Postponed holiday re-opens the loop to join back in with BP and CB on their recent grit quest. Inspired by a UKC latest photo and returned to the shy buttresses at
Gardoms Edge
Tortuous drive through the uniformly red traffic lights of Sheffield city centre not to be repeated. But arrived in decent time, wandered up through the wood and eventually found our target area.
AT grabs a plum route seeing as it's his turn to lead
Shameless
A bit bold for first route of the day
An offset at knee level helps to reduce the flutter factor before the moves up to the next break.
The top ten feet is run out
A great variety of techniques required on N.M.C
CB demonstrates one of them
BP makes some smooth shapes on Velvet Cracks
Fancy footwork and a sequence of edgy side pulls lead to a rewarding hand hold
CB follows in fine fashion
Six climbers and two dogs arrive and swarm all over Apple Buttress
Time to move on
AT locates a placement to protect the rather improbable moves up the leaning off width that bars the way up Garden Face Crack
Turned out that
improbability
exceeded
gullibility
CB steps up, reliable as ever
Some cunning moves to the right tame the forboding offwidth
BP repeats the sequence
Improbable
But good
The route regains gullibility and reverts to something like a pleasant outing
Cave Gully Crack is very steep and worth all of HS4b.
Hand jams have to stay in to support a tricky transition from here
A tough lead tamed by Mr P going well
More jams in today than the total so far this year
AT looks for the key to
Garden's Gate
Another improbable route that would surprise a Vdiff leader
CB ups the ante on Garden Face Direct VS5a
Fine open climbing to finish us off
BP looks at a long reach to a sloper
Sidepulls come in handy
It keeps coming
About the right band to go with my current form
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