Pink Pages Pick Up

Mates Tez and Ivan are over from France for a couple of weeks so I went camping and climbing with them for a bit recently. Unfortunately the start of their trip coincided with the crazy heat wave but they've come to trad climb on grit, so that's what we did. And with careful crag selection it was actually fine. I set about expanding my pink pages ticks when the opportunities were there. Only got 3 new ones - Fern Hill, East Rib and Pisa Superdiect. Climbing highlight for me though was Sforzando at Dovestones Tor. Red hot walk in but the crag was getting some awesome wind so conditions were actually ok. Ivan had a good onsight go but got a bit confused and powered out contemplating the wild, slightly unlikely feeling cut loose. I gratefully had a go with his gear in and knew what to do, so it went ok. Good route. Then Ive cruised it on his second go. Sent them off to Almscliff where they decimated all the North West Face classics by the sound of things - nice work! Will head over to meet up with them again next week sometime. Keen for some more sprint flashing, Higgar this time maybe. Onsight trad seems to be bad for elbows, wierd since I can boulder alright now - tradding's too long on the rock with static reaching and locking I suppose....