As the Crow Flies (The DI Nick Dixon Crime Series Book 1) by Damien Boyd

Author:Damien Boyd [Boyd, Damien]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thomas & Mercer
Published: 2015-01-20T00:00:00+00:00

Dixon decided that the fastest way to the top of High Rock was to climb. He left his rucksack in the car and put his camera in his pocket. He then walked over to the short slab to the left of the lower car park on the south side of the gorge and looked up. He remembered the slab was very easy. In fact, Jake and he had often used it as a descent route but then that hadn’t been in the rain and wearing an old pair of trainers. Nevertheless, he decided to go for it, for old times’ sake.

He made short work of the slab itself and then scrambled over the terraces and through the undergrowth to the foot of a route he knew well. Knights Climb was a route that he had done many times, both in ascent and descent. It was graded Difficult, which Dixon reminded himself was the easiest grade of climb, being one step up from a scramble.

Dixon looked up at Knights Climb and could see water pouring down the route. It followed the line of a chimney moving diagonally right up Acid Rock. That would at least mean that he would be able to stay in balance, although he knew that he was going get soaked to the skin and covered in mud.

The climb was surprisingly dry, but there was a good deal of loose rock in the chimney and more vegetation than he remembered. Knights Climb was not as popular a route as it had once been. He climbed the first section with ease before stepping out onto a steep grass ledge. The chimney continued above him and he could see that the top of the route was now in sunshine. He was starting to enjoy it when he arrived at the top of the chimney to find that a rock fall had removed the last twenty feet or so of the route. This was not part of the plan. The line in front of him was broken and loose and it was obvious from the sediment that it had not been exposed to the elements for very long.

He started to panic. He looked back down the route. Reversing Knights Climb was once something he would have taken in his stride but not now. The only option was to keep going. There was only loose rock and mud in front of him. To his left was the blank wall of Acid Rock. He looked to his right. A heavily vegetated gully offered him an exit and so he took this option. It was his only option. He launched himself into the bushes and arrived at the top a few minutes later. His hands and face were covered in scratches but, all in all, he had enjoyed it.

He followed the top of the cliff to the trees at the top of High Rock. He found the tree that Jake would have used as a belay to abseil over As the Crow Flies. He

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