Galería de Minerales FMF

Para acceder al hilo de FMF donde está la foto

View looking out of the cave to the other side of the valley, where the ’Shelter Stone ’ lies - it is a huge flat boulder which climbers and bivouac enthusiasts have ’camped’ beneath, since climbing started around here.

For my next trick, from the so-called crystal cave I decided to take a short-cut to the top of the cliff via a likely looking gully around the corner. Not one of my better ideas - I seemed to have forgotten that gullies usually become steeper and steeper the higher up you go! Carrying a large heavy rucksack and wearing big boots I found myself astride between rock walls in the steepest part of the gully (which was about 70 degrees) and wishing I wasn’t there! But I was committed and knew that the only way to do it was to focus my mind and go for it, which I did. Fortunately the difficulties were short, the angle eased off, and I was mighty relieved to top out on the nice flat grassy plateau, for a not very well-deserved rest!!
Lesson learned?? Not really, just part of the experience, but I’ll certainly remember it, which is the main thing. -_- (Author: Mike Wood)