{"id":79,"date":"2008-08-27T16:04:48","date_gmt":"2008-08-27T16:04:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/?p=164"},"modified":"2022-04-11T21:49:45","modified_gmt":"2022-04-11T20:49:45","slug":"first-lead-black-rocks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/first-lead-black-rocks\/","title":{"rendered":"First lead, Black Rocks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not very often I start a blog post with a photo of my bum, but yesterday was a special day.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_165\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"size-full wp-image-165\" title=\"Haydn leading &quot;Twin Cracks&quot;, VDiff. Photo by Jamie.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080827.jpg\" alt=\"Haydn leading &quot;Twin Cracks&quot;, VDiff. Photo by Jamie.\" width=\"500\" height=\"685\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-165\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Haydn leading &#8220;Twin Cracks&#8221;, VDiff. Photo by Jamie.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jamie, Gareth and I took a trip to Black Rocks, and the day didn&#8217;t start well when I went a bit mental halfway up &#8220;Lone Tree Gully&#8221; (S 4a). However, I then seconded South Gully (VDiff 4a) and really enjoyed it &#8211; bridging galore! I then finally did my first proper* lead, of a VDiff called &#8220;Twin Cracks&#8221;. There was a bit of faffing around but it turned out to be a lot of fun. Hopefully now the spell is broken and lots more will follow.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_167\" style=\"width: 510px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"size-full wp-image-167 \" title=\"Gareth topping out on a rapidly-darkening &quot;Stonnis Crack&quot; (HS 4b)\" src=\"http:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/20080827b.jpg\" alt=\"Gareth topping out on a rapidly-darkening &quot;Stonnis Crack&quot; (HS 4b)\" width=\"500\" height=\"680\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-167\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gareth topping out on a rapidly-darkening &#8220;Stonnis Crack&#8221; (HS 4b)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>By this point it was going dark. Jamie and G did &#8220;Stonnis Crack&#8221; (HS 4b), while I watched from the top as the street lights gradually blinked on in Cromford.<\/p>\n<p><em>* i.e. harder than a Grade 3 scramble.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s not very often I start a blog post with&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[35,180,357],"class_list":["post-79","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-outdoors","tag-black-rocks","tag-lone-tree-gully","tag-twin-cracks"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.haydnwilliams.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}