Classic Rock - a 30 year adventure

Brilliant article on UKC that sums up all we're doing and why. Clachaig Gully sounds as bad as I'd heard and worse... Can't wait to crack on with the big routes again soon. UKC article - Completing the Classics

“Young people, come to the crags but walk around looking at their phones” “They’re looking up the routes on a guidebook app” Instantly, we feel old for having an actual guidebook in our hands. Those gloves should do Covid restrictions still don’t allow for nights away, but going outside of Leicestershire is back on (Grant Shapps even said we could “start to think about” foreign holidays again soon. Thanks Grant) so a month or so of Peak trips would seem a good plan. John and I had both climbed the Peak eastern grit routes before but not together, so we wanted to revisit these routes that were our separate making many years ago and metaphorically tossed a coin between Stanage and Birchen. Ending up at the latter, having made an early start for a car park space, it was freezing, but we had all day so got a brew on at the car, then went for a bird watching stroll, which seems to be the new big thing. Must be our ages, or maybe a lockdown symptom, but I’ve got a few mates now who have just...