Isn’t it just cragging near the sea? - Sennen
We’ve been here before. Put a date in the diary a couple of months ago for a climbing trip in the mountains, then with 2 days to go, find the forecast looks wet or unsettled. And so it was this time, a planned 3 days in the Lakes having big days out on classic rock routes dashed by a change in weather after 6 weeks of drought! Same story in Wales. Mrs L wasn’t interested in hearing our climbing plans sob-story again. “What about Cornwall?” “In the summer holidays? Traffic, 6 hour drive, hard to car camp in laybys. And it’s just cragging by the sea isn’t it.” As we set off to Sennen, it felt like we were settling for a second rate trip compared to the mountain atmosphere we normally thrive in. We were very wrong. It is a long way from Leicestershire. It is harder to car-camp. Yet despite it’s shorter stature, even Sennen is anything but simply cragging by the sea. Waking up to a view of the Atlantic at the very end of England was a joy (if not so much being disturbed by a tractor m...