When my legs worked properly I used to climb at Birchen Edge and bivvy overnight on the top (and when I say bivvy, I mean in the cheap orange plastic bivouac sack). I’ve not been there for maybe 10 years.
Today we took the kids for a picnic on the top (in hot weather in October!) and I showed them our old routes and helped them with some basic bouldering.
On the route up (and down) we hunted for fungi.
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