Last night we participated in a
Fig Four dry tooling competition at the
Westway. Nick's friend Ramon had signed us up to take part. Somehow we'd got the impression that this was just a bit of fun and that plenty of the participants were, like us, new to dry-tooling. So our hearts sank yesterday when we read on the
Westway website that the competition would feature "elite climbers" and take place on the "super-steep" outside wall. Gulp.
The less said about my attempt the better, a complete debacle. Nick did much better. Here's a clip of his
first go. Ramon and others climbed superbly. As Nick put it, our effort compared with Ramon's was like watching Rotherham play Barcelona.
