Determind to get an E3+ onsight before the end of the year, I went by myself to the Wainstones. Looking at the guide ‘Peel Out’; ‘west face of The needle and Psycho Syndicate all looked ‘Do-able’. As I thought about them in my mind, they became less steep and with bigger holds, this made it even worse, when i turned up in the rain looking up at this impossible ‘test piece’.

“blooy hell!”,  i thought.

I trotted round the whole crag looking for routes, failed and managed to scare myself onsighting an E1 friction climb. A Sad ending to a great year. 

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