Well, it's that time of the year again, Maria's Birthday - Happy Birthday Baby! and, as usual, she was doing her best to get present clues out of me - and I sorta cracked this year... but, I got her a sweet new lens for the camera and thought she may enjoy playing with it on our mission to Barrenjoey with Dave yesterday. So yeah, I caved & she got her present a day early.
Anyhoo, we headed up after a brief morning shower to find nice dry rock and we racked up for a warm up on the mixed '
Professor Wiggimworth's Chunder Bucket' (16) - charming route name ay? I'll just call it 'the professor'. I've top-roped this a few times in the past but this was my first time on point and I was pleased to find it easier than I'd remembered. Dave cleaned & we rapped off to hit my mission for the day - '
Liquid Insanity' (18). A pretty thin start for an odd first clip then up with the remainder of the climb being pretty straight forward - disappointingly I had a slip onto the first bolt, so, like '
Marsupial Smearer' (18) next door, I'll have to come back to get it clean. Interestingly, although it looks harder from the ground, I found LI a fair bit easier. With a belay set, Dave pretty much levitated up where I had struggled (to my disgust!) and we were soon rapping off and I found myself belaying Dave on Carrie Bradshaw.
Meanwhile, we were watching storm clouds burst to the south over the city, happy that we looked in the clear, until we felt a few raindrops from a storm just to the north of us - but, never fear! Dave pulled out his iphone and after studying the weather radar he declared that we were about to be hammered by a storm moving in from the west! After a quick scramble to get ourselves organised, and a look at the blue skies to the west, Dave double checked his radar and we were amused to see that it was a few hours old...
After Dave made short work of CB we decided we should bail so as to have time to prepare 2kg of meatballs for a dinner party for Maria.... mmmmm
Köttbullar!
With Maria's new lens, there's a ton of pics! Most are by her, but I think the first few are mine - but, whatever. Peace, out.
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Our target!
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| I can't get tired of coming up here! |
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| Our new wheels & Dave |
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| Racking up |
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| and from here on in, Maria gets pretty trigger happy! |
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| Dave setting new heights for climbing fashion whilst following on the Professor |
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| 'my feet go where?!' |
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| mmmm pastels |
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| lock & load - next! |
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| 'no no, that way' |
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| aaawwwww..... |
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