2007 Climbing Diary

This table is little more than an electronic version of a notebook that I keep each year about the climbs that I do. Note that I have only ever recorded those routes in the extreme grades. It may be elitist but in its own peculiar way it forces me to attempt routes that are close to my limit in order to keep the average grade up.

There are links to any trip reports or photos in the notes column.

Note that bolted routes are included in this list and are given French Gradings indicated by F before the grade.

Date	Route	Grade	Led	Notes
1 April	Water-Cum-Jolly
	Fear of Flying	E2		Not been climbing for ages.
	Palmolive	E1		Short technical section.
	Dead Tree Crack	E1		Tricky groove climbing.
	Sweet FA	E1		Beginning to tire - describes what was left in the tank!
13 April	Trow Gill
	The Great Big Onion	F6a	y	Very easy - especially if you can do off-widths!
	Clapham in Irons	F6a+	y	A couple of tricky sections.
	Alick	F6b+		Good and sustained climbing.
	Off the Wagon	F6a+	y	Very easy apart from a 3m section in the middle.
	Boogie Wonderland	F6a		Started to tire, so began going for mileage.
	Ash Tree Groove	F6b+		Made a right pig’s ear of the top groove.
20 April	Dib Scar
	Old Dog New Tricks	F6a		Greasy and damp. Not too confident today so only seconded.
	Nettle Whine	F6a+		Pumped already due to the cold!
	Slimline	E1		An awkward start but OK after that.
	Natural Born Runners	E2
	Britvic Fifty Five	F6c		Actually felt fairly easy because things had dried out through the afternoon.
27 April	Giggleswick South
	Under Pressure	F6a	y	Easy for the grade but OK as a warm up.
	Bella Calcio	F6b	y	Good climbing - nicely technical with interesting moves.
	Mi Vida Loca	F6c		Perhaps I wasn’t warmed up!
	Nutbush	F6a+	y	Still feeling pumped from the previous route.
	City Limits	E2		Perhaps the hardest moves we did all day.
	Suburban Sprawl	F6b	y	Just one long move (or jump) with a lot of easier climbing.
	Real Gone	F6b		Starting to feel tired now.
13 May	Malham
	Hyperspace	F6b+	y	Bit of a shock for the first route of the day. Got totally pumped!
	The Scene of the Crime	F6c		Still pumped from the previous route.
	Rose Coronary	F7a		Had a good break between the last route and this - managed it better than I have done for a long while.
15 May	Malham
	Bella Lugosi and the Ledge Lizards	F6a+	y	The more usual warm up.
	Sychophants	F7a		Working it - definitely got easier as the evening went on.
19 May	Malham
	Bella Lugosi and the Ledge Lizards	F6a+	y	The usual warm up again.
	Sychophants	F7a		Working it - just found it hard today.
	Puddlejumper	F7a		Just on top rope - could do all the moves so may be better going for this on the redpoint.
20 May	Froggatt
	Brightside	E2		Technical moves out of Swimmer’s Chimney.
26 May	Black Crag, Borrowdale
	Raindrop	E1	y	Straightforward climbing apart from the top groove.
26 May	Reecastle
	Rack - Finger Flake Finish	E2		Still find the HVS part of the Rack as hard as the rest of this route.
	Thumbscrew	E3		Felt weary, which led to sloppy footwork making it harder than it should be.
29 May	Rylstone
	Monument Crack	E1		Very cold and windy - had hands like blocks of ice. Fell off the initial bulge! Spent the rest of the evening on HVSs.
10 June	High Crag Buttermere
	Nebucharnezzar’s Dream	E1		Nice sustained climbing.
	Gethsemene	E1		Very easy for the grade.
	The Philistine	E1		I’d forgotten just how good this was - one of the best routes of its grade anywhere.
17 June	Millstone Edge
	Embankment Route 3	E1	y	Completely different to what I have been climbing so far this year. so I took a fall!
	Regent Street	E2		Just knackered - don’t know what was up with me today but I struggled on everything.
24 June	Malham
	Bella Lugosi and the Ledge Lizards	F6a+	y	The usual warm up again.
	Puddlejumper	F7a	y	Basically, worked it - got most of it in one link, just need to sort the first 3 metres or so.
28 July	Robin Proctor’s Scar
	Wheels on Fire	F6a+	y	The usual warm up here - which just happens to be the best route on the crag. Not been out for ages.
	The Inertia Syndrome	F6a+	y	Not led this one before.
	Storm Force	F6b	y	Not done this one before.
	Second Wind	F6a+	y	A bit of a one move wonder.
	Sportingle Wall	F6a+		Quite loose and not at all pleasant.
26 August	Chee Tor
	Match of the Day	E2		Really pleasant climbing.
	Flycatcher	E1		Much harder than Match of the Day.
1 September	Stanage
	Left Unconquerable	E1		Just as good as its better known twin.
	Namenlos	E1	y	One of the few classic Stanage E1s that I’ve never done before.
	Millsom’s Minion	E1		Found the pockets on the start of Billiard Buttress to be the hardest bit!
15 September	Great Wolfrey
	Shades of Green	E3		Failed to lead. However it is never E3, more like bottom end E2.
29 September	Stanage
	Death and Night and Blood	E1		My two hundredth route on the crag.
	Tales of Yankee Power	E1		A bit of a micro route.
	Flaky Wall	E1		Very hollow.
	Bastille	E1		The hardest of this three.
8 October	Running Hill Pits
	Gomorrah	E1		Easier than the HVS to the left.
14 October	Stoney Middleton
	Mani	E1		Very mirky and damp so just top-roped everything.
	This Wall!	E2		A bit of loose rock on this.
	Om	E1		Again damp in the drizzle.
20 October	Black Crag, Pike O’ Blisco
	Glass Slipper	E2	y	A long time since I’ve done this. Nice and delicate.
	Sleep on my Pillow	E1		Not done this before - delicate despite its steepness.
3 November	Brimham
	Rotifer	E1		Just top-roped it, have soloed it years ago.
25 November	Giggleswick South
	The Second Icefield	F6a+	y	Felt easier than the grade.
	The White Spider	F6a	y	Good climbing but a bit damp.
	The Ice Hose	F6a	y	Really quite nice climbing. Don’t remember Yew trees on the North Face!
	The Flat Iron	F6a+	y	Beginning to get tired.
	The Exit Cracks	F6b		Definitely tired.
	The Hinterstoisser Traverse	F6b		Being a traverse, no point in both leading.