Pass of Ballater take 2
After an early start, Ben and I had a
few hours to do a spot of climbing before I had to get back over to
Fort William. We started of on a VS called ..... which turned out to
be a total sandbag. Ben took a belay half way up and I took over
and ended up halfway up a blank slab with snow falling, no gear and
feet slipping, I retreated down to a tree, we rapped off and the
realised that I had wandered onto an E1 slab! A little bit
frustrated that I backed off this I went and led up (E1) which I
abbed off the top and stripped the gear as Ben wanted to give it a
shot too. Still annoyed with my weakness, I wanted to climb Anger
and Lust (E2 5c) which was fantastic, a tricky route with a great
finale at the top. I was very pleased to get to the top without
falling off. The hardest part was abbing down the route and over the
overhang to strip the gear! A great couple of hours of climbing
despite finding out that I am weak!