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Checking The Exmoor Climbing Stakes

15th February 2009.
The weathers improving, once out of the wind it’s quite warm. Took my hammer for a walk today checking the metal stakes that climbers tie on to at the top of the cliffs.

Didn’t know what to expect from the weather, the Brendons and the north side of Dunkery still had a fair bit of snow cover. A bad sign I am told if it lies about for too long.

The Ravens are busy repairing their huge timber nests so maybe spring is not that far away. People are getting out again, there must have been well over twenty walking on Bossington Hill, plus a couple of Para gliders.

It was possible to climb without the fingers freezing; I could not resist a quick traverse across the slab above Gull Hole.

Read somewhere yesterday that the most stolen book from UK bookshops is the A to Z of London. Can you believe that the second is OS maps, the main one being the Exmoor Explorer map? Active Exmoor has got to be doing a good job.


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