With Christmas feasting and New Years partying all in the distant past it’s time to get back to the one thing that really matters – Climbing!

We’ve started the year with a bit of a gift out in the lead-climbing area – the Purple holds (now grade 19) is the perfect warm up for those aspiring to harder things and an ideal route for everyone else still finding their feet without a rope above them. Late last year we also re-set both the green and blue holds-sets so if you lead and you haven’t ventured out the back in a while, now is the time.

In the top-rope world there are new routes on the ever-popular pair of ropes nearest the bathrooms (Rps 30-31). The general bones of these routes are much the same although there is probably a bit better differentiation between the grades. Rope 30 (the one with the corner on your right) has some great climbing with the typical combination of wall moves with the corner to stem and rest against.

Next week it’s time to lay into the LHS of the bouldering wall so boulderers be prepared to have a slightly diminished choice of probs until Wednesday evening.

Hope everyone had a great break, had excellent adventures and are as fresh and rosy-cheeked as we are.