Five of us headed over to the beautiful valley containing the Stoney Banks.  Erica, Chris and Tony led the early charge with Roger and myself following up later.

Quite a fresh wind was blowing down the valley meaning we were all quite keen to keep moving, fortunately this is easy to do at High Stoney with it’s mixture of sport and trad, and particularly at the left hand end short bolted routes at accessible grades.

Some routes completed were Mutton Jeff, What Remains, Pinnacle Flake, King Flush and Candy’s Case.

With arms feeling heavier than they did on the walk in we retired to the Listers in Malham

Roger nearing the top of Candy’s Case

A good days climbing was had at Attermire by the 7 of us. John, Phil and I started on The Gangway and we were then joined by Jo, Shirley and Dave and later John W. After The Gangway I then headed off with Jo to get slightly battered by the wind on Ginger and even more so on Zig Zag. We then decided we could either have sunshine or shelter but not both and the latter won the day so we returned for some shelter and lunch on the middle tier of the main wall.

I then took on layback which John W had told me was a good route (mmmm), After the first well protected crack fatigue took over and that combined with the rockfax  route image been slightly wrong led to some colourful language and an unnecessary traverse but eventually the route was done and Jo and John followed me up. In between all this various ascents were made by everyone else including Striction, Census, Broken Chimney and Freeby.

All in all a reet grand day out.

There were seven of us at Gigg South on Tues. Excellent conditions and we spread out along the crag covering many of the various sectors. First time I have climbed here when the rock felt truly dry and seemed to make a difference. Most enjoyable.

Here is a picture of John Brayshaw on the first climb of the evening ‘Out of Bounds’ – reputedly ‘the easiest climb at Giggleswick’ but with a stiff start!