We nipped up to Siurana today for a quick climb before work this morning. I was keen to get back on the 8a+ at L'Aparador that I tried last week and Tash wanted to have another go at 'Rauxa'. After putting the draws in 'Rauxa' for Tash, I went up 'De aqui a la luna'. Thankfully it felt much more do-able than last week, and the first half felt positively easy (although the dodgy rock at the bottom was still worrying!!). I also realised that you can get an almost hands off rest before the crux if you lean into the wall enough. Sadly, the crux bulge felt as hard as I remembered, but I managed to work out a slightly easier sequence and almost linked it in one. Unfortunately, as quickly as I was working sequences out I was also losing skin on the teeny crimps so had to sack it off. After belaying Tash on her route I decided to try and link the bottom half, up to the rest, before moving out right to the mid-height belay on the 7c next door, thereby missing out the hard bit on the 8a+. This I managed to do, so all that's left is some refining of the end of crux sequence and then it'll be redpoint time.
This'll be the last blog for a while, as we're off to France on Saturday. Happy days....
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