Quality mountain days is a much used phrase in mountain leader circles. You have to log them to get your ML and lead them to get on the MIA. They have to be long days up high, with an element of adventure.
Glaramara Summit
So yesterday saw myself and Allan heading up Glaramara on our 'Seven Summits' day. He wants to bag all the Wainwrights and I need people who want to push the mountaineering boat out a bit. The promise of trying for 7 Wainwrights in 7 hours, including the two highest ones and the classic Broad Stand scramble on the way had him hooked. Glossing over the fact that at the end of the 7 hours we would be at the top of England, 5 miles from the car and on top of a crag helped.
Well we made it, nearly. 5 summits over 900m and 2 more around the 780 mark in just over 7 hours. Had Broad Stand been dry we would have made it. As it was it was wet, very cold and just a bit epic, it took a little longer.
The 'Precarious Pinnacle', Lord's Rake
As for the descent down Lord's Rake followed by a race to get as far back down the corridor route as we could before dark. Well, that became a quality mountain night!
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