2010 is it…

Had a good xmas – new years break. Well wasn’t really a break only had weekends and public holidays off but had fun doing cool things.
XMas day 10 of us got up early and went for a surf, i managed to stand up in the end but with no leash doggy paddle back to shore to get the board was tiring.
Then went up the pipes with Claire and she did the crux pitch of “Lone Stranger” 20 her hardest ever trad lead, was AWESOME
Then went to Zach’s (and co’s) new place and ate lots of food
Great way to spend xmas day 🙂
Next day went up to Topher’s place to stay for a few night, the plan to put up the new route at “Mother Cummings”. Topher had been talking it up all year so it was good to finally go up there and do the route with him. It was a 60m crack in a corner, went at grade 19? we did it in 2 pitches (if you took 5x #3 camalots or some balls you could do it in 1 pitch) I got the second pitch, scared myself climbing around some lose block (see video below) but it was fun. My first real first ascent. Psyched to do more, not really but i can see why others love it 🙂
On the second day I was soft and didn’t climb anything but Topher did a new 30m grade 19? looked like fun. Then we went to the summit and had some fun Trundling Rocks, the first 1 I did bumped into another 1 which was HUGE and went tumble off the side, nothing topped that one for the day 🙂

New years eve Deano and I went up the Pipes and did “The Shield” 51m 20 and “Tartarus” 60m 21
I got shutdown on both but both are awesome. When we got to the summit we watch a cool lighting storm before heading backup down to Hobat, quickly eating some MiGoreng drinking a G&T with Amanda and her son Jack, then went down to the wharf and watched the fireworks.

Hmm what else, I fell on “Nefarious” 25m 22 but went back 2 days later and got it clean.
Got “Bad Habits” 15m 23 second shot
“After Midnight” 50m 24 was my project this time last year, Claire really want to climb it so I went back up to do it thinking I’d have to have a rest on the way up but got up it clean and easier than i did last year so that was cool. Rapped over “Pleasant Screams” 55m 26, looks really cool, the first pitch is only 25 so keen to start working on that 🙂

Off to to the Western Arthur’s on Friday 15th for a 8 day walk, hopefully the knees hold out =/ pretty excited to go there. The reason i started walking was to go see Lake Oberon and i never made it got a bit distracted with climbing and don’t walk much anymore…

XMas day surfing

1st pitch “I’d rather be picking goat balls” new route “Mother Cummings”

2nd pitch “I’d rather be picking goat balls” new route “Mother Cummings”

Tophers 2nd new route at mother cummings

New Years Eve – Lightning on Mt Wellington summit

New Years Eve – Lightning on Mt Wellington summit

New Years Eve – Lightning on Mt Wellington summit

Anna red pointing “Bad Habits” 15m 23 her first 23?

Cleaning “I’d rather be picking goat balls” new route “Mother Cummings”

Trundling Rocks “Mother Cummings”

Lightning on new years eve “Mt Wellington” Tasmania