Bob Graham Round

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paulcook Dec 2024 12:17pm, 30 Dec 2024 7,141 posts	0 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	0 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	0 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	0 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	0 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	0 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	0 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	0 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	0 Northern Exile That occurred to me too. Must have been v difficult.
flyingfinn Dec 2024 7:39pm, 30 Dec 2024 3,750 posts	0 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.