Happy new year!

Happy new year everyone! Lets hope for a year full of fun and adventures, not like today.... Recovering from last night, and with the weather being all grey and horrible.

Jim on the crux of Daddy Cool

Still yesterday was ok. I went to Tremadog with Jim to re-familiarise ourselves with rock climbing. For me I have not properly rock climbed for about 2 months. And its funny how out of practice you can get. Worrying about what we might have forgotten on leaving the house, and nearly forgetting the rock boots and chalk! And I was a real spanner trying to place fiddly small wires in the rock, its much easier to smash a bulldog in. We climbed Daddy Cool, Jim lead the hard pitch, and it was properly hard. The crag hadn't really dried very well, and the cracks were soaking, and it was cold, so semi-numb hands on slimy rock didn't exactly inspire confidence. Great route though! And nice to rock climb again. We then did Merlin Direct, in one mega pitch of 58 meters! Which was pretty cool.

Jim near the top of the Merlin Direct mega-pitch

It's getting cold again outside tonight, sub zero above 600m or so according to the weather reports. Monday looks to be a good day for winter climbing. Lets see how it goes anyway.