Mini road trip!

So I just got back from a short trip to Wales and the Peak district I went with two mates of mine Ben and James!

I think the first night was the most eventful. we arrived at the little field that was supposed to be a camp site at about 1.30 on Friday morning after a 6 hour drive. We got out of the car to put the tent up and realised it was so windy that we could lean into the wind it was so strong. it was amazing! we heard the next morning that it was like 80-90 mile an hour winds!!

Anyway we started to put the tent up. by the way this was one huge tent. it had a kitchen to bedrooms and a living room. massive! so we got the ground sheet down all pegged up and everything. we were all thinking " wow this is actually going pretty smoothly". but we were so wrong. we took the tent out of its bag and strait away it ballooned up like a big kite. two of us held it down while on person tried to peg it down. so we had all the poles in it. all we had to do was get a few more pegs in it, suddenly a gigantic gust of wind tore the whole thing out of our hand, over a barbed wire fence, all the way across a another field and got stuck the side of a barn. at this point we thought "bugger we are going to have sleep in Ben's small Renault Megane." to cut an even longer story short we somehow managed to get it off the side of the barn back into the "camp site" and put up on a big slope next to wall. it had holes everywhere. tried to sleep but couldn't so just lay there!

We stayed in Wales for two more nights. we went for the bunk house option instead of the camping one. the climbing was really good. I'm not a great fan of limestone but i actually really enjoyed it. we bouldered in Llannberis pass for the first day and went to Perisella's cave on the second day. I didn't feel I was climbing my best on those two days. I managed to do quite few problems in the low sevens but nothing harder. oh well it's not all about the TICK it's the experience!!

so then shot over to the Peak on the third day. It was a pretty cold day and friction was feeling good. my skin wasn't though! we had a good session at curbar where I spent a lot of the time trying a problem that was put up by Kook it's called Super Size Me 8a+. it is a very low start to another problem. I found it very hard and I think I need a little more core strength but very psyched to get back on it at some point! On the last day we went to Burbage valley. first Burbage west to try West Side Story which is a 7b+ wall climb, highball. had no luck with that either but once again a very nice problem! Then we shot over to Burbage North to try this problem called The Terrace 7c+. it is this really cool over hanging prow with annoying heel hooking business. I actually did have some luck with this one. got it in about 45 mins think it might be a touch soft but still super cool.