Nowra Season Begins

Just a brief rundown on what has been happening ove the past month. Pete webster and I spent a few weeks climbing in the Blue Mountains mainly at Bardens Lookout and Diamond Falls. A liitle bit frustrating of late as the weather is quite unpredictable. So I have decided to start my Nowra season a little prematurely doing some rock climbing at Cheesedale and PC. I climbed Some kind of Bliss(31/8b), Cheesemonster(30/8a+) and Julians new route at Bardens Booby Trap(29/30). These are all classics and I especially wanted to do Bliss before I headed to Nowra. I have been a little unfortunate however, I did have my heart set on spending some quality time at Diamond Falls. I would have liked to have done Mr tickle(32) and maybe even tried Tucker Time(33). My right hand middle finger has not been liking me much lately and trying Mr tickle reminded me of that! So for a change I think I will listen to my body and Mr T will have to wait.
Having said that, I still want to climb hard, just have to change the style of route! I spent 2 days on Attack Mode at PC and despite being eaten alive by mosquitos I think the conditions were quite good and made some acceptable progress:-) I felt like a fish out of water on this one, as it is not really my style and I have not bouldered hard for a while....but I think this is exactly why I am so attracted to this route.
Day one was a bit of a demoriliser getting shut down on 70% of the route, however by the end of the second day I had the underclings sorted and felt as if I could see myself sending the climb. Time will tell I guess. Pete climbed well sending Trigger Nigger(25) second shot, good way to start his Nowra season.
Got some good conditions yeterday and headed to Cheesedale with Carlie, Rob, Loesje and Lindsay.
Carlie has been working Cheesemonster(30) and is looking strong on it, while Loesje and Lindsay both climbed their first Cheesedale (22) Uncertainty Pleasure. Awesome! Zac was trying Cheesy Afro Box(33), coming ever so close falling off on the last move(this line looks bloody unreal). I was trying a route called Non-Dairy Cheese Monster(31) this line is awesome, it links the crux of Cheecemonster(30) and Non-Dairy(30) together and makes a solid pumper to the anchor, of course in true style I fell off the final hard move to the anchor again!
Anyway thought I would take the chance on a rest day to write this up....Back to Nowra tomorrow for a couple of days to of crushing!
Also some lil Nowra punks have been stealing stuff around South Central so do not leave your climbing pack unattended especially in school Holidays!!!
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Thankyou for taking the time to read this :-) Norry

Sitting on a rope somewhere in Nowra     Scott Pritchard

Another day of bad conditions at DF

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