Andrew, Lee and I went to the Fast Castle Sea cliffs yesteday to try and have an afternoon’s climbing. However the weather was really against us – very heavy, thundery showers at times made the yellow lichen that covered the rock frictionless. We had a go at a very wet and slimey East Arete, but decided that it wasn’t much fun so we backed-off in the middle of a huge down pour and climbed back up the headland. The sun came out but it rained again by the time we made it back to the car. What a week of wet weather!