Again a late post, my apologies. Myself Lidiya and Wil had aimed to leave at 8 I believe but both me and Wil blew it and we left only 10-20 minutes late. We drove through an accident that happened on the M1 and decided that we had the time to have breakfast in hathersage. Bullock and Blair’s arrived while we were waiting for the cafe to open. A nice cheap meal later we were on our way to a windy roadside bay. Unluckily for us there was another SPA group at the top. This limited our choice of routes so Lidiya, Bullock and I went to gingerbread slab for some more options. Carefully avoiding the group that were already climbing we set up our 3 top ropes and went to the base to be ready for our groups to arrive. When the group you are managing have all belayed and climbed before you kind of become redundant. Rain came shortly after the group had climbed the first route, which put a damper on things. I'm not the best group leader but I think I tried. After a few hours (I think) we left gingerbread slab for the roadside bay and the abseil. By this point I had kind of given up with group management. It does suck but I seemed to be Irrelevant, so I tried to help other people. Ended up belaying a few people and trying the new abseil rope out. With the rain being pretty bad we went to the pub early. Despite the committee being made to spread out I somehow made it onto a table with Wicks, Howett and Lidiya. The meal was awesome as expected :), and the games that followed were also amazing :). My team came second on the passing the ropes through clothes despite having the 60m rope, thanks to Wil Hooke for a helping hand at the beginning for that :). Not much else of note happened that I can remember I think, so I will leave this until the next post :)
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