Saturday, 18 July 2015

Craig Pant Ifan

Borchgrevinck start, Poor Man's Peuterey finish then Hogmanay Hangover. Felt like classics.
Passed a vacant peregrine's nest (pezza!) on Hogmanay Hangover. Sticks arranged on a ledge a metre across, lined with sheeps' wool and some bailer twine for fancy.

Last pic shows the abseil, zoom to find pezza's nest and the vicious brambles we got barbed to bits in. Doesn't show the ropes not retrieving or me wading around on the top of the crag for an hour in 5' bracken, holly, badger setts and more brambles trying to locate the abseil anchor; half expecting some chap in a pith helmet to exclaim, ' Livingstone, I presume.'

Ended up with a dehydration headache ironically reminiscent of the first ascentionists, probably.