Pennine Lines w/c 1 april 2024

I’m happy to avoid busy places like the plague; it’s quite simply not what I got into climbing for. I stumbled into a busy bookshop in a very rainy Alnwick today and it was so packed I turned around and stood outside in the rain instead, so the thought of turning up to a rammed Isatis or Cuvier makes my stomach turn. In fact it was only by accident I ended up in Llanberis Pass this weekend (long story…) - thankfully to find a good climbing scene despite the constant traffic chaos. But it’s easy for me to say “just don’t go there” having already been to some of these places decades ago. If you’re new to climbing and you’ve read all the guides and the articles and seen all the videos then naturally you’re going to want to go to Sabots, to Raven Tor, or Stanage Plantation, and Easter weekend is the only time you can your mates have got the time off work to go, then that’s when you’re going to have to go.