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Would you bring a rope on a solo Europe road trip? 8-Oct-2005 At 5:29:42 AM jmgh

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On 7/10/2005 nmonteith wrote

>Now you know! They are not for sport climbs but for the funky knot tying
>antics of the Czech Republic!
>No need to bring cams/wires.

i was in what was then Czechoslavakia in 1982, we arrived a few months after Louise Shepherd and Kim Carrigan had left. A lovely old local lady insisted on inviting us in and giving us a cup of tea. She was proud of the tea,lou and kim had given it to her (some herbal hippy stuff)and she obviously treasured it.The only english sentence she managed was " this is Kim Carrrigans tea" which she repeated often and always with a gleam in her eye. The climbing areas ( we went to Adrspache (sp?) and Teplice) are incredible, truly wondrous landscapes. And the knot thing works really well, i've used it a few times since on limestone.It was really weird racking up with different sized knots. One thing that was lost with the wall coming down was the carpet slippers for climbing shoes, yep tartan slippers like Granny wears. A freind of mine still uses hers on plastic.

. http://translate.google.com/translate?hl=en&sl=de&u=http://www.udini.de/gallery/germany/saxony1930bis2005/pages/erst003.htm&prev=/search%3Fq%3DBernd%2BArnold%2Bclimber%26start%3D30%26hl%3Den%26lr%3D%26sa%3DN

i hope that link works. i was looking for Bernd Arnold, a true great of the trad climbing game and this site looked good. the translation is fantastic. Rich, if you can, go to the sandstone towers.