The start of summer...kind of.

Me and my dad headed out to Stanage Popular end for the day on 11th April, and as we set off the cloud came over, but we were at the carpark by that time. so we wandered up, hopefully to Robin Hood Right Hand Buttress. between the showers we managed a good selection of three star routes, including: Hargreaves Original Route (VS 4c), Robin Hood's Right-hand Buttress Direct (HS 4a) the splitter crack line of the popular end, easily definable from the road, and Bishops Route (S 4a). Just as we started packing up, we hear and then see the Mountain Rescue helicopter, which was worrying abut interesting, on arrival of the carpark, the hilicopter is parked (or landed...) in the field nextdoor, near this sign:It turns out a climber had his abseil anchors come out whilst he was just going over the edge of Mississippi Butress.

That was the first day of a week aff school, so on that wednesday i arranged to get a lift to Hathersage with my mum and pick Ellie Boylan up and drop us both off at the bolt clipping crag, Horseshoe Quarry. But not after a stop in Outside for bags of chalk, one for me and one for Liam Copley, the owner of www.red-tips.com, who was going to come and give Ellie her red tips shirt on his way to Rubicon. Whilst he went somewhere (proberbly to look at a pebble, or as he calls them boulders) we hid his mat halfway up the cliff.

Me and Ellie had a very sucessful day, in between the showers of heavy rain.

A few wednesdays later, 'the Wednesday Gang' decided a trip to Windgather Rocks was in order. Although there isnt much i can push myself on, there is an awful lot of solo-able short routes. so i did that. and only led one route all night, 'Portfolio' (HVS 5b), my hardest onsight to date.