Category: scrambling
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Out walking again, finally, Snowdonia – August
It has been a while since I added an entry on this site. It has been a while since I got to go on a walking trip. We visited Snowdonia in Wales on our way through to the Scottish Highlands, with a view to getting some scrambling practice. We decided to revisit Tryfan and the…
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Going through Little Hell Gate on Great Gable, Lake District – April
We thought we may have been up Great Gable on a previous occasion (I checked later, and it turned out that we had gone up it in 2009). In any case, we knew that we had not gone up ‘direct’ route up the south-west ridge, through the charmingly named Little Hell Gate. I forgot to…
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Finding a way up to Sca Fell, Lake District – April
We had been up to Scafell Pike before (in 2006): it is the highest mountain in England at 978m, and there is a relatively easy way up to the top. On the last occasion, it was in December, and there was a bit of snow at the top. I had felt a bit nervous about…