Weekday Climbing

With a lacking of employment these days - midweek climbing seems to be the desired alternative. A day on the main face in Glendo followed by a day in Dalkey. Glendo turned out to be a rather pleasent afternoon of routes on forest ledge, however a a silly choice of abseil, saw us abbing through a wet a slimy waterfall... hmmm.. we should have known better - 2 abseils are a necessity, it can't be done in one.

Thursday saw myself, Diarmuid and Domhnall heading out to Dalkey for a sunshine filled afternoon of playing on new routes. Domhnall worked and finally got a new line between Jameson Ten and Tom Tit, E2/3 6a, Tasmanian Devil it takes the true line up the middle.



The blackberries are in full flurish, I think it is time to go picking and make us some pies, yummy :)

Round the World

The tickets have been booked.


On the 28 Novemeber, myself and Mar are heading off on a 6 (ish) month climbing trip. The plan so far is SE Asia, Austrialia, New Zealand and the USA.

Why Girls go to the Bathrooms in Twos?

Well I finally found out the answer to this question. In the Burren this weekend, I managed to topple of a small ledge. Hmmm, good idea :( Whilst LOCATING a discrete place to pee, I managed to overbalance and fall head first toward a bunch of boulders a couple of meters below. Ouch. My over riding thought, whilst falling in slow motion, was this is going to hurt.

Once I realised what had happened, I figured I had to get out of where I had fallen, as nobody would find me. So on all fours, I crawled back up to the ledge, and started calling for the guys. Luckily for me Eoin was begining to wonder where I had gotten to. So he heard my calls and came running. Everyone was great, thanks guys :) feeding me hot tea and biscuits, and bandaging me up.

Thankfully it wasn't as bad as it could have been. However, I did bump my head, chip a tooth, bruise my wrist and shoulder, jar my back and pull a muscle in my leg. I looked a state, all black and blue, and was a giggling mess.... hmm I definitely bumped my head. So girls, the moral of this story is always go to the bathrooms in twos :)