decided to use my easter hols for something and headed up to donegal to polldoo valley again. went to considerable lengths to check some boulders we'd spotted before at a distance but found them to be buried in farmers fields and not as big as first thought. made it into polldoo proper before it got dark. didn't climb due to damp.
up in sunshine in the morning, tried the arete but it was slightly green and needed many hands working it so i passed it over and trudged up the hill to the split pea boulder to get stuck into one of the four projects on it. First hold i bear down on my hand rips off and i get a flapper on my right index finger and that was that for the climbing.
Split pea needs some serious ground work for the drainage but it would be worth it. The one which really caught my eye was a super slopey over hanging lip traverse up to an arete squeeze and mantle. next time. popped over to the slab again, such beautiful rock.
from polldoo i headed homewards passing through fermanagh where i managed to find the legendary gritstone. didn't get to try much of anything but some really impressive looking rock and seemed to be plenty of it. not sure if there's a guide or who's sitting on what but i can only assume a lot of stuff has been done.
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