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Crew Pegs Diffs

Rolling over in bed, alarm clock shows 08:45, its gonna go. Its gone 08:50 ping ping like clock work, call to arms, or arms calling for climbing. Saturdays are bloody ace, should be called Climbdays. Ok enough of the wayward thinking, response time, the text message is baying for an answer. Cratcliffe is bouncing round my head, alongside Bamford edge, might as well think blackpool or lakes, to totally different areas. looking out of the window from the bed, pearing over Doogles shoulder, weather looks grim. Bamfords out due to the rain which is about to deluge the whole county. Text message goes again. were do you fancy, a long lull before answering. bet Dean thinks ive not heard the call, but iam pondering. Both our thoughts are simialar, back comes Bamford which i was just about to text, so ye goes back and all on plan.

Dean arrives and Doggles doing his usual iam a ball trick by bouncing round the house oblivious to anything in his path.

Bacon wraps, brown sauce, food of the gods, oh and followed by copious amounts of coffee. C U Later and we are off. Doogles going bonkers cos e thought he was stayin home, in the boot, lid down along with all the gear in the back seats, bit like a second family, the family of rucksacks. May be we will need to adopt them and give them both names.

Arrive at High Neb car park, get this one in for Dean, bloody people, the grass is saturated with them. cars everywhere, oh well down to the bottom of the lane by the cattle grid alls good.

First shows up, quark hvs 5b nice route, great warm up. Dean comes up on second, shoulder gives him a bit of jipp on the mantle at the bottom. Bit worried, not looking good as the helmet flys through the air and hits the crag full on. A good time to say nothing, back and up, along the traverse and hes up and out by the belay stance. not alot said, shoulders in pain mode. Dean goes down and i make up the gear, well go for a coffee then, eh. The days done, best rest the arm i say, dull silence. Dean goes off for a boulder and i look around at some possible routes. 

Deans back, lets head off down to Travesties and have a crack at Crew Pegs Diffs E3 6a. Sounds good.

Dean sends this without much of a problem, 6a moves well ard. Not a lot to say really, he cruises this route without much of a problem, couple of pops at the start, but hey its 6a. Massive well done. I try the same route, no biography here, couple of good tips from dean but its not happening, iam off more times than the weather. i am down on the ground, the days done on this one, its not going to happen. Deans pulled it out of the bag on this route, so lets move over onto No More Excuses, i have a real good feeling about this route, looks good feels good. Comes in at E4 6b, were only climbing the 6b side as we are top roping.

Here endough the lesson, famous quote by Sean Connery, quite apt. I get about half way up, nails of a route. Fingers look as if they have been on a cheese grating board. This is a superb route all the way to the bank, just need to get the moves locked in to complete it. get just below the bowling ball pocket as Dean calls it. Were both pretty pooped so we head down, this ones for another day, and it will go, we just need to suss the moves out. Looking forward to our return trip.

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