Was climbing at the Cromlech a day or 2 before the easter weekend and finished Cemetary Gates (and even bumped into Adrian Berry at the top) so sat around for a while then decided to give Foil a go.
We climbed directly to the Foil belay via the start of Memory Lane which is easy enough (and nicer than Spiral Stairs) and got safe at the belay....a nice big blue sling around a massive flake.
My mate led off but botched the crux and lowered off for me to finish it which i did (nice when half the gear is in!)
HOWEVER - as he was giving me the gear he reached around to his cordalette and found some random rock shoe attached to it. So he had managed to:
- chat to people at the start of Spiral Stairs & Memory Lane
- belay me up the first pitch
- try the crux pitch of Foil
- lower off
- pass em half the gear
then find a random shoe attached by its velcro to his cordalette. A green Evolv btw and kind of small. We thought it might belong to these guys who did Resurrection then ML then went home: