Britt the Brit :): Climbing in Yorkshire!

So true to my lets be friends with everyone nature....that and needing to climb or I was going to go crazy here. I FOUND A ROCK GYM. Only a 2 mile walk from my flat! Not only did I find a gym but I then found a society at my school called "The Mountaineering Society" After joining that I found their trip to Yorkshire Dales (mind you this was all in a day). Monday to be precise ..and by friday I was on the bus with 19 strangers headed to climb stuff!

I thought the ride was only 2hours i don't know why I didn't look this up before hand but to my surprise it was a solid 6. The next morning we had porridge ( I now know what y'all were saying about tasteless food) everyone broke off into groups weather they wanted to do a long hike or a short one or climb. We hiked out 5 miles (in the rain because thats all it does here haha) to the site we started to climb. I was like a little kid on christmas especially when I was ready to be climbing on grit stone and it ended up all being limestone! :) My hands were very grateful for that! Although I was really sad to not be climbing anything I'd looked up I was also perfectly content there looking over the beautiful landscape in front of me....still needing to remind myself I'm living in England!

That night we all helped to make dinner which was another typical English dish "Bangers and Mash" sausage, onions and mashed potatoes (they even got me veggie sausage!). We shared in a few drinks definitely some great bonding time with my new awesome friends!

The next day I woke up with strep throat but we went out to this great bouldering spot that I now looking back wish I got pictures of! Our bus broke down and we spent the remainder of the day in a pub (because thats the brit's solution to everything). It was more great time to make friends that i'm so thankful for now! Being the only American to go they confessed they all had ideas of how I would be but I think we both concluded we liked each other :) haha

climbing!