Peak Bake Off

Tuesday 24 July
The weathermen have been wittering on about a mini heat wave sweeping the UK, so it seemed sensible to seek out a suitably amenable venue.  Ravenscar could have fitted the bill nicely, but it was time to travel further afield and so to the sylvian glades and sweeping lines of;

Lawrencefield

AT's carefully calculated Sequential Event Timeline Control system was immediately kiboshed.  BP made the round trip to Hathersage in record time and playtime was soon under way.

BP sliding up in the morning shade on Snail Crack in red pants and matching harness.

Across the way a team who'd driven up from from Oxford! tackle Three Tree Climb

AT sports a sartorial style and strikes a shapely pose, paying homage to the absent Mr B.

Red pants de rigeur today 

BP latches the good holds in the niche before launching up the leaning finishing wall on Tyrone

Nova holds on to a bit of shade


A series of puzzling moves lead to a more straightforward but dusty finish.

Climber takes a bite out of the run out finish on Gingerbread.

It's no cake-walk.

Gave it a miss - friction compromised by the soaring temperatures now at thirtysomething

Limpopo Groove a much more appealing option.  For once!


Very good climbing

AT ready to make the same moves as featured in the first pic above.



By now feeling pretty well baked off.

AT comes second in red pants run off.

A great venue for the conditions, welcome shade between climbs and also on some routes, no midges, easy walk in.

And handy shops.

And Pubs!

The Dark Side of the Moors

Wednesday July 17th
After Sundays trip the option to join in with TM and MT was too good to miss, what's more the target venue was high on our list so it had to be all systems GO for a return to the unaccountably under-used buttresses at;

Raven's Scar
BP's rack augmented with a wire brush to fettle some of the less well traveled routes

TM and MT seen from the forest path finishing up on Forest Face

AT follows suit, sorts out rope ready for moving up on green

The mission handbook calls for a big nut here

The moves up the headwall are,

as usual,


great.

MT helpfully hung around to bring us up Sam's Stretch.

Would be a committing lead, could do with swapping a stone of lard for seven pounds of beef.

Drift a little right followed by a rock over onto a safe landing on a small ledge

Monkey Nut
Another new lead for BP

Much better than it looks with a very definite but well protected crux up through the impending groove.




AT followed on with a two pitch lead on Evening Wall.  Horticultural.

Another battle up the bulging corner of
En Passant.

AT on Waterslide

The LH start was quite dirty until BP gave it a good seeing to.




The objective was the variation finish, as demonstrated by TM below.

 © TM 2018

Unfortunately AT goofed up the rope work and obliged himself to a finish up the normal way


Next time sometime soon.