Lead Climbing at Stanage and Lawrencefield..

Colin, Helen and myself headed out to Stanage today to practise essential lead climbing skills.

The weather was initially quite fine but somewhat cold. Despite this we climbed a number of routes around the 'Plate Glass Slab' area before moving to the more sheltered venue of Lawrencefield.

This previous quarry is below the surrounding moorland, resulting in some sheltered routes that often stay dry in the rain. Here we climbed a variety of routes on the 'Gingerbread Slab' as well as looking at belays and abseiling. The quarry was fairly busy with many teams climbing the classic routes such as 'Great Peter', 'Great Harry', 'Three Tree Climb', 'Suspense' and 'Gingerbread'.