Finally I was looking forward to a rest day at last, but no, at the last minute, Craig managed to pursuade me (some sort of lie about the weather I think) that it would be a great idea to check out Simons Seat up on the Yorkshire Moors.  I agreed and after another long steep slog up a huge hill, we got our first glimpse of the remote moorland crag.

The rock up there is a funny pale grey colour gritstone, its really coarse and not very skin friendly but it offers amazing friction and has some bizzare formations with some giant chicken heads and lumps and pimples!

After a few hours, my skin was really suffering but, giving in to peer pressure, Craig and Luke kept pursuading me to try more problems, some of the best included Galaxy (F7A) and a super highball F6C (E3 6a) which I cant remember the name of, hats off to Craig for onsighting this problem/route which at 9 metres above a couple of skinny pads was a good effort!

Simon on Galaxy (F7A).

The first view of Simons Seat from the path.

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