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Started by Allyc, April 02, 2011, 11:09:39 PM

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spartan00117

Had a great day today with you guys, cant wait o do it again now.
"If it wasnt life threatening it would be hilarious" Ed Stafford

Allyc

Thanks alot to Alan and Eddie for taking  us up and showing us the routes today.Great day out climbing, was nice to meet yas all, weather was amazing, lets hope it keeps up, spanish flea very good climb,both climbs where, and if it wasnt for ZTO i wouldnt have got to use my rope  ;)

Eamonn

#62
Another great day climbing.
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alanrsv

#63
Afew photos





Edd







Tim about to abseil off







Brian on lead






Tim and Zto




Big E and Ally c




Brian abseiling




Big E abseil




Edd on belay

ZTO

#64
Great day climbing today, though I got some bad sunburn.

I also had a bit of an incident on Spanish Flea... The top rope was too far to the right as I climbed, and got wedged behind a distant flake on an awkward move. I moved up a little to get into a position to free it, which created a lot of tension and it got stuck. I couldn't reach it, I couldn't traverse or downclimb. Because of the amount of slack on the rope caused by it getting caught, I didn't really fancy taking a big fall and so Allyc had to abseil down and free the rope. After some struggling rearranging the rope all the way up, I did manage to finish. Really quite stupid and embarrassing, but it's all part of the fun I suppose...

alanrsv

All part of the learning process zto, Spanish flea is a great route to lead, hope you enjoyed it.