Hot and sunny

This weekend was sun filled and full of climbing too, on Saturday me and Rich headed down to boulder ruckle to get on some trad lines. As it’s still early in the season we are just getting on HVS and E1 at the moment. We abseiled in to the ruckle to get on “Aventura”, rich took the first pitch and headed up by chimleying his way up to the first belay. I came up to the belay to find two guys on a route to the right of us with a stove out making coffee. It was my turn to take the lead on the last pitch, amazing steep fun climbing.

We then decided to climb another HVS called “Jo” this route was defiantly a 3* route with rich leading the first pitch and me leading the 5a pitch just another amazing steep finish to a nice grove.

On Sunday me and my dad decided to go down to winspit and climb some old favourites, we also met an old friend and climbed with them on some nice routes. 

Altogether another really nice weekend, hopefully the weather will be good for another weekend as I’m heading up to the grit to try some stuff up the next weekend.

More sun more climbing

Another weekend of sunny Dorset climbing, Saturday had us going down to Portland to blacknor north to do some sport climbing. this day was amazing as the sun was out the shorts were on (for a little wile) and climbing was going well, we started off by heading up two 6a's and a 6b to warm up and then went around to try onighting a 7a+ called Whilst the Cat's Away this lead me to falling of trying to clip the bolt on the crux. I then went up to the top but didn’t try it again as the bottom was just too snappy for me.
I then went around to see how my friend mike was getting on climbing "Is vic there" 7a, he climbing really well and made it to the top on his redpoint. After seeing him do it and taking photo's I decided to have a go on top rope, my first impressions were I don’t think ill lead this but after I came down before I knew it I was on lead clipping the lower offs.

Sunday was another day of collecting some millage down at blacknor north and south. I decided to solo one of the slab climbs on fallen slab.

This weekend coming will lead me and rich to climb some trad down swanage can’t wait

photo's by tommy harris

Another sunny weekend

As another weekend goes by more climbing has been done, this weekend had me heading down to swanage sea cliffs getting on some trad climbing. Me and Rich met up and headed down to Boulder ruckle to get on some trad lines, we abseiled in and got straight onto a E1 called ellysium, rich was going to take the lead on this route and off he went soon to be stoped by the crux and the big wet crack, as he tried and tried he finally fell off after slipping off wet holds. 

Now it was my turn not to get much further i managed to get up under the roof but it was just too wet for me. We ended up climbing lightening wall HVS and after that Finally Grove HVS.

On Sunday I headed down to Portland to check out some sport routes, I only ending up doing Hysterical Solitude 6c, this route was a good route i thought maybe a little soft for the grade but still a really good route.

Roll on next weekendfor some more climbing !!!!

The beginning to Blogging

Well it’s about time I joined in to the world of Blogging,

I’ve started the year off very well so far I have been climbing every weekend and will do all year, my main goal for this year is to climb as many routes as I can and every now and then do some hard climbs,

I started the year off by heading down to Portland and clipping some bolts, to start with I was aiming to get some mileage and get as many routes done as I can, this soon changed after I started to get side tracked into the 7a's.

Before I knew it I was on a flight to Italy to join my friend James to climb some ice!!! The whole experience was amazing well for me any way. I had not done much on the ice tools before only what I had done on alpine routes, James was a great guy to climb with as he can really use his tools well as I just swing and hoped for the best, on the last day we decided to go and climb a grade 5 and it was just unreal, even though its not a massive grade for ice but just the experience was just unreal,

After finishing up in Italy I was back to climbing on the rock, after a few trips down Portland me and my friend Rich went down to guillemot Ledge in swanage to get on some trad an excellent day out ending up topping out in the dark after the last E1 of the day.

This weekend was a good one as me and Stu went up to Cheddar gorge and climbed two of the multi pitches there "Castle made of sand" 6c and "Stone Cold Fever" 6b+ both amazing climbs.
Sunday ended up going down to Portland and mainly taking photos but was also good as the sun was out, no wind and at one point no t-shirts (in march),

More post to follow up after the next climbing session

Here are some photos of the last few months climbing: