2013 was a bit of a non-entity climbing-wise, and 2014 was in danger of going the same way, until I realised in late June that I was really missing trad climbing, and should do something about it! After that there was a brief flurry of trips with various friends (which, unhelpfully, I wrote up on LJ not here).
First, we went to Wales in July. On Saturday, we climbed on the pillow lava of Craig Y Tonnau (4 climbs, VD, VD, S, S); with hindsight I regret not having a go at Brewer's Troupe, a VS with what looked like a pretty plausible crux - that would have improved my best-ever leading grade, and as it turns out I didn't get anything harder than S this year. Sunday was about showing![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
naath multipitch stuff and giving them their first leads (3 climbs, VD, D, D) on the gentle Tryfan Fach.
The second trip was also to Wales, withdiziet. On Saturday, we did a couple of the multi-pitch routes at Clogwyn yr Oen in the Moelwyns (2 climbs, VD S-escaped-onto-VD), the second of which was a switch of route party-way up. On Sunday we snuck two climbs in on Tryfan Fach (D, M, both in big boots and wet & windy conditions) before Hurricane Bertha's tag end turned up and made climbing impossible.
Finally, in October, despite a slightly iffy forecast, we went for a day trip to Birchen Edge in Derbyshire, and climbed on grit; the advantage of grits titchy little routes is that you get lots of ticks! (7 climbs, D, VD, VD, VD, VD 4a, HVD 4a, S4a; 1 failure, VD) I semi-fell down a horrible thrutchy chimney twice before giving up on it as a bad job; I should probably work on my chimneying :-/
Indoors, I got to Harlow pretty regularly (37 times), and sneaked a trip to an indoor wall in Bristol with a colleague. Best grades were 6B on lead, 6C+ on top-rope.
So, in numbers:
38 indoor climbing trips
5 days climbing outside (18 ticks)
I improved my indoor grades, but not my outdoor ones. This year, I should try and start climbing earlier in the year!
First, we went to Wales in July. On Saturday, we climbed on the pillow lava of Craig Y Tonnau (4 climbs, VD, VD, S, S); with hindsight I regret not having a go at Brewer's Troupe, a VS with what looked like a pretty plausible crux - that would have improved my best-ever leading grade, and as it turns out I didn't get anything harder than S this year. Sunday was about showing
naath multipitch stuff and giving them their first leads (3 climbs, VD, D, D) on the gentle Tryfan Fach.The second trip was also to Wales, with
diziet. On Saturday, we did a couple of the multi-pitch routes at Clogwyn yr Oen in the Moelwyns (2 climbs, VD S-escaped-onto-VD), the second of which was a switch of route party-way up. On Sunday we snuck two climbs in on Tryfan Fach (D, M, both in big boots and wet & windy conditions) before Hurricane Bertha's tag end turned up and made climbing impossible.Finally, in October, despite a slightly iffy forecast, we went for a day trip to Birchen Edge in Derbyshire, and climbed on grit; the advantage of grits titchy little routes is that you get lots of ticks! (7 climbs, D, VD, VD, VD, VD 4a, HVD 4a, S4a; 1 failure, VD) I semi-fell down a horrible thrutchy chimney twice before giving up on it as a bad job; I should probably work on my chimneying :-/
Indoors, I got to Harlow pretty regularly (37 times), and sneaked a trip to an indoor wall in Bristol with a colleague. Best grades were 6B on lead, 6C+ on top-rope.
So, in numbers:
38 indoor climbing trips
5 days climbing outside (18 ticks)
I improved my indoor grades, but not my outdoor ones. This year, I should try and start climbing earlier in the year!
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