John Paterson


Skiing in Gressoney, Italy
Sunday, 10 February 2008
Read more...The Monte Rosa ski area is an area of steep-sided, wooded valleys strewn with boulders large and small. Because of this the ski area, whilst huge, is only medium sized in terms of the number of runs - although some of them are several miles long with descents of up to 5,000 feet. The valleys are branch valleys off the huge Aosta Valley which stretches for many miles below the Swiss border.
 
FORNSIDE CHRONICLES
An excellent day on Grisedale Pike

Read more...As others have said it was a beautiful blue sky day today.  Unfortunately I had things to see to in Keswick so I couldn't make a start on a walk until 11.30.  We drove to Revelin Moss carpark near the top of Whinlatter Pass and took the forest track which leads to the north ridge of Grisedale Pike and Hobcarton End. 

 
Wet and windy on High Pike

Read more...Our walk actually started in the dry and it lasted all of five minutes before the drizzle started.  We were aiming for Dry Gill to gain some shelter from the wind on the ascent.  By the time we reached Dry Gill we had all put overtrousers on and our hoods were up.  Dry Gill was not quite dry yesterday, it had a trickle of water but not much.

 
FEATURED UNFREQUENTED WAINWRIGHT ROUTES
UWR 9: Helvellyn via the steep Mines Gill

Today was cloudy and cooler than the past few days so I thought it would be a good day to do Helvellyn via the steep Mines Gill route which heads straight for the summit from just above the shores of Thirlmere. This is another of AW's routes which has never found favour with many walkers.

 
UWR 6: The "Shelf Route" on Eel Crag above Coledale

Read more...A few years ago I did Wainwright's Tower Ridge on Eel Crag and enjoyed it very much. Today I returned to the same spot but this time it was to climb the "Shelf Route".

 
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