We are back on the coast enjoying a very rare week of beautiful weather. Clear skies and low temperatures everyday making for excellent climbing conditions. And as the local farmers ‘make hay while the sun shines’ in the most literal sense, we have been trying to making the most of this unpredictable window before the rain returns.
We don't seem to be the only ones enjoying the break before the cold sets in either. There is a constant stir around the crags, with deer grazing the forest floors amid the first falling leaves of autumn, woodpeckers hopping from tree to tree, filling the air with their erratic tapping, down to the caterpillars creeping around doing whatever they do to get ready for winter.
The climbing takes its toll though, most immediately on the hands: Our skin is suffering!
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