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Rock Climbing - What are you psyched about? 11-Jun-2009 At 3:33:14 PM evanbb

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On 11/06/2009 billk wrote:
>Climbed Didgeridoo in the dark two weekends ago. Ti got the last rays of
>daylight as she topped out, then I flicked on my headtorch and followed
>up.

Which reminds me of my first trip to Arapiles. We were a group of 3 total Bumblies, learning to lead trad from scratch, in a week. This culminated in an epic ascent of Tip Toe Ridge on our last day. I remember sitting at the last belay with Jamie, watching the sunset across the Wimera and thinking how lovely it all was... then we both realised what this meant. I've got a pic at home of the Moment Of Realisation, which is Gold. I'll dig it up. Doing the last pitch in the dark was excellent fun, climbing one handed holding a pen torch. We were a bit dubious about Andy's ability to build an anchor, let alone in the dark, yet I got to the belay and found he'd slung 4 trees, each of which I would have rapped off!