Slate Days

After work I had a short beaconeering session. The wall was back to the good old Sunday scene, with just a handful of people, meaning that we almost had the wall to ourselves. Although there was the owner of a website/business that has the tagline the ‘Snowdonia’s premiere outdoor activity provider’ or some such rubbish. Anyway, it was the first time I had ever heard of the company, I must get out more!

My arms felt sore this morning, so I took my time heading to the quaaries, where I was back in vivian quarry with my shunt or “Billy No Mates Belay Device”. I climbed or should I say ruined the onsight of two routes Love Minus Zero a Down to Zero, as a warm up, before I dropped my rope down the rather nastily named Menstrual Discharge a F8a+ near the dervish.

The good news was that none of the moves felt excessively reachy, bad news was that some of the moves were extremely hard, the crux being utterly desperate. It might just might be possible for me to climb it, although it won’t be a quick ascent, in fact working hard routes on a shunt I find it virtually impossible to tell whether I can climb a route or not. It has allowed me to make the shapes and link a few moves. We will have to see, I seem to have a growing number of hard projects, I might have to start actually trying them now!!!

Menstrual Discharge
Menstrual Discharge

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