Sunday - The Plum And Merlin

Kat on the steep section of pitch 1 of Merlin

Climbing into the afternoon sun

Belaying for pitch 2 - the next leader is on his way up to the belay

Is she on a tricky move lol. Kat about to traverse over to the end of pitch 2

Difficulties over

There was a lot of rain over night and the weather was due to be showery, so it was a good day to visit Tremadog. Tremadog had people starting early as usual, but somehow not me!

I decided to start with The Plum (E1 5b). Yes, the awkward corner was awkward, and the v-groove was bold. We belayed after the v-groove. An awesome place for a belay, watching all the action on all sorts of climbs around us. The prominent crack was excellent exposed climbing. An awesome climb. We got to the ground again and I realised I had barely ate or drunk anything - got to get used to this sunny weather (will even break out the suncream again).

We moved onto Merlin - another awesome climb. I remembered I soloed pitch 1 about 2 years ago - definitely couldn't do that today - the sun had definitely got to me !

Summer's here :)