Not long after I got home from work this afternoon (and was just starting to think about making use of a fine evening to mow the grass), Daniel rang to ask if I fancied going climbing. So I quickly realised that the grass didn’t really need doing after all and ten minutes later was heading up the road to Polldubh, where we climbed Pandora and Bullet (both Severe).
Now Pandora might be one of the classic Polldubh Severes but, having previously only done the first two pitches as an approach to Phantom Slab, I don’t think I’d ever done the top pitch before and was keen to remedy that omission. So I’m pleased to say that I enjoyed the climb as a whole, shouldn’t have neglected it for so long and also thought Bullet a great little route, being more sustained and maybe even better than the regular start to Three Pines, which it joins at the eponymous trees. Might add that the midges (the first I’ve really been conscious of this year) were out in force and threatening to send us scurrying home by the time we got onto Bullet, so it’s not really Pandora who was doing the biting at all (just a silly title for this post!), but happily we managed to complete the route, find a pleasant breeze on top, pack up below and escape to the van relatively unscathed in the end.
It was only when I was halfway home that I remembered tonight was the night for Heatwave in the ’50th Anniversary Game’, but must say I found myself strangely unbothered by that because I didn’t get many of the Anniversary climbs on the right days in the end and ultimately wanted Pandora more tonight!