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UK trad climbing cuteness!

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This past week I got to explore some of the United Kingdom. During this time I spent 2 days in London, with Francesca, checking out some of the classic sites such as big ben, the tower bridge, and the Buckingham palace. Cute meals and cups of tea to follow. Next, we stayed in Bristol for the rest of the week with our friends Eddie and Elena, and the dog, Haru. Bristol is a beautiful city with fantastic, quaint houses, pubs and a tower with a spiral staircase you can go all the way up in. We spent one day of the weekend drytooling at this chossy city crag which is ice like climbing ice with ice axes and crampons on rock, and a multipitch in the avon gorge, which is just under the giant suspension bridge in town. Dry tooling The highlight of the trip though was our day in Pembroke, South Wales. Here we had a day trad climbing on the sea cliffs, high above the crashing blue-green surf! I ended up run out on an E3, traverse and taking a 30 ft fall onto the gold dmm offset, coreshotting one