This weekend had first trad climbing experience outside of mountaineering routesThe rock was technically easy to climb, but a bit scary. Positive slope means falling to the last anchor will hurt a lotTurns out I didn't know some essential things about building anchors (like the correct way to clip into self-equalizing anchor). Also lack of practice since the spring made me work way slower than I used toBut thanks to the great mountaineer leading our group we learned a lot in a single day, even practised with 6-8 types of anchors..at the very end I chipped away a corn kernel sized piece of fingernail while hammering out some pitons in the dark ^~^#climbing
This week's Friday Night Video takes us part way up Helvellyn,where Aidan Roberts is attempting to make the first ascent of Britain's hardest boulder to date, Spots of Time, 9A.
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The Squamish sport climb is one of the most iconic single-pitch lines in North America
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