Me: Joe, I feel rough. I think I've got car sick for the first time in years
Joe: Just take deep breaths
Rosie: Yeah, just walk around a little
Me: Yeah, good idea I'll probably be fi-*BLUUUUURGH*-ne, ugh maybe I won't be fine...
Joe: Are you sure you're alright? You haven't eaten anything funny?
Me: Well, I had waffles and maple syrup for break-*BLUUUUURGH*-fast, probably wasn't the easiest thing to digest -*BLUUUUURGH*
Rosie: Caelan, your vomit is pink... That's not healthy!
Me: Hmmmm, that's a good point Don't worry I'm just shedding weight for the hard climbs, I'll be fine in a min-*BLUUUUURGH*-ute
Joe: I think you should take it easy today Caelan, The road here is very windy
Me: Well, I seem to have emptied my bowels, shall we head up and climb? We'll see if i'm up to zig zag double direct (I wasn't)
Auspicious beginnings I hear you jeer, rather unsurprisingly the day continued with as much success as it began (with a lot less vomit).
Glen Clova in the sunshine, The weather was one of the few things that went to plan |
Pushing through the Crux |
After the wild ride |
The next route on the agenda was in my opinion the best of the day: Proud Corner (VS 4c, though it felt quite soft) The name is a bit of a misnomer, it is more of a face climb than anything else. I can't really put my finger on what made it so fun, It was relatively bold with some nice techy moves on easy angled ground, the polar opposite to cauldron crack.
Getting run out on proud corner, the crag classic |
The traitorous cams just in view |
Looking down Red Wall. |
Climbing as a three had slowed us down meaning we only had time for one more route that day, Joe decided to go for Wandered (HVS 5a). The climb is easy until an overhanging hand crack is reached, which you pull through with difficulty to reach a large ledge. The climb then traverses out onto the arĂȘte, which you finish up on with good holds. Joe began up the route but couldn't finish the overhanging crack section and came down to let me finish.
Rosie slacking off and Joe out of focus on the climb. |
If we ignore that a lot of things didn't really go as expected (and the car sickness) It was actually a great day of mountain cragging in glorious sunshine! I can't wait to get on longer mountain routes though. It looks like Centurion on the Ben could be in the pipeline.
Glen Clova |