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Castle Hill Guide and Weather Conditions 29-Mar-2007 At 3:39:13 PM BadBrad of the Isles

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Well just quickly, i can vouch for all of the following as having somethign special about them. Theres soo many more i wanted to do but with 14K odd problems in the genral area nevre got around to or ran out of power/ skin/ cajones to attempt....

V6
Sapid Sloper - Often underrated sit start problem, the mantle is horrific ;-)
The Unrepeatable - The Mega uber duper classic mantle problem.
Its Love - The crimpiest tensiony problem with a gut busting deadpoint to teh slopey rail at top for those vertically challenged like me.
Ocean - Weird stemming/ bridging tension. Still dont know how i got up it.

V5
The Dominatrix - the best problem i have done ever.
The Slab - the best problem i have done ever...hmm hang on....
The Element - one strong crossover move.
The V5 problem on the edge of the amphitheatre just down from small balls (yeah i know this doesnt help). Grouse dyno to sloper start, mad pullthrough then blank slab to top. Try see what falling off with feet at the 5 metre mark does for the heart rate. Feedback from a group of onlookers after assuring them i was alright "faaark that was rad".

V4
Beautiful edges - Fantastic movement, great rock although get it on a cool day as wee bit polished now.
Lung Dyno - Techy start, power finish, stack the mats on the right to nullify the eroded base where i saw one guy blow his ankle. Its alright he was a seppo....
Right and left tail lights - superb high, friction slabbing.
Exit stage right and Exit stge left - superb high, friction slabbing.
Nasal Slip - the other uber duper mega classic highball slab along with ode to joy, see below.
The unnamed small sit start mantle problem up from the Dominatrix at the back of Quantum, grousse heavage.
Torpedos away - polished power pulling on the prow (submarine boulder).

V3
Lung Arete - Slopey techy arete.
That thing to the left and downhill of Its Love that i can never remember the name of :-)About the only thing with consistent edges on it in the entire field, a nice change of style. Think it has some kind of fish in the name....

V2
Roundabout - castle hill in two moves. Massive heave off slopey jug to a topout noone makes look pretty.

V1
Ode to Joy - high, slippery, the definitive highball boulder problem.

Remember everything is harder than it looks untill you get used to the area. Sooo many unnamed ungraded problems that are superb, try evrythign as its a vrey deceptive place. Some of the superb problems dont look anything special untill you get on them and they start working you out :-)

Cheers, Brad.