Sunny rock climbing (Rock climbing)

Monday 15 June 2009 11:39AM

Just had a lovely two days rock climbing in North Wales with an my old friend Eric. Gogarth on the Saturday where we did Toiler on the Sea, a lovely E2 next to Britomartis, followed by the classic E5 Positron. I seconded the big headwall pitch on Positron but was pleased to lead the awkward pitch 2 clean. We also had some fun with the wake from the ferry – Eric got soaked to the waist on the approach and we had to spend 40 minutes or so drying in the sun. Sunday was spent at Scimitar ridge trying to coax swollen feet back into tight rock boots. I led a slightly dirty E2 called Chreon then Eric pulled out the stops on Killercranky (E5) before we went our separate ways, me for a run up Crib Goch and Eric for a boulder session at the Cromlech boulders.

If my climbing can improve a little bit, which it should living in the peak as I’m able to get out regularly, then I’ll be at the best climbing/running performance combo I’ve ever been, which would be quite exciting for the summer…

Still in North Wales as I’ve got an Msc module next week so it seemed silly to drive back to the peak, was planning to run the snowdon horseshoe today, but it’s just started raining. Damn…