Earlier today I popped over to Birchen Edge with Heather, for her first outdoor climbing and me to lead some stuff, having only seconded last time I was there (a good 12 months ago).

We hit all the grades from Easy (‘Mast Gully’) through to VDiff (‘Gun-cotton Groove’), in glorious weather. I’d highly recommend “Tar’s Gully” as an easy but just plain nice route; “Gunner’s Gangway” was fun too, and I even got to use my shiny new cams. Excellent.

Photos will be forthcoming after I’ve had the film processed, which will be next week when I’m back from Scotland with MPS. EDIT: Film’s back; nice.