Sunday 23rd June - Wednesday 26th June
Four years since Black Sail
Full team go flat out in Wibble 2.
Four consecutive days climbing from Brantrake Base, Eskdale
Just Another Diamond Day
Sunday pm
Beaten back fron Brantrake Crags by a phantom peregrine - so headed up to the Diamond Crags area for some looseners.
Diamond Geezer shows the way
Dual valley multi-crag
Monday
Hopped over the Birker Pass and headed up to
Wallowbarrow Crag
Wall and Corner 4 pitches VD
Trinity Slabs (2 pitches)
NB gets the party started
on
Wall and Corner
BP high on Trinity Slabs P2
PMcG romping on
Return to Eskdale for evening climbing at
Hare Crag
Fireball XL5 MVS4b
Easy Slab VD
BP getting spaced out on planet Granatoid
NB hares up Easy Slab
Wonderful climbing
PMcG finds some friction
Later on in the King George for slap up food, yerrow rorries for gentlemanly libation and tales of derring do
ReDuddon
Tuesday 25th June
Wallowbarrow Crag
Thomas (S)
Unknown (?)
Western Wall (MVS 4b)
Bryanston (VS 4b)
PMcG on Thomas P2
AT somewhere similar later on.
BP heads west
P1 Western Wall
BP tackles the sensational P3 on Bryanston
Last day slower pace
Wednesday
Tortoise Crag
More granitation
Six easy(?) pieces on a 12m single pitch slaborama in Eskdale.
NB in flow
Full stream
here
BP takes a break from crag clean up duties
Team Wibble at Brantrake Base
More Wibblepics including route topos and more commentary
here
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Aknowledgements
All - several billion pixels
Trucks and drivers - access all areas and all round mobility
King George people - grub and hospitality
Apple and EE -signal
National Park - rock festoonery and fabulousness
The Gods - weather
Faith - in friction, systems, self and buddies
For the record
