Wednesday saw me, Donal, Dave s, Andy, Clare and Crofty heading out to Brimham. Dave and Andy promptly headed off to boulder, the rest of us headed to Cubic Block where Donal and me both fancied Moss Side (VS).
Arriving at CB, we were greated by a rancid stench. "I smell dead things…"
Sure enough, a quick look around revealed some brain dead moron with an air gun had been murdering jackdaws and left their decomposing corpses littering the ground. The same person appeared to have had a bit of a bowel problem and not seen fit to cover the result. Crofty did the noble deed of removing the cadavers with a long stick.
Stink alleviated, Donal set off up Moss Side. However he was unable to get the tricky top move and after a long and epic siege Retired Pumped. I pulled the rope through and headed up in his place but for some reason chose to obsess over a piece of high gear I couldnt reach and wasted further time and cusswords trying to clip it before sanity returned and I returned to getting on with the route.
Moss Side duly ticked, Crofty and Clare having done about four routes to our one, we headed over to Acme Wall, where C&C had just finished Acme End (VS). Peerless beckoned, a really nice HS with a fun bottom move so Clare and Donal both led this, then we slung a toprope (gasps of outrage from the Pure in Heart) on Acme Wall. The challenge on this turned out to be not finishing but getting off the bloody ground at all. Only Crofty made it to the pocket, the rest of us conceded defeat at various lower points and decided the next route was New Inn (VT)*
*VT=Very Thirsty