went to castle hill for five days over new years. Bouldering trip for everyone else, active rehab + guiding (well pointing at problems that are old friends) + drinking trip for me. My girlfriend climbed until her fingertips were all raw, as did everyone else. Super-psyched crew and it was heaps fun pointing them at more and more climbs. I'm hoping to climb again by March. Fingers crossed. I can finally do a chinup without pain (been testing that every fortnight) so at least I can do some training i guess. The ticklist of routes and boulders for summer that i wrote back in early November isn't going to be seeing too much ticking. Well, not until late Autumn/winter anyway...
some castle hill sampling
1 - simple sample warmup smear/slopers V2 sunshine
2 - in this photo i have just sandbagged my girlfriend. At the moment this photo is taken she believes the start 3 moves (V4-ish) are the crux...
3 - trickystartjuggyfinish a classic V2 (?)
4 - moving from a weird sloper to a smallish two finger sloping crimp. Standard stuff. V-moderately hard.
5 - settling a beer bet. Turns out that this V5 isn't that much harder barefoot... crux is the move to the pocket he's on now, second almost crux is the throw he's about to make
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