Final Days Of The Good Weather Weekend…. Flappers and Sending

On the Saturday bad weather forced us from Sheffield to Craig y Longridge, I thought this was a pretty amazing crag its an overhanging grit stone face. Sadly I couldn’t do anything too hard as the crimps hurt my skinless tips. Below are some photos of some people that did manage to climb.

 Bob Hickish complete with injured finger on a V7 traverse

  Unknown climber on ‘Sub Marine’ V10

The Peaks had dried out on the Sunday which meant we could head out and I could attempt to clear some problems off my Grit List!

Unknown climber topping out over a beautiful Burbage Valley
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First stop was ‘7 Ball’ F6C in my opinion one of the best problems of the grade at Burbage South.

The Damage to my finger caused by ‘7 Ball’ I sent it in the end though! 

Alex Matthews-King going for the arête on ‘7 Ball’

Gavin Harness preparing to slap upwards  

Gavin Harness going for the ‘good holds’ on ‘7 Ball’.  

Once ‘7 Ball’ had seen enough attention, we progressed to Attitude Inspector, another problem on my Grit List. Gav made a quick repeat send, this gave me the encouragement I needed to latch the hold.

 Gavin Harness on the classic ‘Attitude Inspector’ F7A  
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Bouldering for the day was finished at ‘Crash & Gurn' which became personal for Gav after it claimed a massive chunk of his pinky, see below.

 Gav’s finger after ‘Crash & Gurn’ 

Bob finished off the day with a sunset lit solo of ‘Pebble Mill’ E5 6b

 Bob Hickish completing ‘Pebble Mill’ as the sun drops behind the horizon.

Day 1 of The Epic Peak Weekend

A good forecast means that there should be a lot of peak grit climbing happening this weekend. A few pictures below from this afternoons session.

 Bob Hickish trying ‘Electrical Storm’

 Bob Hickish trying the start to ‘Electrical Storm’

 Bob Hickish on the sit start to fellow southerner Pete Oxleys ‘The Alliance’

Hopefully there’ll be more photos to come from the rest of the weekend if the good weather holds out!

Good Conditions and Yellow T-Shirts

On Wednesday me, Gav, Kieran and Jon. Headed out to Burbage North to take advantage of the good grit conditions and we all left with much less skin than when we went out. Some of the photos from the trip are below. I've converted these into JPEG as the last set of photos from Raven Tor seemed to look quite flat and de-saturated when put on the blog.

Kieran warming up on a solo  Jon on the warm up solo. 

Kieran going for the slopers on Three Blind Mice

Jon trying to get establish on the slab on Three Blind Mice