Looking down on Eagles
The day after I arrived in SA I was up at 3:40am!!!!
And I thought this was a holiday. You guys in Ireland will be pleased to know that it got down to -0.5 degrees before we got
to Harrismith to do some multipitch climbing. I'll put the photos up when I get them from Stephen.
That was about all the cold weather that we got tho, as soon as the sun came out
it got up to 25degrees and its stayed around there since then, so Winter is going
very well so far :D
We did some easy routes on the first day so that I could teach my Stephen how to climb
multipitches and then on the second day we committed ourselves to Fight the Feeling a 21 (SA Sports Grade)
6 pitch route. It was awesome, got some serious sowing machine leg while trying to clip the
bolt on the crux move about 50/60m high on a very exposed pitch, but some how managed to stay
on and got it. Then when the 2 of us were on the next pitch we looked down and there was an
immature black eagle soaring below us. Thats a sight that I will remember for a long time,
looking down on a black eagle. Its a sweet route, some really cool moves and some really fun roofs on
it. It definatly has the best last move of any route that I've done, one of the hardest moves on the
entire route climbs over a roof and onto the top of the mountain, brilliant route and very worthy of
its name :) You should have seen the view from the top, everything around was almost flat and this little hill springs up about 150/200m out of the ground, so I don't think that I've ever looked over so much of africa, or anywhere in the world at the same time before.
multipitches and then on the second day we committed ourselves to Fight the Feeling a 21 (SA Sports Grade)
6 pitch route. It was awesome, got some serious sowing machine leg while trying to clip the
bolt on the crux move about 50/60m high on a very exposed pitch, but some how managed to stay
on and got it. Then when the 2 of us were on the next pitch we looked down and there was an
immature black eagle soaring below us. Thats a sight that I will remember for a long time,
looking down on a black eagle. Its a sweet route, some really cool moves and some really fun roofs on
it. It definatly has the best last move of any route that I've done, one of the hardest moves on the
entire route climbs over a roof and onto the top of the mountain, brilliant route and very worthy of
its name :) You should have seen the view from the top, everything around was almost flat and this little hill springs up about 150/200m out of the ground, so I don't think that I've ever looked over so much of africa, or anywhere in the world at the same time before.
Aaah, I should have sung that "I'm the king of the castle and you're the dirty rascles" But I forgot.
Later
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Good words.
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