Take them yourself on your smartphone and hope that at least some of them are in focus and good enough to use?
Clip your camera onto your harness in the morning, and find it still there when you take your gear off at the end of the day, so get your clients together for a quick snap before they take their climbing gear off?
Give your phone or camera to one of the clients and give them the job of team photographer?
Read MoreWallowbarrow is a splendid valley crag providing a selection of routes to accommodate most tastes. Offering fast-drying wall climbing on clean and solid rhyolite, it is a popular refuge for climbers when the higher crags are wet. Called Low Crag on OS maps, it is anything but. An array of steep buttresses forming a mountain in itself, it has an appropriately precipitous skyline. It further enhances its impregnable air by overlooking woods of silver birch and oak carpeted with bracken.
Taken from the 1993 edition of the FRCC guide to Dow, Duddon and Slate
Camping in the high fells is one of the best ways to get away from all the busyness that fills our lives. It gives me time and space to slow down and to reconnect with nature. One of the best things about running MLA courses is the time spent out on expedition in the mountains. I love having breakfast in bed in my tent and then snuggling back into my sleeping bag for 15 minutes – a great way to start the day.
Read MoreThis huge barrel-shaped sweep of grey rock with its contrasting characters and fine situation is the jewel in Langdale’s climbing crown.
Thus opens the section in the FRCC about Gimmer, and I totally agree. Great rock, quick-drying routes, beautiful views – what’s not to like about Gimmer? With quality routes at a wide variety of grades, it’s hard to know where to start.
Read MoreThe recent announcement by the National Trust of their intention to introduce an outdoor activity licensing scheme for users of their properties and land has ruffled feathers in the outdoor industry, to put it mildly. The scheme runs as a pilot until September 2016 across 21 sites, including all NT land in the Lake District (more than a quarter of the Lake District).
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