Was struggling for a title for this, the first of hopefully a long run of frequent entries, but Staind's song came up on iTunes and presented itself fitting quite well. I let myself down a bit for the last 3 months of the year not blogging a single time, fortunately I think I made my target of 52 posts during the year - which is what I'll be aiming for again this year. My New Year's resolution is also to keep this page updated, so lets hope it goes well.

The fact I haven't blogged for the last 3 months is defentely not because I have nothing to write about. I moved away to University at the end of October after probably the best summer of my life and met a whole new world of people. Life pretty different, but not in a bad way at all, the whole living away from home thing is defentely the way to go! Mountaineering wise I've been fairly busy as well. I did my first adventure race in October as well as spending weekend on Arran, in the Lakes and Peak District getting lots of climbing in.


Of special significane is the 'South Ridge Direct' on Chir Mor on Arran that I climbed with Martin, a 400m VS with a overhanging 5a crux. Most cool. Novemeber brought some sunny sport climbing in Yorkshire (dirty dirty bolts) before the winter season kicked of with weekends in Glencoe, routes being done in the lakes and long weekend in Kintail. Again one of the more significant moments was leading my first IV, Viking buttress on Helvellyn.


So let see what the new year brings...