Trips & Reports

Being a fan of efficient starts, we packed the rope the day before, and I ended the day before with a plan to pick Erika and Sophie up at 7am the next morning and to meet Jean-Luc either in the Dales or Skipton Morrisons. That all went fine, we met at Morrisons, ate, dealt with callout, and departed towards our parking spot on Crummack Lane. On the way we realised we didn’t actually have confirmation on our callout, so had... read more

In planning this trip, I looked at the topo, saw both routes, and thought "wouldn't it be fun to rig both". It turns out that it is actually really cool rigging both. The top of Shadow and Dong are located in the same chamber, so you can almost talk to each other whilst rigging/derigging. On the way back I found myself derigging Shadow whilst sat on this small shelf a few metres above the traverse line of Dong pitch. Right... read more