Stone Valley Crag

First time back on rock for a year and it felt like it. First route we did was graded 4b and should have been fairly straight forward, but you forget that on rock nothing is straight forward. So had a very nervous start, later we moved onto harder routes at 4c & 5a and I was more comfortable on them as I expected them to be hard and they were.

Photo Kathy & John on the second pitch of Open Secret.

My routes today (all lead by Mick with Robert & I seconding):

Open Secret 35m HS 4b ***
Touch and Go VS 4c **
The top half of - Bald Eagle 35m HVS 5a *** - approached from start of Touch and Go
Divided Loyalty 30m HS 4b *