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Miguel75 and PhillipIvan go gardening. 21-Feb-2014 At 4:08:52 PM phillipivan

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>A minor blessing that you may not have considered is that taking laden
>wombats up the south side track is not fun, so your fast and light approach
>was good to that end!

Slow and light. But still. I am reminded of a wonderful quote one of my colleagues in the industry taught me: I may be slow, but at least I'm expensive. For those that don't know what I do for a living, it's probably much funnier still.

>I once had a partner bail on that wall, resulting in us camping at the
>base an extra night just to scoff our food, so we didn't have to carry
>it out, as we had full kit including portaledges etc.
>Heh, heh, heh.

Really the walk up and out isn't that bad. Not with our loads anyway. Unlike Mikey, I figure I'll be hiking up that track many more times in the years to come, this does not bother me one bit.

>>Looking up my nostrils, and towards the rooves;
>
>Scary stuff, ... the nostrils I mean! Interestingly that shot also captures
>part of Better than Disneyland, an M9 'splitting the wall' between O &
>LG, ... a different kind of scary for you to ponder when you return for
>the success that will be sweeter given your wall attempt this time.

Does that come up the fine and clean crack to the right of Mikey's large head? I was admiring it. Where does it go once the crack ends or curves to the left?

More trivia: at the first belay, so the end of pitch 1 of Ozi / LG there is an additional pair of belay bolts about three meters right in a sea of moss. What route is that for? I thought it might have been Crimes of Passion, but the guide says it shares the 1st 10m of LG's 2nd pitch, so that doesn't seem right.

>~> Back to making my new rope out of sewn caterpillars now, for a really-clean
>ascent of LG since the lads have done the gardening just before a thunderstorm!
>Sshhh, don't anyone tell them that the rock up higher gets cleaner!
>;-)

Hmm yes. It will be less work for any one who goes up there in the coming months thanks to M75's gardening.
Miguel75 completely failed to convey just how impressive the thunderstorm that rolled in around 8pm was. I was both tremendously relieved and disappointed not to be on the wall at the time.