I have over the years struggled to find the love for LPT and any steep limestone for that matter. Mainly because I am a dedicated trad ledge shuffler, as such i am not too hot on the frantic grab and pull of limestone climbing. However I have recently started to get it.
Tuesday was very much one of those days, typical for me in that i failed to reach the lower off even on the hard routes I had previously flashed! A pretty bad day for most, you would think, but I realised that’s what hard sports climbing is about, and whilst i might not have enjoyed it, I certain accepted it. What I did like was the social atmosphere.
There were lots of people down there with ropes up many hard routes, and more importantly quickdraws that i won’t have to sweat my arse of dogging my way to the top in order to recover them at the end of the day. One of those routes was La Boheme a classic F7b that Kate had nearly onsighted, blowing it on the final move totally pumped out of her mind.
I have put some of the pictures of her onsight attempt here, Kate went onto fail on her first redpoint after a foothold exploded. Ejecting her in spectacular fashion, still next time she’ll get it. As for me, I couldn’t get near the early crux. Anyway it was an awesome piece of climbing to watch.
