dave noden: The Puerile Ticker

So what do you do when North Wales becomes hotter than Greece? For a few years that would mean getting wasted. Then last year it would mean going to the mill. This year with a new guidebook approaching it means frantically trying to tick as much of the graded list before there is a new one I will never tick. As a puerile ticker, I have been busy and its sent me to some good problems. Starting at the bottom:

The cost of living 5, this is a stunning problem now my very favourite easy one in Wales.
Accomozos Wall 6a, nice to find this and climb it the perfect venue to combine a few beers and a few problems.
Middle bluff line 6b, Brilliant Slab in the pass. Shame I failed to complete the Lower Bluff 6c, have to go back best taken with a cold cider.
Harris Arete 6b, done before but forgot how good it was.

Last Orders 7a a Pill Box problem thats good and feels easy!
5 Knuckle Shuffle 7b, brilliant and well worth the long walk.

Message to Rudy 7b+, after trying the FA with Katz and then the second FA with Hock, finally I managed to climb it, careful with that brush though!

So that's all lovely and good, but they are not the stoppers on my list, for example the first one I went to try was
Nicks Sexual Problem, 7b+. Fail to get off the ground. Nothing new there then!
Mr Whippy 7a+. For fucks sakes how many times is it possible to fail! remember almost doing this when I was climbing 7a, still almost doing it 14 years later.
Chris's Link 7b+ on the Pill box, its fair to say if this was my problem I would have over graded it. 2 proper sessions now. Hopefully it will go next time. I will beat the Pill box black hole, it destroys me, but one day as Doylo put it