The End Of The Year- Featuring Dooge- Middle Head And Round Crag
With Hyperthermia; Swollen Pancreai; dislocated patella; 30ft falls; ripped hands; progression through six grades; F.As; Cleveland MC activities; Self Arrests; terrible falls through trees ripping belayers off of stances and our first Lakes E1, our year has been a good one. Although I remeber not when I actually did my ‘first’ Lead, i think It was around April time this year. This was as daunting as every challenge overcome this season. From this Severe to attempting E3- and failing, I have had so many great (and not so great) experiences with so many differant people. A night ascent of Helvelyn lewis to walking over the struggle at night With Mini Ian, It’s been a ‘reet Bastard’, but enjoyable.it was capped off by a wet, chossy visit to Middle Head today, rain and seepage- along with falls, it was not so good. In the last month we’ve been looking at local crags and ones further-a-field on the Internet.”That looks do-able”, has become a common sound- reverberating from the Girth of Dooge. (Dave Warburton)
After out splendid ‘ganda’ at Middle Head we trotted off to Round Hill. Seepage is a real problem here and I think a spade to the top of the crag would be useful. Despite this though there’s huge potential- with bouldering comparable in quality to the Wainstones and a few unclimbed lines (paired with a few hard pre-climbed routes) i think We shall spend some time here next year.The bouldering is on small buttresses (that need de-seepaging) and about 6 big angular boulders. There’s 30/40 problems I imagine and a good few days will be spent there, as well as this there’s an E3 arête- that’s mentioned in the guide(only top roped). With a bit of cleaning this should be possible. There’s also a crappy VS arête- on the south side, that ill probably tootle up.
The Unclimbed Arete.So opportunity and exploration found again. I’ll let you know How It goes.