– now with added daylight.
Our first visit to the crag since last year's tree-felling, and it's amazing the difference it makes. The extra light has allowed lots of wild flowers to appear, and even the expected permanent mud-bath along the path at the bottom was missing.
I'd been toying with the idea of doing some more of the High Level Traverse, but on arrival we found that we'd managed to coincide with the Cleveland club again, there were so many people it was like Stanage on a Bank Holiday Monday. So we wandered down the crag and I picked a route almost at random – it was free, it was clean, it looked protectable, and I hadn't done it before – Headache Crack (VS 4c).
Of course it was harder than it looked – they always are at this crag – but I eventually struggled to the top, a little over an hour and a quarter after starting. Carmen then let the side down by scampering up and making it look easy. There was just time for Carmen's annual lead of Jordu, I topped out at 10 o'clock (without a head torch, an indication of how much lighter the place is).
There was a good YAC turnout (10 of us) though I'm not sure what everyone else did as I was in situ half way up the cliff for most of the evening. But routes done included Twilight, Moanin', Jordu, Odds On Variant, Wings, Walkin' and probably more.