Good evening blog readers! Today has been a good day weatherwise with glorious sunshine similar to yesterday! The crag to be scaled was a new sport crag near Gairloch called Goat Crag. It was my first trip here and was excited to see it as I'd heard it was immense! The crag did not disappoint. It's around an arm shagging 25m high on immaculate brown Gniess, streaked with white calcite.
The crag saw a lot of action today with no less than 10 climbers soaking up the sun beneath the imposing rock. Andy had taken Nic and myself out early, but we were soon joined by 2 strong Edinburgh based climbers, Dave Redpath and Ian ? who moved between Goat Crag and Am Fasgdh throughout the day. Paul Tat, Terry and Stork arrived, and a little later we were joined by Lawrence and his wife Liz.
The crag saw a lot of action today with no less than 10 climbers soaking up the sun beneath the imposing rock. Andy had taken Nic and myself out early, but we were soon joined by 2 strong Edinburgh based climbers, Dave Redpath and Ian ? who moved between Goat Crag and Am Fasgdh throughout the day. Paul Tat, Terry and Stork arrived, and a little later we were joined by Lawrence and his wife Liz.
3 climbers on the 4 routes at goat crag.
The action kicked off with a warm up on the 6a+ corner, then Nic attempted a repeat ascent of a pumpy 7a+/7b which he manged with putting the clips in, good effort!
Nic climbing at Goat Crag today.
I then tried the awesome right hand arete, encouraged by Paul Tat saying it wasn't that bad. It turned out to be desperate and required much dogging even to get to the 5th bolt. Suitably pumped, I pointed to the ground and was dirted.
Stork on the amazing arete.
After this poor attempt, I decided to rest. My skin, now a deep shade of purple, was putting up a fuss opening my tunnock's teacakes and I began to think I'd over done the climbing recently. I resorted to camera man and snapped this scenic view up the valley:
A peaceful backdrop to the hard cranking on the rock.
And what's a photo shoot without a boulder sesh? Here's Andy modeling a new pair of lace-ups!
Andy tackling a testpeice high ball...
After the rest I tried, and failed on, 2 more lines, the left hand line, which is pretty steady to a desperate move over a buldge and then the one Nic did earlier. Anyone else feel these routes should have names?? Anyway here's some more pic's for your viewing...
Stork cruising The One Nic Did Earlier (7a+ ish)
Paul Tat going for the FA of The Left Hand Line (7b+??)
He got it eventually.
Ian enjoying the exposure on The One Nic Did Earlier
Rest day tomorrow woo!!
1 comment:
Great Blog Mike!
Had a similar weekend, in reverse. Gruinard (Gruinard Crag) on Saturday and Brin on the Sunday. First time at Brin and very impressed. Left with no ticks and bleeding fingers ... but happy.
Keep up the good work
OZ
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