridge to Wasdale, traversing 30 summits over a distance of 48 miles and climbing 17,000 […]
Caw Fell
After celebrations to mark Pete’s 80th a sunny morning was too good an opportunity to miss to blow away the cobwebs. Dave signed up for a jog over Caw Fell, […]
Steel Knotts Crag
Justin and Chris invited us to break our journey to Scotland with an afternoon in Borrowdale. With the temperature around 30C we needed a shady crag that wasn’t at the […]
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