With a mini heatwave setting in we just had to get out on rock this weekend. Rather than heading for limestome sport (my nice comfort zone) we decided to head up to Stanage popular as one of my main aims this year is to get my head into Trad climbing again after years focusing on sport. As AJ wisely says I need to 'wind your kneck in' and serve an 'apprentiship on grit'. Knowing how I get carried away we set strict limits for the day to do climbs graded up to Severe only. This would give us an opportunity to get lots of mileage, place tons of gear and rig up lots of anchors, climbing nice fun climbs well within our limits.
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AJ before he got to the bomber nut that was a bit too bomber...
We were pretty pleased to get ten routes done, most importantly all the placing gear and rigging up anchor skills came flooding back and did wonders for both of our confidence on trad and gritstone. On our next trip out on gritstone we will be working HS/VS and then the next trip VS/HVS and so on as we want to steadily progress our gritstone climbing (trad and bouldering) alongside limestone sport climbing.
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What a team :)
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