The Call of the Raven

13 June 2021

2019 was a bumper year for visits to this widely underrated venue, with four visits between May and August that year. The feast turned into a famine for 2020, apart from one little looky with CB in September that year, that day the crag was pretty grungy so we pressed on the the Wainstones.   After 21 months absence hopes are high for catching up this year, so it was great when an out of the blue message on Saturday announced the prospect of a return to the daunting buttresses of;

Raven's Scar

   

9am at Clay Bank car park so the milky sun was still catching some of the prominent aretes and faces when we arrived.

Forest Face offers a brilliant start.

The iphone was on video setting so this is a scrape from a half second video clip.

Pity that, could have been a good one.

MT focusses on sorting his feet ready for some delicate footwork up in a fine position.

TM resets his leader rack and floats upwards on Airlift.

Short clip (best played full screen)

MT follows in good order

TM latches the side pull that offers the key to the lower crux on Via Anna

Shaping up

AT leads the improbably named Sunshine Slab.   Eponymous?  Moi?

TM En Passant pictured.

(photomerge with some artistic license)

It's a fair cop Guv....

An album for the times on route home