Finally Some Gritstone Action

Saturday saw some dry and bright but cold weather, perfect weather for gritstone. I jumped at the chance to get outside climbing which I hadn't done since November last year and hadn't been on gritstone since August.
I met up with Joe at Cratciff and Robin Hood Stride in the Peak district do a bit of bouldering. It's a brilliant little venue with whole range of grades from easy to very hard so there is something for everybody.
After warming up on some of the easy problems on the block at the back (check out old video here). We went over to check out Grizzley arete (Fnt 7a) it was all a bit green and knarly. Just left of it was a problem I hadn't tried before which I quickly did. After looking on web I found the problem was The Kid (fnt 7a), nice problem but a little reachy. Joe had a quick play but could not do the sit start move.
Next we moved on to the "crowded " cave area, it seem's everybody had seen the good weather and gone out bouldering. It was ok though lots of mats , beta and spotting. Joe got really close on one of the problems just running out of power on the slopers. I managed to get to the top of a problem though.

Robin on T Crack

Next moved over to have a play on T-Crack ( Fnt 7b+) which I had done a few times before but it is alway good to play on. Joe has been trying this on and off for a while now and hope the cold temp's would help. After picking up some beta from some others boulder's he quickly was getting higher that normal , just needing to sort out the last couple of moves, but they are the hardest ones. Steph and Robin then turn up to play after Steph and ticked Gorilla Warefare at Curbar.I had a few goes and slap the last hold three times. It was getting late , cold and the skin on my fingers was getting thin so I decided to call it a day.