Burbage North
This weekend I was running a 2 day learn to lead course for Marylebone Mountaineering Club. I was working for James Thacker. Saturday saw us at Burbage and once the early low cloud had evaporated we were blessed with some pleasant autumnal sunshine. The team were already comptetant seconds with quite a lot of climbing experience so it was more a question of going over what they already did, instilling best practice, and lots of hands on experience at placing natural pro. The team then used these skills to set their own anchors and top rope a number of routes. We also spent a while developing our slab technique smearing our way up many of the boulders that lie at the foot of the crag.
Unfortunately Sunday dawned to torrential rain however James had an ace up his sleeve! As a full member of the Edale Mountain Rescue team he managed to secure us the use of their training facility in Hope. Their we looked at abseiling with a back up. Prussicking up a rope and rigging for retrievable and non-retrievable abseils. By then the sun had come out so we dashed to Lawrencefield where the team put all the skills from the weekend to practice in a couple of leads before darkness prevailed.
Nancy & Beatriz at Burbage North
