STG: Get a couple of days climbing in on UK family visit mid August
MTG (2015): redpoint two more 7a’s and a 7a+
LTG (2016/2017): Redpoint 7b (Sautanz)
Late entry this weekend due to spending time in remote locations with primitive internet e.g. my sister's cottage in Norfolk.
M-T: Visiting family in Norfolk
W: Peak with Kelvin. WCJ Cornice, working Incapacity Benefit. Felt utterly ridiculous on the first go, by the fourth go very possible, like it should go in 2 or 3 more attempts. It is more sustained than the 7a's I've done, but not *that* much harder. Thoroughly worthwhile route and an excellent crag, I'll be back here too.
T: Token Trad Day, Staden: Joint Effort, Suscipiat, wimped out of the precarious and scary top groove of The Nails. It struck me that the routes in the HVS-E1 range here appear to get traffic, but the good & formerly much travelled E3s to the left - Paraplege, Wipe Out, Telescopic Demand - are lichenous, grassy and look like nobody has been on them for years. I wanted a physically easier day before more goes on The (New) Proj, but this turned out to be a mistake because ...
F: Rain. Hung out in Hathersage in the morning, went to Rubicon at lunchtime but further up the dale was obviously clagged in and hopeless. Right end of Rubicon was dry so had a play on Small But Perfectly Formed, but had no idea whatsoever what to do on the finishing move.
S-S: Visiting family in Norfolk, Part the Second
Incapacity was encouraging even though I didn't get the tick: 7a+ is clearly within my grasp even on notoriously stiffly graded and difficult to read Peak lime.
