catch up

After two days of climbing, myself and Andrew are particularly tired today.  We've made a plan for the next few days, climbing tomorrow, this will be our last day climbing in the Gorge, we plan on taking one of the canoe / kayak trips down the river on Monday before driving into Spain on Tuesday and down to Rodellar to meet up with Dawid (at some ungodly hour).

View from Naivre

We climbed for two days in Naivre, it has to be one of my favourite crags in the Gorge, however, there are only a few easier graded routes.  The first day we did a 6a and an extremely powerful 6b+ which I managed to somehow hang on and flash.  It was a route that I had down years ago, so was happy to manage to hang on.  The number of days climbing at this point is taking its tool as after both routes, we were exhausted.

The next day we went back up and warmed up again on the same 6a and had our eye on a 6c.  Andrew got up with only a few rests, the crux is committing and run out but the route is amazing.  I had three top rope attempts.  I've most of the moves worked out - but hanging on is hard.  It is a route that has been in the back of mind for a long while, trying it on both previous trip to the Tarn and to date no success on it... one day you will be mine.

Unfortunately, being just two its hard to get photos of us on routes, however, Naivre just crys out for you to take photos.. with its stepped appearance, there is always a good angle.  The bottom two images are of Christian working a 7a+.  The top two are unknown climbers (the first on a 6b, the second on a 7b/c). 

On the last rest day we went searching for a good spot to take a photo of the impressive Millau Viaduc.....  I haven't found the ideal spot, but at least these photos give and indication of the size and scale of the bridge.  It is amazing.