OK, I have been back climbing at the climbing wall for, 2 weeks and it is now time to attack some real rock.
We went off to Swanage for the weekend with Caths brother Simon, and dragged the (many) kids to the crag. They were very accomodating and it was all rather nice in fact.
On Saturday Simon and I nipped off to conner cove to do some deep water soloing (new thing for me) and scared ourselved silly downclimbing to the bottom down a diff. We both did Troubled Waters (HVS 5a) which went ok, then I tried the Congar (E2 5c) which was soaking wet. Basically either I fluffed the crux or am totally rubish or perhaps both, but ended up in the brine (see below). It was a totally exciting experience and am really keen to go back.
Next day went to Hedbury and the kids did a route, Cath waltzed up a 4+ which looked really hard, and I did Moves For The Masses (6a+) which was really fun and went without too much bother. It was nice to know I can do 6a+ ok and it gives me a nice starting point to build from. Its a hell of a long way to 8a from here though.
2 comments:
Nice one Steve. Perhaps I shouldn't have laughed so loudly when I was too scared to have a crack at it myself....Next time, when it is dry!
Don't worry Steve, my friends do unhelpful things when I crash my mountain bike like laughing or telling me "Chris, stop crashing!". That's what friends are for
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