Pete Robins seconding me (a rare occurence, as I use him and caff as extreme rock guides) on Release From Treatment E6 Rainbow Slab. Incidentally on the same day that the photos were taken of me on the route by Ian Parnell for Pete’s Slate article.
Well, I ran into Jack G today whilst I was out with my friends kids, collecting more kids from the local school. Don’t us climbers know how to have fun. Anyway, it is a form of release from the real world for me, a chance to throw stones in the lake, watch the train, enjoy the sunshine and of course play on the swings!
Anyway, Jack mentioned that I have a contents page picture in CLIMB magazine this month, now given that I was very surprised to get an entire article, as well as the cover shot in Climber, it was a total double wammy for me to hear that CLIMB had chosen one of my images. It was a surprise as I hadn’t given them any images for months. I think it is the image above but I haven’t seen the magazine yet, as I went straight from the playground to a friends to go for a little bike ride.
That little bike ride was a little bit longer than I was expecting, we basically cycled for 2 hours along a sustrans cycle path from Cearnarfon to Portmadog, we decided to turn around when we saw the sun starting to get really close to setting and a sign that said cricceth 4 miles. Totally goosed now, but made up. What a few days, with the sun coming out finally, its seems that we are now well and truly into the post-monsoon season in North Wales, as summer seems to have arrived.
Can’t wait to be at work tomorrow, Lead Climb Coaching at PYB, if the weather holds up like it has the last couple of days it will be an amazing weekend!