Pelion West

[merlin]

Decided on climbing PW on the walk from Windemere to New Pelion to avoid doubling up. Advice given above was spot on. The track junction is about 150m south of Pelion Ck. If you blink at the wrong time you would miss it. It's not obvious. The track is however easy to follow once you find the junction. The track is quite overgrown with scrub so I am glad I had gaiters and ninjas! My knees still got a good scratching though. Long pants next time.
The summit is truely awesome with huge boulders everywhere you look and what great views. The summit thumb of rock capped off a very memorable climb. We saw nobody else on the mountain and took 4.5 hrs return from the main track making a 9hr day all up including breaks.

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Great photo, could you have perhaps found a more precarious rock to climb up and sit on? Doesn't look like it's got much gripping area from that shot, but an awesome shot anyway. (Damn typing skills)

Last edited by merlin on Thu 28 Mar, 2013 9:49 pm, edited 1 time in total.

[north-north-west]

The summit rock looks...interesting

I trust it's not quite as . . . interesting . . . as the photo makes it look.
Have to go back for this one. The only summit on the whle circuit that the weather stuffed up.

[tibboh]

The summit rock looks...interesting

I trust it's not quite as . . . interesting . . . as the photo makes it look.
Have to go back for this one. The only summit on the whle circuit that the weather stuffed up.

Oh it's....interesting....alright.