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Rod's Euro 2010 - Trip Report 12-Aug-2010 At 10:19:23 PM rod

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its raining, thank goodness...i'm knackered.

did another couple of big days lead and toprope soloing. got on 2 likely projects via toproping with the shunt but the angle and slopers aren't overly conducive. here's a photo, they're the 2 arete's and the photo is deceptive as the one on the left is about 3 metres overhanging in its 18m.

went for a mid-mountain jaunt looking for new rock, found it very dolomitic but with a hint of conglomerate around what was a 1 or 2 hour reccie turned into an 8 hour hunt for approaches and different styles.

right at the end i came across a magnificent limestone/conglomerate boulder in a brilliant setting, 30 minute walk in. it's between 5 and 8 metres high and the size of a garage with routes on all sides.

this is a view from the top of the boulder, awesome folds in the limestone cliffs which look to offer good rock...approaches are a mission but they're doable.

some of the slabs on the bigger cliff faces look to be similar to the structure of the boulder so i'm going to organise a few more crew and see what we can put up.

had a late climb after work last night with cyrille at one of those natural surprise city centre quartzite sites that seem to occur with surprising regularity around here. these guys have really got it good climbing wise.