Well, after Red Walls gogarth, today I headed out of Wales to the red walls of the sandstone quarry of Nesscliffe on the borders. The last time I went there many years ago, it was always wet, today though the rock was dry and the conditions were good.
We started with some ‘easy’ warm up routes, which were great E1 high ball boulder problems. Follow by Dave’s first play of the day on Berlin Wall, before I led Red Square, a simply awesome E2 corner. After which I follow Phil up the E5 to the right, which despite his cleaning was awefully dusty still, and by the time I made it to the top crux, my feet, which were sporting one of my rock shoes, and another of Dave’s, were flithy. Unfortunately this and power fade made me blow the last move of the route, it was an great lead by Phil though.
After that we moved round to project Dave, on Berlin Wall. He had another few attempts before Phil lead another rather dirty E3 up an arete/wall/crack. The top out was so hideous that he needed a rope. Afterwards dave had another couple of goes on Berlin Wall, his last of the day he hit the final jug but was ejected in spectacular fashion, which was a shame for him, but for you guys it means that