The other week myself and Dave made a flying one day visit to Stanage. Because Stanage is about five hours from home we had a early start picking Dave up from Canterbury at 4am. After a long drive along very boring and monotonous roads we finally pulled up at Stanage around 9am to find it lightly raining. Typical!. Any other day we would of pulled the car around and gone home but due to the length and effort we'd taken to get here we were not just going to go home. We decided to a have a warm up on the boulders beneath the plantation area. after a few hours we had a good number of ticks under our belt including a favorite boulder problem of mine Hourglass. Its a one move wonder really but its a good one. we got kicked back on a fee of the classic hard problems such as Brad Bit and Deliverance but its all part of the fun. Something to work towards!. Neither of us had a guide book for the bouldering so spent most of the time just playing on what we thought were good and interesting lines. There are some videos and pictures of us bouldering in the menu to the right.
The weather was still poor and due to the cold beginning to take effect we decided we would head back to the car for a bite to eat a blast the heaters. After lunch we got the rack out the boot and headed back up for a few climbs. Dave had no experience of trad climbing so we broke him in gently with a few serves and by the end of the day he was comfortably leading VS. We had enough time before dark to get some practice in with anchor management and then headed back to the car. The drive home seamed to take forever but service station coffee is a remarkable wake up especially when they tell you the price.
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