Projects

We’ve spent the first few weeks getting to know the crags and seeking the out the best climbs and potential projects [harder climbs to spend time practising, so that we can eventually climb them in one attempt without resting/falling]. The climbing here is generally steep and over-hanging, with a good mix of technical wall climbing and steep, powerful tufa climbing. We have faired better on the technical wall routes, but these are extremely sharp and crimpy and take their toll on the finger tips! We have tried the steep tufa climbing too, but it often ends in lots of swearing and falling off! We are not expert at tufas yet, but improving slowly!

Claire is climbing really well and has on-sighted [lead-climbed to the top without resting/falling, with no prior knowledge of the moves] her first F6c. She also has a F7b project she wants to red-point [lead-climb to top without resting/falling, after previous attempts practising the moves]. I’ve on-sighted F7a and have red-pointed F7b. I now have two F7b+ projects and am looking for a good F7c…

{This is another climber on one of my projects - he made it look slightly easier than I did!}