PHOTOS: The Last Few Weeks – Climbing!

The last few weeks have been well hectic – so here are a few photos of what I have been up to.

News from Wales is: A certain someone has been trying the Indian Face again. Pete ticked another 8c at LPT (UKC News), I’ve had another look at Gribin Wall climb in Ogwen. Scary. Caff has been onsighting everything as usual. Caff did (and I almost did) Cobalt Dream, which was well cool – the E4 (ha ha ha) offwidth roof crack in Ogwen. Chris just did his funky roof project at Llandulas and Nick Bulllock has been up at Gallt yr Ogof trying my unrepeated route Aftershock, which he thinks might be full value at E6…

Also loads of people have been making the most of the amazing weather and many fine ascents have been made.

So some photos in vague chronological order:

The apple boulder - an outdoor bouldering wall in Stuttgart - here I'm working whilst Sarah trains.

A flying visit to the Lakes was pretty awesome - Here I am on Hueco Crack SS at St Bees - Finger ok - I can climb again! Woo!

Glorious evenings have been had out in the Llanberis Pass, here I am failing on The Big Smile V9/10 - feeling pretty weak coming back from injury - but loving it still - what a view!

Tom Leppart, master of Ogwen, beneath Cobalt Dream. Caff is belaying me, big Tim took the photo - what a roof crack!! Awful! Amazing to see Tom up there, who made the first ascent of loads of hard routes in the valley, most of which have had large upgrades...

Me getting stuck in to Cobalt Dream, a route that induces fits of swearing!

Big Tim shows us what is needed for Cobalt Dream - huge nuts!

Jimmy Big Guns crushed Lord! Go Jim!

Right – that’s it – loads of stuff going on, but not enough time to write about it all! I’ll hopefully get to post some picks of the finished slate route soon.