sun, shine, rock and rain ...

After 7 climbing days and 3 rest days we are slowly getting into the swing of things.  I'm back on-sighting 6a (3 ticks), have red-pointed a 6a+ (more nerves than anything else here, I decided to top rope it before leading it.... come on head you can do it) and starting to work a few harder routes more to remember what hard moves are like, a lovely crux-y 6c that is definitely within reach at some point.  Hopefully I'll get the opportunity to go back to it.

Andrew red-pointed his first 6c in style. After he flashed it on a top rope, he was not allowed away from the crag without getting on the sharp end of the rope.  He then top roped a sharp boulder-y 7a, made the crux look like a 6a+ and fell on the easy finish.... with a wee bit of stamina he'll be cruising the 7a and and looking for harder stuff...

We both are lacking in confidence, but that is slowly coming back, I'm lacking strength and Andrew's lacking stamina, but both will come...

We were very thankful of our real-estate move (into our giant tent) yesterday when torrential rain hit.  The thoughts of crawling into our little tadpole came with a shiver, however the rain did make for an eventful fun run down from the crag, about 2 and a half mile single track rocky, root-y mudslide off the hill, woooo heeeee, some of the more sensible people chose to walk, but not I, though I didn't come off unscathed, my bag rubbed my back raw....

Still stuck on the photo front... anyone know of a good FREE raw converter that can be used on the old powerbook G4 (not an intel based machine - so most of the latest PS edition won't run on it)??? But here's a couple I took on jpg... hopefully more to follow soon!!