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.