A pleasing drive around Dartmoor

After a lazy start to the day we started driving towards the Dewerstone to teach Chris how to lead trad properly. However, took a detour to Haytor to see if we could find Luke's 'South Devon and Dartmoor ' guidebook, which had, unfortunately, disappeared. We decided it was a bit windy and there were too many people around so we continued on our way to the Dewerstone. After a cautious walk-in, we found that this, too, was wet, and, after some deliberation, decided to try Sheeps Tor. Arriving there, we found that we could hardly see the tor as a result of the thick cloud which had settled over it. Nonetheless, we walked up, found that the rock was wet, but possibly climeable. Luke started soloing Sheltered Crack (D), but backed off it , feeling it was somewhat precarious. I soloed up Play Crack (D), but we then decided that it wasn't worth trying to climb there and left. Shame, really, as I had my eye on Wind Wall (HVS 5a*) and Mushroom Wall (VS 5a*). Oh well, maybe next time... Instead we drove to the Barn, where we tried out all their new routes for an hour and got quite worn out on these. It was good fun, and probably good for strength (not my strong point in any case), but still, indoors comes far beneath outdoors in my estimations...