Tea, cake, and climbing
Nov. 10th, 2016 04:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylHaving managed to get the day off, I met up with R and we went climbing. Despite not having climbed a great deal recently, her technique is still extremely elegant and solid; her footwork is very neat and she's very good at getting her weight just right to minimise the amount of effort needed for a particular move. In contrast, we saw group thrashing their way up a route with nothing but brute force, making the difference particularly obvious.
My highlights included a clean send of a burly, massively undergraded route I tried and, in a moment of overconfidence, come off last week. I also got to the top of one a fairly long, rather reachy 6c with a hard early crux and a subtle, balancey section on the head wall. I didn't manage a clean send, but I'm pretty confident I've got all the moves down — there was nothing, bar the last couple of moves where I couldn't keep my left foot on forcing me into a very carefully balanced pistol up on my right leg — that gave much cause for trouble.
We finished up with a lovely pot of loose-leaf tea — Chef Paul very convincingly up-sold us on it over two regular teas — a very generous slice of cappuccino battenberg cake, and a raspberry cheesecake brownie which was every bit as good as it sounds.
My highlights included a clean send of a burly, massively undergraded route I tried and, in a moment of overconfidence, come off last week. I also got to the top of one a fairly long, rather reachy 6c with a hard early crux and a subtle, balancey section on the head wall. I didn't manage a clean send, but I'm pretty confident I've got all the moves down — there was nothing, bar the last couple of moves where I couldn't keep my left foot on forcing me into a very carefully balanced pistol up on my right leg — that gave much cause for trouble.
We finished up with a lovely pot of loose-leaf tea — Chef Paul very convincingly up-sold us on it over two regular teas — a very generous slice of cappuccino battenberg cake, and a raspberry cheesecake brownie which was every bit as good as it sounds.
