The Holy City

WTF. R u on about. Need to know. So movin on.

What a roller coaster of a weekend, if your not a climber you will have now idea what or why we do what we do.

The weekend started on a bit of a, yeh yah no goin here there, doin an abseil. Ok wat ever. This is how it went. BLOODY AMAZING, finished work at 12:00 came home fell asleep, shook it off went out with Doogle for a walk. Ok now the real stuff, kit check, cool alls good. Sat morning bit of a sleep in then up. Re kit check, alls good. 13:30 heading off to Marple ie Rope Race. Meet up chat coffee and were are off, so off to what, mega abseil.

Yep, gonna go from the centre of the dome to the bottom of the shopping centre, 100 plus feet. Well iam not, the guys who have raised all the money for charity are, and must say what a brave bunch of chaps and chappesses. Not easy, so hats off to you all.

Hungar pangs started to kick in around 21:00, so time for Battle bar, god it's gettin borrrrrrrrrrring now. Never stop hearing about bloody @battle Oates. Well they just work. Anyway, I think it's time to move on. New horizons, finished my last bar on a high, literally (112) ft up. Went out with a bang, sun down, moon up, amazing. 

That's it, keep chewing and keep buying, good luck battle Oates. http://www.battleoats.com/

Life is an amazing space, you just need to fill it with things you like. We sent over 50 happy people over the edge, from 19:00 till 01:00 in the morning, god I love this work.

Finished up having a maccy D in Coventry at around 02:00 in the morning, ok William Swann it's not good, private punn.

SUNDAY

Now we r talking, the real deal. Climbers heaven, yep got bak at 04:30 in the morning and I've got a climb on at around 10:00 with Dean. 10:00 door goes, nockerty nock. Yep, dean on time. I feel like poop. So man it up, or MTFUP, private joke, john. 

Sick of these private jokes. So what's the deal, we are off to Rivelin Edge (The Holy City) very close, can nearly touch Sheffield from here. One word, wow, bloody wow. Ok 3 words, who's counting anyway. Never bin before, why I don't know, it's an amazing place, just wanna stay for ever. Me un dean just ran riot with imagination of routes to come, like a new world washed up in front of us. It never amazies me how the Peak District throws up new stories to be told and read. This is a classic, it's like we just started climbing for the first time, we are like children in a new park running round trying to grab each and every new toy, toy being the climb.

Guide book time

Climb time

Rivelin Needle, amazing piece of kit. Next time.

So, warmed up. Ready to push our boundries.

Ran a couple of routes prior to the top rope sesh. Left edge at a nice Vs 4c for a starter then dean lead out Face climb, super route.

Now for a bit of push un gurr.

Dean climbing hard on Party Animal at trad E3 5c. We've popped a top rope in with a trail to practice gear placement prior to the first lead. Alls good with a great run, no probs for dean. I ran the route, but didn't bother with the trail as dean had geared the route, so I just cleaned it on the way up. Not an easy route and hats off to John Allen in 1963 who made the first lead, 51 years ago. In fact bloody amazing. 

Never diss this type of climbing. Top roping hard routes is the way forward. Climb hard at your level, then top rope outside that level. See the difference, you will ,move on very quickly. So happy hunting, and remember, it's all about the stories told and the memories had. No one gives a fffffffk wat level u climb at, just enjoy the time spent and spend it well. RIVELIN EDGE, yep it's cool.