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Have a look into our past here you will find what we have been up to and be able to see some of our thoughts and re posts of interest.

White Ghyll Abseil point

POSTED: 29th June 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Staff @ Play

Kat and I headed op to White Ghyll and Kat lead Slip Knot VS 4a, 4b before getting rained off, well it had to happen at some point this summer!
There are many abseil points across the Lakes and they vary from good to just really unsightly.

Below is an example of the accumulation of new tat to back up old suspect tat and the old being left behind with a variety of either...

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Gable Crag

POSTED: 26th June 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Staff @ Play

Today Martin Ibbotson from High Times Mountaineering and I headed up to Gable for a crack at some harder routes…
A good early start meant that we where the first on the crag but not for long, the last count got up to 23 climbers!! just when we where saying how none of the routes looked like they had been climbed for a while and how no one climbs on high mountain...

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Bowfell Buttress with Langdale Primary School

POSTED: 26th June 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Langdale Primary School adopts understands that everyone is an individual and each person will find what they are best at in life, they believe in giving each young person the opportunity to experience every thing they have to offer and to allow for further development for those who connect to topic.
At Real Adventure we take the Langdale kids out from an early age...

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Mountain Biking – Flookburgh Primary School

POSTED: 22nd June 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

As part of the Schools Extended Services we provided a days mountain biking.
Steve Pugh took them around the woods and tracks of the Cartmel area where they all learned to bike safely and mastered skills from the tuition of Steve.

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Langdale Primary BBQ

POSTED: 21st June 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Langdale Primary Y4, 5 & 6’s have been doing an unassisted walk cir-cum navigating Lingmore with an over night camp.
We headed out to meet them for a BBQ at Blea Tarn. As there was time and it was in the van..

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The Wobbly Rock – Dow Crag

POSTED: 20th June 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Staff @ Play, Technical Courses

Now the last time I was climbing on Dow, Helen and I where chatting with a fella who was noting how quiet the crag was and that this was due to a certain rock he had wedged on the footpath along the tarn.Anyone who has climbed on Dow Crag in the past will remember the irritating echo of the clatter of a wobbly rock which got stood on every time a walker passed along side...

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Hodge Close Quarry

POSTED: 20th June 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Staff @ Play

After work we headed over to Hodge to take out the Bolt that had been placed in Ten Years After. The route is a classic traditional climb that is one of the “classic slate scare fests” a bolt was placed next to the old peg.
The Cumbria Bolt Fund which I chair works towards seeing replaced bolts cumbria’s bolted climbs, no illegitimate bolts will stay in...

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Guided Rock – Wasdale

POSTED: 19th June 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Technical Courses

Paul had not been rock climbing since hemp rope and hobnailed boots, he was keen to convert his skills to the present day!
During the week Paul learnt his limits using his new boots, all there was to know about basic rope work, placing gear, building anchors and abseiling.

Going away with a set of skills get himself up climbs safely he headed back South.

Paul and I will...

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Ghyll Scrambling – Langdale Primary

POSTED: 14th June 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Young People

Lessons are outside today once again for Langdale Primary. Graham and I took a class of Year 5’s Ghyll Scrambling up Stickle Ghyll for the day with Mark Squires the head of the school.
Its great working closely with a school for a long period of time, getting to know the young people and seeing them on many adventure means that we can rank up the adventure level.

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Navigation Training

POSTED: 13th June 2010 BY: Dan
CATEGORIES: Technical Courses

Kat was out today navigation training with a lad Tim from London. Tim is leading up to an event and wanted to top his skills up.
They headed to the area above Easedale and covered a number of skills on 3 varieties of maps before heading back to Grasmere for gingerbread then the train home.

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