Saturday at Gogarth was probably my best single trad climbing day to date. Five great routes, including the 5 pitch sea cliff adventure Gogarth. Sunday began in a small snow blizzard, but quickly cleared to provide sunshine for the 12 pitches of the Avalanche/Red Wall/Longlands continuation.
I'd want to do some self-rescue training for a long time, so Clay sorted us out with a guide for day to run through the fundamentals of escaping the system and rescuing hapless seconds. All Will needs to do now is learn to climb again!
Day 2 of George & Rob's Cornish Granite weekend was spent at Sennen. Cracking sunshine and razor sharp rocks.
Despite making dozens of trips to North Wales, none of us had ever heard of this little scramble and hill, tucked away behind the Nantlle Ridge. It makes an excellent day out, with some superb, airy steps across the pinnacles of the ridgeline.
Sheffield hosted the Adventure Film Festival this weekend. I had tickets from Saturday afternoon onwards, which left just enough time to fall off a couple of E1s at Stanage in the morning beforehand. There were many many great videos on show, a couple of the shorter ones are embedded below.
We took a chance the rain would clear and were rewarded with a fine day at Shepherd's. Cat was quite new to outdoor multi-pitch so we climbed Ardus and then Crescendo which both featured fantastic final pitches.
