Climbing in a Winter wonderland.

I wanted to hit the new year running in terms of climbing. My hope was to get out several times in the first week or so of the year to get my body and mind back up to speed on the climbing front after the Christmas lull. Obviously this hasn't happened, I dunno why I bother coming up with schemes as they seemingly never come to fruition, hey-ho. Anyway a combination of heavy snow, car problems, chasing up late payments and feeling a bit heavy and unmotivated has meant that this early dash hasn't thus far materialised.
On Monday I paid a visit to Rochdale wall, which was OK. I went there because in these freezing temperatures it is difficult to build up a lot of enthusiasm for going on the board (or it is right now), I think once I'm back in the swing of climbing the board will be excellent but it just felt a bit hardcore, so the wall it was. It was very quiet, not that surprising given the weather. I had a reasonable session doing something completely new, there were some (four I think?) link up problems which I had a play on. I'd normally just go for a pure power bouldering session so it was interesting to try something a bit different. Anyway I managed to tick them which I was a bit surprised about, maybe last years sport climbing antics have improved my fitness. I would say this though, if you do go there and try the links I think the grades offered are a bit wide of the mark, but then what would I know?
Yesterday I ventured up to Silverdale. I had a quick look at At The Heart Of It All and it is just crazy hard, but I'm still tempted to play. Then I went back to Anna which I got done in quick order, it felt significantly easier when not as glassy as a glassy thing. I had a brief play on Anaesthesia, the moves are hard but not that bad, but man is there a lot of them. Anyway the final port of call was Not Bad Dave SDS, I've spent far too many sessions on this. I managed to finally flounder my way up it, thank god, I'll never be getting on it again. It feels dirty hard to me.
As for the conditions, Anaesthesia was dry (although some of the feet were a bit soggy), Toms roof area was pretty seepy and damp, a few problems would have been try/dry-able but conditions were not primo, Not Bad Dave SDS was dry apart from one of the starting undercuts which was slightly damp but easily dryable, At The Heart Of It All was dry but most of the other problems there were damp. Also several roads had large sections of sheet ice which made for entertaining driving conditions. It was snowing as I left so it may all be white/wet now.

The board tonight I think, need to feed the SYKE.

Happy New Year

Went out for the first time this year yesterday. A trip up to Silverdale with the G-unit. I was hopeful for a not too shabby performance as ongoing underlying plague infection over the festive period meant weight gain was probably at a minimum (although I have no measure of this fact so could be very wrong).

Anyway it wasn't to be, at Warton after doing Plubline in a few goes I then failed to do the crux move on Ebeneezer Goode and failed to do the Poison extension. Then on to Woodwell where I failed to do Anna, then failed to do anything else at all. Rubbish.

Oh well, things were pretty dry up there, though I guess they may not be now. But it was incredibly glassy, which is hardly surprising as G was predicting -4 as the max temp, so friction was pretty much non-existant. I think once the year and myself have warmed up a bit then some of these should get crushed/satched/rinsed/whatever.

Snowing like a very snowy thing now so I think it's going to be a week of board work to get the body firing again then out and about for a tour of CRUSH/DISAPPOINTMENT*

* delete as appropriate.