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Bob Graham Round

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paulcook Dec 2024 12:17pm, 30 Dec 2024 7,141 posts	Quote Pin paulcook How's the visibility been? Been some awful fog in parts of the country the last few days. Even if you don't get lost, take a miss-turn, etc, I often find some conditions, like those we seem to have experienced since Christmas, can really slow you down if nothing else.
Rosehip Dec 2024 12:17pm, 30 Dec 2024 34,049 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip Sound plan hope the weather isn't too unkind all the best! (the reference was for me to get a rough handle on timings rather than a reference for records etc)
K5 Gus Dec 2024 2:56pm, 30 Dec 2024 6,306 posts	Quote Pin K5 Gus Do you think she's going to deviate off the loaded track and head north from Sallows to get the 2 (Ill Bell and Yoke) she didn't do earlier ?
Rosehip Dec 2024 4:11pm, 30 Dec 2024 34,054 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip There's your answer, Gus Is it extra exposed/rough/ridgy btwn Froswick and Ill Bell? I don't know around there at all (yet)
Dave A Dec 2024 4:15pm, 30 Dec 2024 24,478 posts	Quote Pin Dave A Rosehip wrote:There's your answer, Gus Is it extra exposed/rough/ridgy btwn Froswick and Ill Bell? I don't know around there at all (yet) Yes it is.
Northern Exile Dec 2024 4:24pm, 30 Dec 2024 10,715 posts	Quote Pin Northern Exile If there is snow/Ice on the ridge she might sensibly have decided on the safer Froswick descent rather than the steep and extremely dodgy Yoke descent.
Rosehip Dec 2024 4:32pm, 30 Dec 2024 34,056 posts	Quote Pin Rosehip I was looking at the map and thought I wouldn't fancy it
flyingfinn Dec 2024 6:11pm, 30 Dec 2024 3,749 posts	Quote Pin flyingfinn No snow and ice. Just very gusty and from the perfectly wrong direction.
Northern Exile Dec 2024 6:21pm, 30 Dec 2024 10,716 posts	Quote Pin Northern Exile That occurred to me too. Must have been v difficult.
flyingfinn Dec 2024 7:39pm, 30 Dec 2024 3,750 posts	Quote Pin flyingfinn Tbh I've known worse, usually involving the Cumbrian Traverse it was just a continual risk assessment and adjusting accordingly. Some good minds in the group, on and off the mountain.