Myself, Byron and Paddy shot to north wales for a 2 day trip....
The first day saw us at the cave where paddy dispatched the right wall traverse, his first V6/7a, great success! I repeated a few things and managed to link sections of lou ferrino together, very much de-psyched by the cave for the moment though. Byron showed me his mental "miss all the bad holds" beta on clever cleaver and looked very strong on the full 7c link from the sit. He then went on to bash out the pill box original with ease, a pretty stiff v6/7a.
With the sun heading down we then headed to the little orme to meet up with bob and his imperial uni cronies and check out angel bay. A pretty uninspiring venue in my personal opinion although a good time was had by all dossing about on the beach.
Beer and burger in spoons and a night at the imperial uni climbing hut with no water supply!
The next day we headed to the pass for a general mooch about. I got spanked by jerry's roof again, i think there is a bit of a mental block issue with this problem so i've decided to just forget about it for the time being! I had a quick look at/play on the lizard king which is on an amazing bloc up on the hillside (looks like a potential for next time) and did a few problems there up to 7a+. Bob dispatched the heel hook traverse and him and byron got agonizingly close to the cromlech roof crack.
A good little trip, lots of easy problems done and fucking glorious views and weather!
Boulderers and blue sky and Byron on Pill Box Original.Home and rest. ...headed to ravens tor with gav. Ben's roof went down first time this time round woooooo! I also did powerhumps (the hard way) which is hard! Shot back a couple of days later with gav and max and i managed to bust out the powerband which was cool.
Ben's Roof.
Powerband.
Yesterday i headed to the churnet with max to check out Ina's rock with dom and eddie. We met them at wrights where after a warm up we all had attempts at thumbs (its still nails) and the route fingers in every pie (E6 6c). First time I've tied in for a while but it was great fun :D
Dom on Fingers in Every Pie and Eddie getting ballsy at Ina's.We then headed for Ina's. Dom and I did Ina City Riot a really cool e4 6b solo. Eddie showed off hiss massive kahonas by soling some very high things. I then jumped on Thumbalina a super highball v6 or e6 6b, managed this second go. Absolutely amazing route and left me fully buzzed for the rest of the day! Finished off with doing jacquimo (an awful 7b) and trying Cornelius which looks amazing and goes at highball v9/7c or E8. Very Keen for this.
The high top out of Thumbalina.
All in all a cracking week or so!
