From the base, I think this was 400ft total? I forget.
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Spent the weekend in garriwerd / the Grampians on a rock climbing club trip, where I got to do a couple of days trad leading (this is a style of climbing where you take the rope up with you as you climb, and put various devices into crevices and cracks in the rock to stop you if you fall, which means you leave nothing behind—unless one jams in so hard that you can't retrieve it) It's very cerebral, and very slow, particularly when you're a newbie. It's so much fun.
At the other end of the park my daughter was doofing at the Pitch festival. Unfortunately* we couldn't hear it at Stapylton camp ground.
Anyway here's an owl I saw at the crag. And Wudjub guyn / Stapylton Amphitheatre where I did not climb, with banana for scale.
#owl #climbing #TradClimbing #garriwerd

I'd kinda forgotten I'd made this video; throwback to last month's trip with Jeremy and Robin - day two and there was trad. Port Eynon's Boiler slab is, indeed, impressively slabby and quite imposing. Not a great camera angle on this one; the routes start a scramble up the grassy, stepped bit of the slab until you hit the steeper rock, and finding a camera perch that completely captured the route and the actual angle of the wall was clearly far more effort than I put in! Still, this was a great line in a gorgeous location, with good company. Robin did a great job seconding this one, once he found his mojo again after the wounding the day before. Definitely somewhere to go back to and maybe get some trad try-hard going.
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Sometimes when crack climbing, the crack strikes back. (actually it strikes back every time...) #selfie
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Joanna with a spicy traverse lead.
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New crag for the ever-excellent Sue Lambooij and I - decided on as much because a route called "The Lesser of Two Weevils" ought to be climbed as any other - over by Weston Super Mare. Uphill Quarry was great as it turned out, apart from the... "colourful" locals having a "bbq". The view's pretty good, the anchors and ab-points solid (more solid than some of the rock anyway!) and mostly quiet - "wildlife" aside, we were the only climbers until the locals showed up for an evening climb. Oh, and the café had pretty good hot chocolate!
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Going up?
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Final climb from Bowden Doors yesterday - around 7pm and still hot in a t-shirt! This is "Black and Tan", a 2-star Severe on Main Wall... nice. 👌
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Obviously not today!! 🤣 This was Wednesday at Simonside #Northumberland and before the heatwave. #Climbing #TradClimbing #RockClimbing