Fazday

The Crew talked about a Sunday climb last Monday since the last Monday of the year is New Years Eve. Despite the rainy week, Sunday seemed to be dry enough for a late morning climb. The Teacher and the Grasshopper answered the Urban Crag jungle drums and setup on Anonymous (14) and Fourex (25).

The Grasshopper is now relegated to easy climbs and even finds these somewhat "difficult" now. He moved onto Fourex and was spat off just above the first both runner! The finger was hurting pretty bad. More easy training next time to strengthen the fingers and condition himself before tackling harder climbs he thinks.

The Teacher did well to get to the crux. Here a big dyno is required. The Teacher hang onto the undercling and crouched ready to pounce onto the far away hold. He leapt and could only get fingertips to touch the ledge. A few attempts was enough as holding himself onto the precarious position was taxing enough.

As we packed up and headed towards the stairs, we bumped into Dan Fazbrother and his Fazkids: Isaac, Nathan and Luke. We offered them a climb on an easy grade 12 for the kids (and the big kid Dan). The Teacher lead and setup a top rope for them. Dan cleaned the climbed and was very jubilant in getting to the top. By now it was late afternoon and the Teacher and the Grasshopper had to make tracks. We left the Fazbrother and kids to their own devices where hopefully Isaac and Nathan got to do some challenging and fun rock climbing. Meanwhile, Luke was taking it real easy and having a kip beneath the fig tree.