Ann 71

 Saturday August 8th

Family get together - first since Christmas excepting of course the regular Zoom quiz sessions.

Blessed with perfect weather for a garden fuddle Chez Hez.  Lovely grub, fizz etc. and loads of catch up chat!  

Phil soaks it all up

Hosts doing a great job

Fabulous afternoon.

NYM Trad

July 29th

Feeling up for a switch from the top rope routine back to trad mode.  Where else to feel the way back but;

Scot Crags Scugdale

CB an ever present in year to date.  BP joined us for a chat and some lunch.  Not to mention a great set of third party pixels.  Great to be back in person after best part of five months.

What's more the crag was graced with the presence of the man responsible for getting me started on the last 22 years of climbing joy, Mr NP himself!  Still setting people off on their journey.

Marvellous.

AT ambles up an easy warm up.

Felt great though

CB makes it all look so easy

As usual

AT plays with a shape

Before finishing off the route a regulation one meter to the left. 

Pet's Corner was begging to be pawed over

AT has a peek at the pro spots

Gear in and go

Keep Calm

Top Out

CB woofs up it

NP gives bright young things the low down on lap coiling

BP back in his element

Hope to see some shapes soon

NP sticks with best practice

Keeping us all right as ever

Saints Wall S 4a

Pup's Climb S 4b

Pet's Corner HS 4b

Hadrian's Left (S 4b start)

Uncles (VS 4c)

Tooth and Nail HS 4c

Blaeberry Crack D

Scugdale Chimney VD

 

More Wind

Sunday 19th July

Hastily arranged flash return with CB for more top-roping at;

Windmore End

Completely forgot about the family quiz scheduled for 12.15 via Zoom.  So Mags had to go solo from our end.  Oh dear.

Anyway a few good routes done, no idea what they were except maybe Ardrox at 5a and Epitaph indirect at about 5b and C90 at 5b.

L-R

?

Epitaph

Scoop and Wall variation (AT)

Scoop and Wall (5c) CB

Ardrox (5a)

Ardrox one of my early HVS leads back at the start of this century

In the C90 area

CB on something steady

Three good routes around here.

(photomontage)

Unlocked

July 11th - 18th

Travel to second homes now authorised.  So time to do our civic duty and support the tourist trade.

Saturday- arrive
Sunday - Pete's chicken dinner special

Trip to Sussex Prairies 
Various sally forths along  the promenades.
Weather a bit windy, Monday and Friday both v warm
Friday - Curry Leaf Mags Birthday Brooker St delivery special.

At Sussex Prairies

A swift half on the front









Front features

4th Ave dawn


Venus
Moon

Another Ten!

Friday June 5th

The wonderful weather over the last few weeks disappeared and Friday was, as forecast, a meteorological melange.  So the sequence of family and friends drop in sessions was put off for another time if not another place.  And Amsterdam will still be above water in the coming months so we will get that trip back in the calendar.

Meanwhile we stayed in and had some fun!  P&P dropped by for socially distanced coffee and cake and chat in the garden room, festooned with flowers and plants arriving from all points north and south!

Festive!

Bunting

Looking good!












Bedecked

Cards

Bunting

Flowers

Plants

Gifts!



And CAKE!!!

Cake been got at.....

Bloomin marvellous!

Getting ready for the family ZOOM session





H and H not joined yet

Lasagne supper with foot scald incident

60's and seventies YouTube session followed by Sir Tom J

Saturday date night food from the Bay Horse

Sunday family ZOOM quiz.

ALL GO!

2020 vision

May 28th

After 10 weeks of mostly perfect climbing weather, finally felt able to get out onto the rock.  Given the prevailing constraints, CB's suggestion of a top roping session at a stake festooned venue only 40 minutes drive away sounded sensible in a social distancing kind of way.  So it was out in separate cars over the other side to;

Windmore End

CB took charge of setting up the TR anchors, sticking to the far RH wall right of the stone wall at the arrival at the RH end.  Three separate rigs used, 8 climbs in total (CB added two or three more) ranging from VD to 4c-5b.  A good 2 hours or so including some fingery technical routes, quite pleased to get up most of them without resting on the rope.  The new Jamming hands saw some action in the leaning crack of Sue (VS 4c) which was always a bit of a jibber on lead back in the day.

Glad we didn't start out here!

No problems keeping a goodly distance.


CB about to try the route right of Sue










A fantastic setting, and very user friendly

Classic CB




Spirits lifted.

Easy riders

14 May


Early days in the lockdown loosening


A simple spin to keep us on the move

Out towards Croft via Cleasby






Jolby Manor

Route 66

Take us to the bridge!