Olly climbing Slug Club Special, E4 6a whilst being belayed by his dad.
Olly manages a smile in the Artic conditions
Olly climbing Seasmstress, trying to Warm Up!
Well, I can’t say the weather today was as nice as it was yesterday, but I did end up laying in bed with a hangover until midday. It all started with a misunderstand of the date on Facebook event, that is actually next weekend. Which meant I was a week early at the Fricsan in Cwm-Y-Glo, however that meant I was right on time for another great local group Banacabana (sic?), and some wicked afro beats to throw some bad shapes to!
It all ended in too much beer and a long dark walk along the cycle track back to Llanberis. It always gets me that track, basically a straight line from the Fricsan to the Village, yet I only walk it in the pitch dark when i have lost the ability to walk in a straight line or see of that matter. It was a good walk back and I only fell off the the path once, well I have a bruise and a vague recollection of falling.
So my lazy day was justified really. Although I did manage to squeeze in a walk to pick up the van, Pete’s Eat lunch, some photography and a climbing wall session. I hadn’t been out to P’eats for a while and there are a few very nice women serving in there at the moment. One used to brighten my day almost like clockwork when I was living in a house at the top of the Village, when she road past my house in jodpers. I almost lost the ability to talk when she served me today.
Anyway, we eventually headed out to the slate, so Olly could try and climb his hangover off, and so I could try and get some snaps. In my overly self critical nature I actually don’t like any of the images I took today (not olly’s Fault), save for one. It was too dark, and taking photos of an abseil rope in the cold, really increases the camera shake. So they pretty much all came out ‘soft’. You live and you learn.