Upwards...but mainly downwards

I got some climbing in today. It wasn't the best climbing I've ever done, in fact it was one of my worse days - I didn't actually finish any walls. Not even the relatively easy wall we used to kick the day off. I don't know quite why, but lets just chalk it up to an off day.

However, I'm not that put down because I didn't do a single route rated under 5+, and spent most of the day doing leads. After coming off our warm-up wall about 3/4 of the way up, we decided to have a go at 'Nemesis', the wall with a large overhang that we had both failed to top the previous week.
I had first shot at it and climbed well for the first section, and onto the first clip of the overhang. I made it up to the second clip, had the rope in hand, halfway through clipping in my grip slipped off the hold I had and I fell, and fell hard. I tried again, using the existing clips as a top-roper but my hand forearms were absolutely shot.

This sort of set the tone for the rest of the day's climbing.

Me attempting a 5+ lead climb. Small holds and jutting features
ensured I didn't get far

We tried a variety of routes, and ironically my best climb was on a 6 top-roper where I nailed my use of features as balance points when moving on the wall, but slowly my arm strength and ability to use crimpy holds really started to drag.

Bailey turned up a couple of hours into things and had a try on a couple of routes, which was good as it offered me and Charlie a chance to rest and coach her (she hasn't climbed for a few weeks). I'm still hoping she catches the bug and is able to do it more frequently but I'm letting her do it in her own time.

Charlie showing me how it's done. He only got 2
clips higher than me, though...

So all in all, not the best of days climbing, but we all have our off time. At least I got photos though.