Youth revisited

Nice walk today up Coniston Old Man (steeper and longer than I remember!!). Then across to Dow Crag, the scene of my very first rock climb age 13. (I think it was called Giants Corner or something similar) No fancy kit in those days - an old hemp rope tied round the waist,chocks were old washers and climbing shoes were a pair of "pumps" From the top we could see my old playground - the Duddon valley, Eskdale, Coniston lake and the south western Cumbrian coastline. Great place to grow up.