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2014: a summary

2014 has definitely been mixed and can be summed up as follows: crap start, ok middle, good ending. The first couple of months weren't too bad, although getting out was difficult, but I managed to meet Nick and Paul at the Roaches, went to Wrights Rocks in the Churnet and then Font in March. March, April and May were spent mostly injured from spraining my wrist on the visit to Font, so no climbing. Life stuff involved organising the restoration of furniture from my Grandfather-in-law's house after he died, with some nice results. He'd be pleased. Easter saw a visit to Torridon with the family, one of my favourite places on earth. managed some limited climbing as I was still recovering from the wrist injury. June consisted mostly of lunchtime stamina sessions at Brownstones, my birthday, Great North Swim (2 miles in 1 hour 16 mins), general swimming in the docks, July saw more swimming, this time in Salford Docks (1 mile in 33 mins 42), visits to Serbia, the Lancashi

Some more videos

Some more videos I've recently put together. First, some Mushrooms in Font when it was wet... Fontainebleau Mushrooms from Rick Ginns on Vimeo . One off the project list: Pigswill Sitter 7A Pigswill Sitter 7A from Rick Ginns on Vimeo . A couple of problems from a brief visit to Font for work: Fontainebleau November 2014 from Rick Ginns on Vimeo . And Lastly, another one off the list: Snakey B Original 7A Snakey B original 7A - Wilton 1 quarry from Rick Ginns on Vimeo .