Friday climbing
Oct. 10th, 2014 04:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylDashed off early from work to get to the quay spot on time to meet R — who was, inevitably, slightly late! — for a few hours of solid climbing. We started out with some easy top-rope, doing some of the new routes I've been meaning to try for a couple of weeks.
We then moved on to some of the more gentle lead stuff, including a 5 with some very awkward clipping — one section felt so exposed that I wimped out and holds from one of the other routes to get up to the next quickdraw before going back down and climbing the rest of the route — which made it feel like a struggle. And I wasn't the only one to feel that way; R seconded it and was of much the same opinion.
We then moved on to some of the more gentle lead stuff, including a 5 with some very awkward clipping — one section felt so exposed that I wimped out and holds from one of the other routes to get up to the next quickdraw before going back down and climbing the rest of the route — which made it feel like a struggle. And I wasn't the only one to feel that way; R seconded it and was of much the same opinion.
