After visiting Lundy for the first time last year I have been looking forward to heading back to the island this year. Since getting back from the alps the excitement had really been building as I got back to full climbing fitness and started reading the guidebook and creating a very long and ambitious ticklist. As my last few days at work dragged on I found myself spending more and more time looking at the forecast charts and getting over excited as it looked like a stable period of high pressure was building, and this weather didn’t disappoint as we had 4 days of sunshine! We had a very successful trip where over the course of 4 days we climbed 14 routes with 26 pitches, 32 stars and which totalled 714m of vertical climbing. The highlights of the trip for me were: Quatermass – A committing 3 pitch E2 with fantastic sustained climbing Redspeed – One of the best pitches of climbing I have ever done Devils Slide – Onsight solo with a serious amount of exposure at the top Day 0 We drove down to North Devon on the Friday evening. Read the full article…