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Mt Buffalo 2016 Aid Festival w/end of 26-27 Nov. 2-Dec-2016 At 12:59:25 PM MonkeyBoy

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>I'm curious to know. Was it simply a matter of time, or was
>there some other reason you bailed?

The main reason for me initiating the bail was that had a bit of a freak out. The factors that contributed to that were the ground fall i took the day before, time and also I think that I was pretty exhausted. I was already knackered before I even started due to a crazy work week ( involving a couple of overnight weird shifts ) we were then late up to buffalo and didn't get much sleep in the hut then rushed to sort out gear in the AM and left for walk in a little later than we wanted meaning we only got to big grassy after dark and didn't hit the hay until midnight.

But basically I just lost my bottle while jumarring

I think I might have one last crack at it maybe at the end of summer - but I think I need to take a good few days off work to get up to buffalo a day early and have one day up my sleeve if it goes longer than 2 nights on the wall for some reason.

One thing I did notice was that it was the jugging on a fixed line that pushed me over the edge - and it was the same thing that really did it the first attempt too.

Day one was fine - leading the first 2 pitches was ok - and getting up to big grassy ( be it in the dark ) also felt ok. But when i was jugging up from big grassy to the next belay it just seemed REALLY exposed and precarious. how do other people find jugging on a single fixed line ? it just strikes me that in every other situation you have a main and back up where when on a single line - even though I had 2 Jumars and a back up micro traxion on the line if the line goes, its all over red rover !

Would be good to know your thoughts chockstoners !