Last week's sampler provided Team Peak with plenty of food for thought. In the meantime two overlapping hit lists were compiled, more than a dozen possible routes packed with action and challenge.
So expectations off the scale and aspirations all pumped up by the prospect of some fine climbing on some testing terrain at....
Stanage Edge
An early meet at Wetherby and at the crag in good time and high spirits
First on the list, a really good intro on Balcony Cracks at S4a.
Big, steep and steady
BP makes it all look deceptively easy
Thrombosis VS 5a (and some)
AT makes a vain attempt before losing heart.
Reverses back down and hands over to BP
But it's off vertical and out of balance. The adjacent route (Rigor Mortis 4c) was found to be stiff and lacking gear.
Another retreat follows.
Oh dear.
The hit list hits back! The ignomy!
That hissing noise is the sound of Team Peak's collective ego deflating.
Time for a post mortem
A quick review of the list turns up something hopefully actually doable
So AT starts a comeback of sorts with some merry moves up Robin Hoods Crack (HVD 4a)
Hold onto those wires!
A walk in the woods by comparison
BP mashes up on Tea Leaf Crack, another confidence builder
Back to the list on
Four VS 4c
A nice little number
Just enough gear
Shuffle right from here to a great thread that helps take the sting out of an exposed finish up the little wall
BP gobbles up Muesli (HS 4c)
The starting moves give plenty of food for thought, reachy and tenuous
AT messed about with the start of Cornflake (VS5a) which follows the wall on the right, before abandoning the attempt(?) and whistling up the next route - Boot Crack at VDiff
Just time to crowbar one more route in, back on the list with the superb Right Twin Crack VS 4c
A very fine lead just about completes the
rehabilitation of Team Peak
Supplementals
Thrombosis
Follows the leaning crack centre pic
Rigor Mortis
The wide crack on the right
Robin Hoods Crack (L)
Tea Leaf (R)
Four
Muesli (L)
Boot Crack (R)
Cornflake (not done) goes up the face in between
Route around the Friday Sheffield rush hour
Open fast driving most of the way
