I wasn't feeling the usual love for Windgather Rocks today when I met Fi there, but neither was she. She said, "I've been doing a Jan!" (that's me), meaning that she's been doing too much with not enough rest.

We led two easy routes each, all ones we've done before, with varying degrees of struggle. Then I led one of the exposed arretes and the wind, which had been increasing slightly over an hour or two, suddenly became very strong and blustery. I've never led in such wind before and it was horrible, trying to hang on with one hand and placing protection with the other, and all the time the wind moving me and trying to knock me off balance. Fi didn't like following me up either... we called it a day.