Saturday morning club has its disadvantages. From anecdotal evidence at least, the weather is often better in the morning - the forecast weather for Saturday was good, but started off wet with low cloud. It had rained all night and there was almost no prospect of dry rock - at least, not until later, or so I thought. Ed decided to go surfing and James sounded exhausted. I dropped the monster off to do her morning of work and headed round to Chorlton to pick Follicle up. We went to Manchester Climbing Centre. Its in an old church in Ancoats and is quite handy for town. I was a bit fearful of the car, but the car park is guarded and has cameras and stuff so its probably ok....
I'll not launch into a review of the climbing wall, as its a climbing wall. Its not bad. Certainly it has more to offer than Rope Race. A bit wierd that the bouldering is separated out into three roomlets, two of which are moulded resin surfaces and then there's a small board. Which is too small really. They've done a good job with the available space, and it is a good wall, but upstairs is limited by the ceiling height - it feels long enough climbing on the moulded resin cave, as its really steep and therefore long, but the board isnt steep enough and so you've no soon as pulled on and its over. Some good well set problems mind - I imagine the hand of the barrans at work as they certainly felt like comp problems. Another major plus is a good cafe - good coffee and homemade cake.
The afternoon is spent at a barbecue birthday party back in Sheff. We get home at 10 drunk. Sunday is a better weather day and we pack our wellies and head down Cheedale. We keep trying to walk through cheedale and keep being turned back by the river or rained off but not on Sunday, we made it all the way through. Chee tor looks good, and is dry, Cornice looks brilliant but is absolutely soaked, max's wall is pretty wet but Two Tier looks ok. Saw Ed over there and half waded the stream to say hello but kept getting nearly washed away and bottled it.
Today I had hopes of getting back on the Sissy. I think I could redpoint it but cant find anyone to hold me ropes. So, in the absence of a belayer I hope to have a board session, still awaiting confirmation of that even. Wednesday ed is on about LPT but I need to be back at tea time so looking for partners then too.
3 comments:
MCC is good for routes, better than the bouldering I think. The main wall can get you pumped to the point of nausea - 20m is higher than Rubicon even!!
Awesome Walls @ Stockport looks to have pretty good bouldering, haven't done much and it's not super-steep, but it's a good varied open room.
awesome walls has problems up to 1a. everything is on jugs and none of it is steep.
Yeah right. Apart from the large box roof on the right hand side and several gently overhanging walls.
Snob!!
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