The summer has been rather busy this year, among, work, SPA Assessment, extra work, building wall alterations and attempting to get out climbing, there hasn’t been much time for rest and recuperation.
A quick round-up of the crags visited and routes I have done in the last 2 months.
A weekend trip to Shropshire. Saturday we visited the large LLanmynech Quarry, most routes being around 30m, the highlight being ‘Humpty Dumpty’ F6c+ ***. Sunday was spent at the short power endurance crag of Dinbren, a really nice natural limestone crag on top of a hill. Here I managed to flash the classic ‘The Bandits’ F7b+*** and RP ‘Elite Syncopations’ F8a ***, a great end to the weekend.
A flash trip back to Bristol for a days work and Ben and I were back on the road to North Wales. We had 4 days in the Llandudno area, conditions were not great for LPT so we ended up checking out a few of the A55 crags too. Llanddulas Cave being the best of the lot, we also visited Waterfall Crag… Surprise surprise it was wet!
We did get a couple of visits down to LPT over the 4 day trip, where I redpointed ‘I’ve Been a Bad, Bad Boy’ F7c+ *** (for the short) and on our last day somehow just about slapped my way up ‘Mussel Beach’ F8a ***.
A week of back pain followed, not surprising really! And then we were in with a weeks wall building at UCR. We made a few alterations to the bouldering room and a couple of volumes.
The Ingleton Waterfall Trail walk
Apparently it’s good luck in Yorkshire to hammer coins into dead, fallen tree’s!
3 days later Prajak + family, Aimee and I headed up to Yorkshire for a weeks camping in the rain! Having not climbed at all since North Wales I was pretty weak and tyered and we didn’t manage to do much climbing all week. Our last evening staying at Malham campsite Jak and I went for a quick evening session on a few short F7a/F7b’s and back to camp for a Thai curry dinner.
The most impressive waterfall of the walk
So not the most productive 2 months where climbing’s concerned and now we’re 5 weeks away from our Sirurana trip. I was hoping to be in really good shape right now and to keep the fitness up. Unfortunatly that is not the case… so… time to work my normal hours again, attempt to get back injury free and get fit again, without over doing it. Hmm… how would one go about that I wonder!?