Bouldering Galore!

As so despite the searing hot sunshine today Olly and I braved the hideously hot elements to further explore the surrounding areas around our bolting project, this time on the other side of the valley. Having found out that the venue is indeed completely accessible from train it has put this area of the valleys very high on our list of possible areas to develop. Unfortunately this side of the valley does not seem to have as much potential for bolting as the other side, the rock being of a more friable and shattered nature. However, it seems an incredibly good place to develop as a bouldering venue instead! There are three separate crags that we visited today, the first one had numerous easy problems and one relatively strenuous sloper problem, of which Olly nicked the first ascent grrr ;) Overall we sent 9 problems at this crag, but with a bit more effort and cleaning another 20 could easily be put up! The next quarry was not particularly a bouldering venue but instead had seems like quite a few bolted routes could be sent (including a delicious looking slab that lead to a fist jammy overhang :) The quarry's seclusion, modest size and good lines has put this crag quite high on our future bolting project (which will start next week I swear!) The last quarry was more like first, having countless bouldering lines bnut little potential for bolting. It must be said that I enjoyed this venue the most! The lines were of merit , once they were clean! Again between us, another 9 lines were put up in this section, although I'm sure countless more will be added if we return. I am currently in the process of writing up the the documentation of the names and first ascents completed today, I'll updated the blog again as soon as I've thought of some names! (oh and please anybody who reads this blog apart from Olly get Coldplay's new album as it rocks my socks big time!) Ciao J xxx