a couple of weeks back was the first time I visited
the dry tooling venue White goods. I travelled down to Simon and Laura’s late
on the Saturday night, reday for an early start on the Sunday morning.
As planned, Simon and I got up early in the
morning and drove down over to White Goods. The crag is near Ruthin in North Wales.
As soon as we got there, we walked five minutes into the crag. At first, I was
nervous because it was high, but the nerves soon left and the excitement took
over.
After loosening up, it was time to warm up! the first route I went on was Jazz
an M8. This route is made up of several blocky overhangs. I found the route
quite pumpy but I still really enjoyed the route and managed to on-sight it.
This got me psyched to try the M8+ White Goods. For me the crux was the large
overhang but I managed to get through it, making it my second on-sight of the
day.
I was super chuffed with how I had climbed and I then tried to repeat
Jazz, unfortunately I popped off at the second last clip. I was feeling pretty
tired and really happy with the climbs I had done, so to finish off Simon and I
messed around trying some moves and figure 4’s on an M11.
We packed up and left
the crag just after 1 o’clock giving us plenty of time to go bouldering.
From Simons we ran 2 miles to the
climbing wall.
We bouldered around trying different problems before stopping
and eating some pizza, Simon had to pay as I had on-sighted the 2 routes!
We
then got straight back to climbing for a short while before running back to
Simons. I had a quick shower then headed for the train back home to Glasgow.
This was one of my favourite days out dry tolling because I really liked the
venue and I was happy with my climbing.
My next trip down to Macclesfield was just there and not to climb but to be at Simon and Laura’s wedding and what a brilliant day that was, congratulations to them both.
Thanks as always to my sponsors for being so generous in supporting me.
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