Present: Dan O'Brien, Scott Saddler, Geoff Hibbert, Trish Cranston, Mike Farrel, James Hoyle, Kasia Hoyle, Heather Brooke, Andrew Ketley, Rachel Ketley, Geraldine de Silva, Christine Stark, Rachel Flynn and Katie.

The morning sunlight illuminated the crag nicely, but sadly revealed lots of black wet streaks, as Scott and I parked up in Feizor. A good drying "breeze" coupled with blinding optimism convinced us to head straight to the crag rather than the café and we were rewarded with finding a dry route amongst the drainage lines, the fun Mort's Crack (HVS). Once at the top, whilst coiling the ropes in a zephyr, we got to witness the main group of KMCers head DIRECTLY to the crag, the shortest line is not always the best but thankfully the farmer didn't notice which was a very good job because the next group approached the escarpment via the same route. The Ketley's then failed their KMC initiation test by managing to correctly navigate their way to the cliff using the agreed access route.

What happened next was then a real shocker. The crag dried nicely and everyone climbed lots and lots of routes. Mind you it wasn't really the kind of day for sitting around leisurely eating lunch whilst admiring the snowy views across the Forest of Bowland. Keeping moving was a great way of staying warm whilst working off the frustrations of all that time spent at boring indoor walls. Plus as the day progressed the wind dropped and the temperature rose, but the climbing frenzy continued unabated with numerous routes being ascended including Payback (HS), Rebate(VDiff), Stone Soup (E1), Nirvana (VS), Addiction (VS), Ring Groove (HVS) and the crag classic Sunspot(E1). Virtually everyone was on the sharp end of the rope at some stage or another, in fact the very sharp end for Andrew who did a fine bit of "bleed" climbing on Equity (S), leaving a nice trail of red holds that would not have looked out of place on a climbing wall.

James then took over the mantle of entertainer in chief whilst stretching Geoff's rope by repeatedly falling of The Pusher. A trick some little number at VS, not that he expressed that sentiment that politely as he vowed to return for a rematch later in the year. The last rays of the sun saw us all back in Feizor sat outside the café doing some well deserved extensive research into the quality and quantity of the homemade cakes. It was thumbs up all round.

Cheers to everyone who came along and helped to make it a very enjoyable day.