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year long climbing trip around oz 5-Sep-2011 At 12:12:29 AM Olbert

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On 4/09/2011 Wendy wrote:
>On 4/09/2011 One Day Hero wrote:
>>Ollie is up to about 6 months, last I heard he's given up climbing to
>hitchhike
>>and throw tomatos.
>
>the north face of the eiger would do that to me too
Not nearly enough hitchiking - I have smashed through $1200 in two weeks without even trying. You're both right though - its sooo hard to keep up the psych. I think it helps though if you have good climbing, when we landed in Germany and climbed for a bit at the Frankenjura, it was too shit to inspire us so we did hardly anything. We got to Switzerland and there was some better climbing but we still didnt spend that many days climbing compared to days spent not climbing, probably a 50 50 ratio. Then we did the Eiger and since then I havent done anything. I reckon if we had have been at some of the amazing Spanish/French/wherever crags then we would have been much more psyched.

At least I hope so as thats what I'll be doing for the rest of my trip, after this week. Also I really hope that it is as good, or at least in the ball park of Red River Gorge, because I have basically compared every sport crag I've been to to that and none have come close.

On a slightly related note, has anyone else who has been to the Red ever been to a crag that compares? I'm finding it hard to believe that anything can come close