A weekend on Portland - 3,4,5th June

9:00AM on Friday morning, and in the car we get, as lesson start all over the country, me and my dad are driving down the M6 foolowing signs of Weymouth.

When we arrived for our sport climbing weekend, we found the campsite, set up camp, then our next port of call was 'The Cuttings', an old railway cutting, from the quarrying days on the island. I had a good afternoon, Onsighting what turned out to be the hardest route of the weekend: 'Brief Encounter' (f6A+). On reaching the belay, i was confronted by a seagull with a wingspan of roughly 5 feet, presumably with chicks, on a ledge a few feet above me. I hastily faffed around at the lower-off and got the fuck out of there! Later that evening i climbed the classic 'Consomme' which is a flake crack which was a little damp, but also goes at f6A+.

View from 'The Cuttings'

Day 2: We got up fairly early, and walked into Blacknor North in the early morning sea breeze. Our plan was to work our way from north to south for as long as seemed sensible. However, by the time we got to the edge of the North section, we were both knackered, so we moved on to the semi-tidal boulders of 'Fallen Slab' and 'Fallen Slab Arete' (both f3) and 25m long.
Me at Blacknor North

Day three, we returned to the east coast, but to Battleship Edge this time, we didnt do much of quality that day, apart from a 1 star f6A climbed mainly for the name: 'Never Drive a Car When You're Dead'. we stopped climbing by 3PM and took a leisurly walk onto Chesil Beach, Britain's longest longshore drift.
Chesil Beach