Joint Rucksack Club Meet with the Climbers Club at The Count House, Cornwall. July 10-16.
The forecast for the week didn’t look great as we headed to Cornwall, but has this ever deterred us?! John and I arrived at the Count House to find quite a few CC members already there…the majority of the RC members arrived on Monday, with two hardy individuals arriving in pouring rain on Wednesday afternoon having cycled over a couple of days from Exeter, even managing to nab a route on Haytor [Dartmoor] and another on The Lizard on the way!
Over the week, 11 CC members and 16 RC members and guests enjoyed a couple of wonderful sunny days, two more mixed days when it dried up late morning allowing good climbing conditions over the remainder of the days and two very wet and windy days…one being Friday when many decided to head home early. A highlight of the week was a communal pasty supper night, with a local supplier providing an excellent selection of meat and veggie pasties of varying sizes! Thanks to the CC for helping to sponsor this evening. A pesky little virus also visited, but the vast majority of people were only mildly affected or weren’t snared by it at all!
Thanks to the CC members for making us so welcome and to all who came and made it such a successful and sociable Meet. Below are some photos taken over the week…as you can see people ranged far and wide although the closeness of Bosigran combined with the quality of routes there made it the most popular venue.
Cherry Usborne on Blind Pew, Pen Olver, en route to The Count House by bike! Photo: Chris Pembroke
Andy Tomlinson descending P2, Right Angle, Gurnard’s Head. Photo: Parminder Chaggar
Parminder Chaggar belaying P2, Right Angle, Gurnard’s Head. Photo: Andy Tomlinson
Parminder Chaggar P3, Right Angle, Gurnard’s Head. Photo: Andy Tomlinson
Mike Ryan and Dick Kerr on Doorway, Bosigran. Photo: Dom Oughton
Pastie evening! Photo: Dom Oughton
…and another table on the Pastie evening! Photo: Dom Oughton
Helen Oughton, Hollywood Walls, The Lizard. Photo: Dom Oughton
Dom and Tash Oughton, top of Hollywood Wall, The Lizard. Photo: Oughton collection
John ‘Warby’ on Ochre Slab Route II Photo: Andy Tomlinson
The Oughton family on Autumn Flakes, Bosigran. Photo: Chris Pembroke
Chris Pembroke belaying on Paragon, with Tash and Helen Oughton on Autumn Flakes, Bosigran. Photo: Dom Oughton
Parminder Chaggar on Archangel, Black Head. Photo: Andy Tomlinson
Great pics! Good to meet up with some old mates at the Count House, albeit briefly. Couple of minor caption corrections (me being a picky local): Right Angle is at Gurnard’s Head, not Robins Rocks; Mike and Dick are on P1 of Doorway, not Doorpost. Take it easy out there….
Thanks Sam…all corrected!