I had a call yesterday morning from Jack Geldard from UKC, he was in town for the first time in what seemed like years, as I hadn’t seen him since before I went away to the Americas. He was heading out to the slate with a group of climbing website owners from around the world, as UKC was hosting a small Online Climbing community gathering. I am sure they’ll be somethng on UKC about the event.
Anyway we headed up to The Rainbow Slab, and climbed all the routes on Bella Lugosi Slab, followed by a team ascending Pull my Daisy. After that we all headed to the Cig-arete level, and tried a few things up there. Sarah, Jack’s Girlfriend and an editor from a german online climbing site, made a rapid ascent of Cig-Arete, Pete BEal from an american site made short work of Sleight of Hand, and after I failed miserably on Taken over by department C, a few of the czech guys and I think Pete made quick work of that route.
I was inspired to have a pop on Cig-Arete on a rope, I wasn’t hoping for much as I found it really hard the last time I was on it, and was completely shut down. Feeling weaker, I had previous climbed Taken over by department C, when I was shut down of Cig-arete. A great thng happened though, I managed to climb the route, only falling off as I missed a blind hold. So good news is I did it very swiftly, the bad news is of course I have to go back for the red point!
Hope you like the pictures.