Grit Outing with Sunset Soloing, plus Parthian Shot...

Finally i got the chance to get out on the Grit, i am going to New Zealand in just over a weekso i have had to save my money, but we met up with Chris Weedon who took us ou for the daywhich was pretty cool. We met Dan Lane at Hathersage and headed to Burbage South. We warmedup and noticed somebody was abseiling down Parthian Shot (E9 6c).
We walked over to see that it was one of the American visiters, Alex Honnald. We said hello and then went to do some bouldering, we did various problems but nothing too strenuous. As we headedback to Parthian Shot i noticed that i could see him leading the route, i looked down for a splitsecond and then noticed i had missed him fall off the route, i saw him at the end of the fall but not above the gear. We walked over, and then had a look at The Knock (E4 6a), there was a photographeron abseil above Parthian, he asked us toget out of the shot, the American said "yeah, i'll give it one morego and then chill out and let these guys do what they want", which was nice of him, to say its an E9!
We watched him set off on the route, it was very gripping to watch, i wasn't sure if he was going to pull it off as he rocked onto the slab, partly becuase the rop was in the way on the foothold, but he finished it. It was the first E9 that i have witnessed being climbed in real life which made it fairly special.
We headed to Higgar Tor afterwards. I Onsight Soloed Brillo (E1 5c), which was my first E1. It was a bitgreen/damp/polished but an OK route. I also OS soloed a very green VS, The Reamer, that had a reachy move at the top, i had not mats or spotters so i felt like i may be in a spot of danger, but once i had tested my reach i committed and pulled to the top, it has some nice jugs all the way up and is a nice route. I got to the top to be welcomed by an amazing sunset.
I didn't get much hard problems done but i got alot of mileage in, so it was good, there will be some pictures soonthat where taken by Dan and Chris, overall it was a very good day, thanks to Chris Weedon for taking me.