Well, I’m sure anyone based in the U.K. can guess what happened to us last night!
We rocked up at the quarry to find a slack line up and a bunch of kids top roping the easier routes so we tootled off to Rocky Valley….
The climbing was good, Steve and I made a cracking attempt on Flake Climb (S) and 3 Slab route was climbed a few times. Tim and Brian found a classic gritstone chimney to play in and we were a happy bunch of 8 climbers…… then I checked my phone and found some messages from a worried hubby checking we were ok??? What was he on about the weather was humid but lovely…… then we started seeing flashes of lightening in the distance.
The rest I will let you imagine but I guarantee…. it was worse!
But we all got down safe, had a beer and we all managed at least one route so happy days, all good fun 😀
Vikki on the final moves of Flake Climb
little did we know as we wandered over to Rocky Valley earlier in the evening our return would be in the dark, torrential rain, and lightning. ….oh and with 2 prospective members!! We did tell them that’s it’s not like this every week.
A most illuminating evening