Up with Bob on friday to hit Moor Crag about 8pm. Found bed and dumped kit before returning to common room to sip wine and play many a 'icebreaker' game. consumed the remainder of the bottle during the evening and swam in the Lake not once but twice!



Realised that everybody else had gone to bed so decided that I best hit the sack too... only to realise it was 7.30am and everybody was getting up! Packed stuff and got in Smiler's car to the Langdales feeling utterly wrong. Went with the group an Ash up stickle gill and then along to grade 2 on thorn crag. Conveeniently brought up the rear, offering inspiring words of confidence to Lewis who does not take to scrambles as well as some people! Once up that we traversed round the tarn before doing the classic Jack's rake, once on top banged out Harrison Srickle, Loft Crag and Pike of Stickle. Weather turned to ming with horizontal hail burning our faces so we headed back down to the old hotel and then back to Moor Crag via the Costa in Bowness for a large frozen coffe drink of goodness...



Saturday night was simlar to friday's. Once everybody was suitably 'conditioned' we turned off all the lights and broke out the glowsticks with tricky disco booming! Bed sometime around 2am I think...

Had planned to go and attempt Eliminate A on Down Crag on the Sunday but when we woke up it was clear that neither me or Phil were really up to it and neither was the weather... 8 pitches of VS in the snow would of been hell! Instead packed up stuff watched people get invested and then mossied down to bowness for a pitch and put session, was bloody cold though - I must of looked a little out of place on the gold course in bright yellow Nepal Extremes to keep my toes toasty!