Sunshine and hail at Thorn Crag

This afternoon I decided to wander up to thorn crag to try to complete some unfinished business with mothership reconnection. Last Sunday I felt I had sorted out the correct sequence for the sit start before progress was halted by split tips. Today I thought I was in with a good chance of completing this excellent V7/Fb 7a+ hanging prow. I got warmed up on a number of the nice easy V0-V3 problems I had done last time I was there. Then I did the stand up version of Mothership reconnection at V3/Fb 6a+. This felt OK so it was time to get stuck into the main event. I felt much better on the opening moves today, but my skin was thin and I didn’t feel I had many goes left in me till my tips would split snatching for the slopers up the ramp. After about four or five goes I was getting all the opening moves of the sit down start but couldn’t make the last move into the stand up version. It seemed so close but my skin was thin and sore. One more go and as I snatched for the rough key sloper a hole opened up on one of my right finger pads. Instead of thrashing away at the problem and trashing my skin even further I decided frustratingly to leave the problem for next time.
Instead of bailing straight home I taped up the hole and headed over to the crag boulders to repeat climb the score (V0-/Fb4), Perving Arete (V3/Fb6a), Neils Thorny Arête (SSV3/Fb 6a), Burn’t Heather V4/Fb6b) and For My Next Trick (V6/Fb7a).
I then wandered up to an excellent highball slab called here I am again (V5/Fb 6c). Unfortunately as I was trying to suss out where this line went the clouds rolled in and the heavens released a massive shower of hail stones. I decided to call it a day and headed back to the car. A little disappointed not to get any new problems.