Am fasgdh and Moy

Bit slow on the update but there were more important things to do, like climb! Woke up the morning after ruthven and rather than letting skin regrow decided to tape over the top of the sore bits and head to the west coast to Gruinard Bay. With a group of 6 of us it made for a good days climbing, headed to Am fasgdh which is hard to say the least and made even harder by the fact fingers and toes were numb by the time you reached the first bolt due to the cold.

I set about work on the encouaragingly named "warm up route (7b)" which didnt do much for the self esteam. After the third attempt i could see that it would go in two sections yet i was too cold to get any closer, gives me something to go back to though as i was annoyed it didnt go. Am fasgdh lived up to its hard reputation and only 2 routes were repeated in the whole day, with andy sending curving crack (7b+) and Mike repeating Bogtalla (7c). The rest of the time was spent falling off things repeatedly untill we were too tired to fall anymore.

Nick working hard on Bogtalla (7c)

Warm up route(7b)

So after 4 days in a row a rest was needed due to lack of skin and 1 split tip, wrong, the weather was too good come morning so back in the car to get Mike and off to the newly bolted Moy Rock which it is clear to see Andy has put alot of time and effort into developing. Neither of us felt up to much but mike set off up the dark side with ease, i followed and gave up half way, no motivation at all! That set the tone for the rest of the day, Mike had a quick session on the seer looking for the third ascent but was unlucky due to the cold and some popping pebbles. So with that we gave up and headed home. An impressive intimidating crag which needs some stamina!! something i seem to lack...

Now had two days rest and there is a reasonably setteled forcast of -2' for most of the week so hoping to get a few days out climbing. Its been a week of falling off things so hopefully this week that will change, although i ran over my foot with the camper van today(long story) so have a fat right foot but should still fit in my shoe! Fingers crossed!