spent the weekend at arapiles. we didn’t get a whole lot done. wandering up a climb on dunes buttress on sunday, we managed to spend at least an hour sleeping on one of the belay stations, watching the hoards streaming up missing link, with none of us feeling particularly motivated to do the final pitch of our own climb. in the end i was convinced to do it, on the grounds that i’d been climbing the longest – despite my defence that it was someone elses turn, as i’d just led the last pitch (just being probably an hour ago by the time we got around to moving again) . and my convincing arguments that corey should do it because he was stronger, or that maria should do it, because she’d led the first pitch. all of this over 25 metres of grade 12, mmm, sweet summer apathy.
a few photos from the trip …
corey’s attractive rope, shimmering in the sunlight
maria on pilot error
me, hauling my way up on over pilot error. i’ve actually got my teeth bared – must come with the campusing.
an entertaining german on missing link. anyone who owns the mentz and tempest arapiles guidebook will probably find this image a little familiar, if perhaps a little browner…
5 replies on “weekending at arapiles”
Say, that’s a damn sexy rope :) We actually got Megan to climb the last pitch through a carefully planned process of… ganging up… and then… offering to buy her dinner in Horsham that night… it worked ;) I think I could of sat around on that ledge for at least another hour before giving in and doing the last pitch of that stupid climb, it was evil I tell you :)
mmmm, dinner was good actually, it was almost worth it :)
Hey that piccy looks like somthin outta the guide book (ok i only just saw your comment on that hahaa)
I miss arapiles :(
Cant make out the barred teeth but after being bitten so many times i think i know the look ouch. You kids look hardcore. What climb were u on?
i mean that you were all trying to get outta leading?
we were on… i think it was called dunes – it was a 13. we were going to do the 15, but by the time we trekked up to the base of the cliff we’d already started getting lazy :)