Back at Extreme Edge Panmure last night,

The Ceramic Moped never turned up, hope that back is not the issue, and that it is some burnt pots causing the no show.

I spent my evening with the SeraphinPhly and Mr Cough Syrup.

It was a good evening, FBC talking too much as usual, as Mr Cough Syrup pointed out sarcastically a couple of times, TT was telling us how easy some of these Climbs are, and how you just have to reach up and it's all good .....

Yeah Right

Try it when your arse is closer to your feet!!

Only a couple of failures, a green route that we did not realize went all the way up. So SP redesignated it to Climb Yellow route and then Transfer to green at the top of yellow ... Yes Maam!!

FBC tried .. sat twice, and like all good rats, came back!


There was a really quick Juggy Blue 15 ... love those

and then a "Oh God I'm buggered" Yellow hard start 17........ failed and quit for the night ...

OMG . It has been Sooooo Long

OMG . It has been Sooooo Long


A year a go I suffered an Abscess in the rear end, a piece of very sage advise, if you are going to have an operation down there, Never Never NEVER ... "YouTube" your condition  ... Ever!!

So the final opp was December 8th 2015, and healing has taken quite some time.

Been back climbing for a few months now, mainly top rope ...

On Sunday  I decided to have a lead Breakfast ... that would be a lead PIGS Breakfast!

I was having a really nice mid winter session with JohnnyWebMan, and ended up convincing myself, against my belayer's better judgement, to  have a crack at Samarkand on lead, it is half ways along the LongSide at Auckland Boys Grammar, and is only ... yes only, 8m high.

There was Squeeling, there was sitting, there was a terribly Dry throat, and at the end there was a beached Bulgar white whale belly flopping on the belay ledge, making obscene rasping noisies from it's Blow hole ...

The more reasonable Belayer ... saying "Well that was a good effort"

There were five pieces of gear used, top piece was kicked out ... should never have been used
number 2 was an old super rock, and was not placed well and caused a sit on the the first piece with a lengthy reassessment.

There were 4 Acts during the whole tragedy, with the main antagonist retiring to the wings at the end of the play.