During the walk-in through a field, Tommy took a slip and I've never seen a set of legs move so fast to regain balance, like something out of a Tom and Jerry cartoon. I laughed so hard I nearly cried.
After a few traverses as warm up, it was time to face the music and dance. Back on the wall that hurt us so much last week, both physically and mentally, we got to work. Tommy nearly cracked it on his first attempt and this motivated me to follow in his footsteps. We spent all morning working the route, on a couple of occasions due to rock split we had to change the paths of our movements, in some cases making the route easier and others making it impossible. Not too many falls this week, although Tommy took a big one ending up with his axe hooked in the crash mat 6 inches from his head - check out the video evidence!
We both completed the route, although we didn't finish where we thought we would, but it was still an awesome tick that would be interesting to see others try.
Tommy and I will hopefully be out training on the tools prior to 'Ice Fest' in Jan 2012! Hopefully we can find more challenging routes on more stable rock.
Today was a great opportunity to get some footage and Tommy is hard at work putting together a masterpiece of a climbing vid. I'll upload ASAP.
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| Tommy representing DO SUMMIT GOOD |
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| The Wall |
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| Tommy looking at the route |
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| Tommy on his athletes diet!!!! |
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| Working the tools |
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