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Healey slab

After torrential rain overnight the Healey Nab trip wasn't looking on. The sun came out however and after an afternoon of scorching temperatures it dried everything up nicely for the afternoon. Got there about half five, parking at the shorter walk. I was meeting Carl and Taffa but they were running late so I decided to walk in. I took a look at this place last year in the rain and I'd been meaning to get back. It was disappointing to see there was quite a lot of litter, which wasn't good as the place is already esoteric without being littered with rubbish. Anyway, it wasn't really bad, just a bit annoying. I started of with the slab and old route (which climbs quite nicely in spite of it's contrived nature!) and then the boys turned up. we did all of the other easy problems, sooty corner (mmm lovely!), Slaptasm, Andi's traverse (nice traverse, if a bit pointless..), Andi's mantle, chipped wall . Coolboy slap felt really hard for V2 from a true sit-star

Baslow

Went to Baslow on Sunday, although never made it to the eaglestone - we spent most of the day soloing about the crag, up to HS. Showed Mr Kennedy the rudiments of lead belaying as he'd never done it before too. A great day had by all, it was nice to get a bit highball really, with all this bouldering my trad grade should be improving but I've not put a harness on for ages! I'll soon forget how to faff around placing gear!

Local crashing

ok, so I've not crushed any aims yet, and there's nowt much of interest to report, but in the spirit of at least keeping a track of what I've been up to here's what I've been doing recently: a few recent sessions at Brownstones have yielded some good progress, I've linked all of verdi wall which is actually pretty easy really, and so I've climbed all of the Pond Traverse in sections, and just need to work up the stamina to blast it off in one. good progress on Safisfying sloper problem - using the same sequence GCW uses, I can get into a good position to go for the pop to the sloper, but I find it a really long reach - it's been pretty sweaty though each time I've been down (haha excuses). Harder than 6a?? I think it might be slightly morpho inasmuch as if you're under 6 foot it's a long reach. Anyway, I've slapped the sloper (once) but not latched. It should go soon though, and the move is good. This week I also managed a visit to Cadsha