An easy end to the week with a trip to Five Open Books. We had aimed to do more than just Munginella but the crag was roasting in the sun so we called it a day and left a great week of climbing in the valley behind.
Day 4 in the valley and a big day out for the Croatians, Andrew and myself. We beat the queues to the base of the route which gave us time to appreciate the 300m+ of awesome climbing overlooking El Capitan to our right. Andrew and I swung leads to the top and swept through the multiple abseils to be back just before dinner.
After a morning spent grovelling up chimneys at Church Bowl, Andrew and I went for a beer in the meadow with the Croatians and then headed to Manure Pile Buttress for an evening ascent of Nutcracker. We topped out to the beautiful light of sunset filling the valley below.
Day 2 in Yosemite, and I teamed up with Brooke and Heather for a trip up the Central Pillar of Frenzy. Five superb, hard pitches made for a very emotionally draining experience as my lack of ability at every flavour of crack climbing technique began to show.
A warm-up to a week in Yosemite, grovelling up some 5.10 single pitch routes at the base of Lower Cathedral Rock.
It's been a good weather weekend with Steve in the Peak District. We aimed to tick four classic rock routes at Stanage and Hen Cloud, which we achieved with plenty of time to spare, so squeezed in a couple more including the excellent gritstone climbs of Mississippi Buttress Direct and Robin Hood's Cave Innominate.
