Bristol titty

Working away is a proper drag sometimes. Drive, meeting, hotel, drive, meeting, hotel, drive... ad nauseum. Plus normally late finishing procludes climbing action, but not this time! Happened to have a meeting in Swindon and a quick trawl of the net brought the nearest bouldering as the Ring road boulders in Brisol, a mere hour away. The dice was thrown and the avoidance of a rush hour drive to Portsmouth was the deciding factor. Weather was choppy, bit of a gamble. upon arrival, the outlook was poor - the proximity of rock seemed unlikely as I parked up in a neat housing estate, but I trusted the topo and crossed the dangerous 5 lanes of the ring-road. It was more precarious than the Brownstones road-crossing lottery and I'm not a fan of dancing with cars!

After a short trot through the field and with the nose running from gayfever, I start to regret this. after dropping down to the river and following it for a couple of minutes the climbing appears up the banking to the right. The climbing is very contrasting, ranging from vertical Brownstones-esque pocketed slabs to overhanging slopey stuff - I warmed up on the vertical wall traversing to and fro feeling the reassuring and almost relaxing warmth and pump come back to the arm muscles. Great. It's good to see that esoterica is not an exclusively Lancastrian domain!
the Ring road boulder was next and has been well worked - chalky marks indicate good local usage although no-one in sight! I played about climbing mini arete, central arete, On a prayer and a couple of others and then traversing and working up a pump until 2 flappers stop play. Good work to Dan Savory for putting the topo together, I had a couple of quality hours which made the 2 hour drive to Portsmouth slightly more bearable.

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