Clay and I set off with good intentions in the morning but it was far too cold and biting to contemplate a long rock route on Tryfan's East face. Instead, we nipped up the north ridge scramble and took a lap around back to the car. Chilly.
A great day out with Steve, Ali and Sophie climbing at Goblin before the rain came. Since Steve has ticked every route below E1 approximately 500 times, I just chose what I wanted to climb and got on with it.
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.
