It has only just started warming up and the clocks haven’t even gone forward yet so I’m feeling smug to find a dry day in Avon Gorge. It wasn’t at first but a bit of abseiling and the Qin was hot off the blocks into her first, trad lead. Between them they managed 6 full pitches of trad climbing, didn’t put a got wrong.

I’ve shunted up 100m of rope in total. My poor hands.