Climbing in the Peak

Since my last post, I’ve been up to my usual climbing for this time of year, heading to the grit if it’s cool enough, training hard indoors and on to Peak limestone when it’s too warm for grit.

I climbed a classic line in the Burbage valley recently. I did the Nose (i), a font7a at Burbage West, it’s a beautiful overhanging nose of grit with some hard toe hook moves and powerful sloper moves above. Really happy to climb this! My new period of training has also started, with a nice structured program, I’m beginnning to feel the benefits, isolating my weaknesses (lock offs and stamina) and getting myself sharp for the summer competitions.

I’ve also recently been to Raven Tor in the Peak District and made some good progress on Ben’s Roof (i) font7c+.  I did the boulder problem start to Out of My Tree (i) font7b quite easily, so I’m Looking forward to putting on a rope and trying the entire route soon.  Also off to the Berghaus conference this week and looking forward to it.  I’ve also recently booked flights to Magic Wood for a quick 5 day trip. I’ve heard theres going to be quite a lot of UK climbers out there, so looking forward to that too…

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