After a hard day's work at Rock Over Climbing, Jake and I headed out to Higgar Tor last night for a bit of night bouldering. With fading light we managed to get warmed up and both ticked Dirty Higgar, a great low prow from a lying down start! After messing about on a few eliminates on the prow, we moved over to Quintessential Higgarisms, a great Font 7a blunt arete. After much frustration I managed to tick it, leading us to the classic Arete, at Font 7a+. This requires precise climbing and timing in order to stick the slap up to the finish. Unfortunately due to my height, gaining the finishing jug is very hard, so I was slapping the sloper below. After one slap which almost stuck, I begun to get worse, and we decided to call it a night! Hopefully I'll manage it next time!

Not a bad way to spend a Saturday night in my opinion!

Tom L

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