Stanage Lead Climbing..

Ian Hey, Katherine Schirrmacher and I were at Stanage today doing a Lead Climbing weekend for Katherine's company LovetoClimb.

Despite being warm and overcast the friction was particularly good today due to the cooling westerly gale. We spent the day looking at the essential skills of lead climbing with both Nick and Andrew completing their first routes on the "sharp end".

This was a particularly good performance given the slightly unsettling buffeting we received from the wind...