Wow, is all I can say about the weather this weekend, I spent Saturday at my friends kids 3rd Birthday party, playing football and bouncing around some soft play, not to mention eating cheese puffs, which is a food group I haven’t encountered much since my youth, and they truly are the food of champions.
I was up early, and climbing on the slate on sunday, did about 5 easy routes around the quarry, which was nice to get the mileage in, as well as introduce a slate virgin to the joys of the myriad of levels and crags. We warmed up around Looning the Tube, before eventually climbing the classic route that gives the area its name.
We then headed to Serengeti for some more seamstress action, before moving onto Nevernever Land to climb the first couple of pitches of Bryn Williams modern classic of 364 or some similar number, that when you know the relevance becomes quite sinister. The quarries were buzzing with climbers everywhere, and the new fence seemed to be keeping climbers away from Dali’s Hole and encouraging them to explore the other amazing area.
Neverneverland had three groups, us and a team on Kubla Khan and another on Short Stories. The sun was even warm! Hopefully the weather will stay like this, and even more importantly, it may have showed that the jetstream has moved allowing high pressure to rule. We shall have to see!
I heard a friend had broken his leg whilst climbing at Doris, falling off the last move of the E5 right of Byzantium Wall, when he pealed a flake off, with one hand literally over the tope of the crag. Hopefully he’ll make a hasty recovery!