First Blood

Once again Gilligan, the Grasshopper and Red, who will henceforth be known as Rambo the Hippy. Try to picture the following: Harry Potter glasses on Rambo; Paisley Park style head band; Red Rambo hairdo and you have got yourself Rambo the Hippy. Where were we, thats right, Gilligan, the Grasshopper and Rambo the Hippy were confronting their nemesis Chip A Hold Away.

Gilligan was first up and cruised easily to the crux. However, his dodgy finger and foot placements allowed the crux to be unconquered. Gilligan’s second attempt was much

The Grasshopper climb was pitiful. The first bolt presented a big challenge and decided to traverse around it. At the crux, with the help of Gilligan’s belaying the Grasshopper well up the wall to the last crucial move. No amount of hauling could get the Grasshopper past this. Still pumped he descend off the climb and then raced up By Ignorance in bare feet.

Rambo the hippy pounced his way up to the crux. Like the rest of us he had the same difficulties.

Knees Up Mother Brown

Bigfoot started early with a 30 minute epic on By Ignorance: he managed to get both feet off the ledge without the aid of the wedgie manoeuvre, but that’s as far as he got. Next up, the Giggler failed to find anything funny about scary, dark ledges. She inspected all of the available footholds, but didn’t find any of them to her liking. Finally, Bigfoot tackled the climb a second time, but found that the strength in his forearms was spent. He decided to try the "chicken route" up the right hand side of the ledge and made good progress, but saw that Gilligan & Rambo had started packing up their TR gear so he decided to come down. There was one last bit of excitement as Bigfoot had climbed far off route and thus did a big Tarzan swing when he let go of the cliff. The rope stretched to the point that his feet touched back down on the ledge, where he was happy to have a more conventional descent from that point on.