Perfect Day at cummingston

Went to cummingston with kirsty for what turned out to be a perfect day, blue skys, dry rock and plenty climbing. Went to orange wall as other end was busy, guide book says"top roping is more common due to poor protection and snappy rock" and " a challenge to finger strength", it was right. protection was dubious as you can see in the picture below. It made for interesting climbing though and the routes had some good moves. Definetly reccomend King swing was alot of fun with really bouldery start. Will be back to do hickory dickory dock in the next few months . Got 6 routes done due to kirstys patience of standing at the bottom holding ropes for me! Thank you! Stewart I know your bouldering well just now and if your a little bit brave i rekon you could easily get Flakey wall, good for a first E1 since its 5a. Tope rope it a couple of times so you feel safe and you would get it no bother, i rekon you would onsight it easily though. No matter where you fall from on the route you wouldnt hit the floor. Worth remembering for next week!! Bring the big pair.

Paul F Log

South West Arete E1 5b (Jetty crag)
Right Charlie E2 5c (Jetty crag)
Red Faced E1 5b (Loch Tollaidh)
Buena Vista E2 5b (Loch Tollaidh)
Blewit E2 5c (Tynrich Slabs)
Water Lily E2 5c (Loch Tollaidh)
Strip-Teaser E4 5c (Loch Tollaidh) First E4!!!

Jamie M Log

Dynamite E2 5c (Glenmarksie)

Push off E1 5c (Pinnicle) Fell off top section, quite hard.

King Swing E2 5c (Cummingston). Well reccomended

Skelp E2 5c (Cummingston)

Route Two E2 5c (Cummingston) pointless gear

Flakey wall E1 5a (Cummingston)

Orange Peel E1 5b (Cummingston) Looks easier than it is

The Prophet E2 5c (cummingston) crux is hard

Chanterelle E3 5a (Tynrich slabs) Huge fall potential

Eave E1 5b (Duntelchaig)

Anne Boleyns Crack E1 5c (Duntelchaig)

Ninety-Five E1 5b (Cambusbarron, Fourth Quarry)

Insomnia E3 5c (Duuntelchaig)

No Crack E1 5b (Pinnacle) The was a bat in the back of one of the cracks!

Running on empty E2 5c (Jetty crag)

Schist is a newt E3 6a (Tynrich Slabs)

Slippery Jack E5 6a (Tynrich Slabs) 9m fall on forst attempt.

Stewart M Log.

Middle Muddle Direct Vs 5a (Cummingston) First vs!!

Scorpian Hs (Tynrich slabs)

Wind Up VS 5a (Cambusbarron Quarry)

E points League

Following on from Mike last year, thaught we would follow up this year with the same sort of thing. Not treating it as a competition but more of a logbook among friends so you can record all your routes, and hopefully recommend some of them afterwards so others can go have a go. Hopefully it will give you syche and abit of a drive to get out there and chase those e points whether it be your first ever one or your aiming to hit 50 points in the year. Send me the route name and grade plus whatever else you want(like photos/comments) and il keep it updated. Im sure theres a few beers riding on the outcomes along the way! Anyone is free to join in...

Glenmarksie

Paul and i headed out to glenmarksie for the first trad day of the year, blue skies snow topped hils all around, it was perfect apart from some damp patches on the routes but they passable(just). Rob and John also came and joined us and it turned into a great first day back out, lets hope theres alot more days like this to follow! Its the start of the E season, get involved...