Different styles of climbing

I went climbing to Wintour's Leap in the Wye Valley yesterday. It's mostly multi pitch climbing on reasonably good limestone, steep and often airy. There's not much below VS so it's not for beginners.

To warm up, a very nice route, zelda. Seen from the top of our last route of the day, with other climbers half way up:



We had lunch. Left to right, Heather, Scott and Jamie:



I couldn't resist a bit of French style climbing up that desperate corner, with 3 shiny new bolts and a bolted belay. First, delicate, balancy moves up a featureless corner:



Then the resting on bolt, scratching of head, marking of foothold with chalk trying to decipher the move:



That didn't prevent me from having to pull on the gear, desperately growing my arm to clip the next one...



Funny how the hand traverse - no foothold whatsoever - felt easy after the corner



That was yeeeaaah!, an E2 6b - strange grade, i should have guessed! To recover, i had this classic easter English delicacy: a creme egg - and a cup of tea:



Heather had brought everybody some chocolate egg, how nice! Thanks...

Moving on to a classic multi pitch English VS, cheetah. Classic because the second pitch has no gear placement in the last 2 thirds, only one old peg between the tree next to Scott and the one on the right. What a buzz!



Here is Scott at the final belay



A brilliant day then! Thanks to Nick for driving and Hazel for the pictures on yeeeaaah!