Joshua Tree

After some extensive research (climbing every day for the past 10 days) I have come to the conclusion that this product helps keep you climbing, along with other management options. During my first few days climbing I went out to Stoney Middleton with Sam, Tom and Charlie as it was wet every where else. limestone though is not known for its wearing properties, especially in a landscape dominated by grit stone. Pull after pull on small crimps, pulling your weight onto the same point does split the skin though, this is what i had to deal with. Still it was worth it, I managed to repeat lucians undercut and toms roof again and add zippies side pull to my tick list and dropped the last move on power allowance (photos to follow when tom gets his act together).

After this the weather improved and we headed back to gritstone, climbing at Burbage south, Gardoms, The Roaches, Ramshaw and Gib tor. Along with a bit of sensible skin management I managed to keep climbing. with culminated in a great day at Gibb Tor followed by Gardoms the next day. Rather than try to describe it I'll let the pictures do the talking, thanks to everyone who had the camera and took the photos.






Top Photo: Getting ready to screw the pooch on The Fin Sit Start, this will be done tomorrow.
Middle Right: Rik Gurning Middle Left: Danny and his mighty span on Stall arete
Bottom Right Do the shoe cleaning dance Bottom Left: Me on Stall arete

Note as of today (3rd feb) the fin sit start has been done.