First Day on Grit

On Sunday Colin, Bev, Paul and me along with Colin's son David and his mates headed for the sheltered gritstone of Lawrencefield Quarry. This was a popular choice for many climbers and most of the popular routes and some less popular ones were seeing ascents by the time that we arrived.

Since this was our first day out on grit we headed for the familiar routes on Gingerbread slab where I led the warm up route (Gingerbread VS 4b) and Paul led Meringue (HVS 5a) both of which were followed by Bev, David and Anthony and soloed by Colin.

Paul Colin and me then top roped Eclair (E1 5b) and Vanilla Slice (E2 5c) and to finish I led Tyrone (HVS 5a).