Another great day off work!
1st Mar 2011
After 9 days work in a row and its time for a few days off!
The sun was shining but I had nobody to play with, it was time to head to Stanage for a soloing session. I rocked up to popular end, feeling a little rusty, I've not soloed in ages, so i decided to start off at the Manchester Butress area, I know these routes well and pretty soon I was back in the swing of things ticking most of the classic HS - HVS routes in that area.
After scampering up about 15 routes I decided to pop my trainers on and mooch over to another favourite area of mine, April Crack. I started with a quick scamper up narrow butress (fantastic jug at the top!) then decided to go for Queersville (HVS) I have soloed this before but only once or twice, I always make sure im going well before getting on it as it always feels quite committing but today it went without a hitch. I continued ticking most of the routes up to E2 in this area, all of them classics and all well travelled. The weather was glorious and I even had my top off for a while (apologies to anyone who witnessed my pastey white back!).
After another 15 or so routes I decided to call it a day but on the drive back I stopped at the High Neb car park, a friend of mine has recommended a good E5 (Goosey Goosey Gander) so I thought I would mooch up and check it out..... it looks amazing!
I ran back down to the car and all I can think about now is waiting for the route to dry out properly then going for the on sight!
Happy days :)
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