Chee Dale Two Tier Buttress
28th Jul 2011
Today I headed to Two Tier at Chee Dale with Dan, I had not been here before so was excited to try some new routes. After putting the clips in Countdown (7a+) and checking and cleaning the holds I had a quick top rope of the route, it was fairly straight forward apart from a stopper move below half height. After spending a bit of time figuring out the move and practicing it a few times I lowered to the ground for a rest. On my first redpoint attempt I climbed the bouldery starting moves up to the crux fine but my fingers were a bit cold still so were slightly numb on a tiny left hand crimp which is the key to the crux, i went for it anyway but failed to latch the good hold above so lowered straight to the ground. After a quick shakeout on the ground my fingers were feeling fully warmed up so I jumped straight back on, blasted through the crux and climbed on to the top :)
After this we tried a 7a to the right called Darl, this had a cool bouldery start into a runout juggy groove, however I got stuck at the top of the groove, I was pretty tired and kept falling off this move, i'm sure I was doing it wrong as it felt nails, by this point though we were both nackered so left the crag in search of a beer garden!
Im really psyched to get back to Two Tier, there are a few more routes there 7a-7c which I fancy a go at soon :)
Simon
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