The plan seemed sound, head to the North Lakes after work and climb at Raven Crag, Thirlmere. Its a much quieter crag than its namesake in Langdale and we fancied climbing Communist Convert and Anarchist.
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| The crags around here somewhere.... |
Its in a beautiful setting nestled in forest above Thirlmere and the shortish walk in was very scenic - good so far. Sadly from this point on events conspired against us. There was a fair amount of bushwhacking to try and locate the start of Anarchist, proved by the fact that I found 3 ticks sucking my blood when I got home.
However, what ultimately kind of spoilt the night were the midges. The forecast had predicted a breeze, but there wasn't one and and we were eaten alive. I've never experienced such ferocious beasts..... We were engulfed in a massive cloud of them, Ben belayed with a jumper over his head so couldn't see a thing, whilst still being savaged through his trousers/top, they were so unbearable that we had abseil from the top of the first pitch to escape and run away.........
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| Just before abseiling off and running away.... |
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