Building on the the successes of Sunday I was keen to get out again so I packed my rack last night but wasn't sure if I could make it from Coventry to Pontesbury with time to get to the crag and get up something. I checked on the net and had just under 76 miles to cover, leaving work at 5:30pm with sunset at 8:03pm. I was guessing I had an hour to play with so I gave it the beans and got to the crag by 7pm. I told Mick from the club that I wanted to have a go at leading and he recommended Oak Tree Wall Direct (VDiff). Shortly after a new buy turned up (sorry if you read this, I'm crap with names!) and he offered to belay me. The route was really nice, a bit more tricky than I'd expected for a VDiff but nothing hard at all. It was nice to be placing gear and getting a belay set up at the top, my second came up and we made it down the ropey decent route before it started to get dark so we called it a night and went to the pub. I didn't get any photos, wish I'd taken my phone up as it was a nice view at dusk :( so I've pinched one off the free guide from http://www.westmidlandsrock.co.uk.
Oak Tree Wall Direct (VDiff)
I can't wait to get out again! I need to get something planned for the weekend, although I need to get some long runs in too, I really want to build up to running the Welsh 3000ers. My mate Chris Ellis had a top rope set up with another couple of guys from the club on the Pontesbury Needle which looked like fun, I'll have to get back and have a go on that!
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