Ω One is a little gelatinous treat for those who think ‘PC’ stands for personal computer; the other is a snow-dweller.
At Flock Hill on Friday, three people (none were Inuit) went bouldering in the snow. [Editorial note: Do you see what I did there? I started with a sentence about Eskimos, and next thing you know I’m talking about bouldering at Flock Hill]
Speaking of bouldering, there wasn’t a great deal of choice at Flock Hill, on account of the 20 metres of bone dry powder that had fallen earlier in the week and not melted [Editorial note: please don’t mistake the massive exaggeration about snow fall in that sentence as a statement in earnest. And while I’m on the subject, Tauranga is not actually 9000kms from the nearest bouldering].
Back to the story, a few things were dry enough to try. Like Trifecta Middle V13? and Acapulco V10? [Editorial note: the question marks arise from the fact that I don’t know what the true grade of each of those problems is, so I’ve made a guess. Actual results may vary depending on how dry your skin is].
Moving on, still basking in the glow of his exposé in The Climber, Pete Allison made rad progress on Trifecta Middle, notwithstanding the snow issue. [Editorial note: I predict that Pete will re-Pete this problem. You heard it here first!]
Meanwhile, earlier in the day, James and I made good progress on Acapulco and odds are that by time you’ve worked your way through the editorial notes in this post, James will have sent. I’m hoping to also send, sometime before my 50th birthday [Editorial note: nothing to add here].
Lastly, I tried A Saucerful of Secrets V10 in the dark, and got close to sticking this ultra-mega-morpho dyno. It’s like Rocketpants for men. But I’m just a boy. So I didn’t do it. [Editorial note: I don’t think Rocketpants can possibly be a compound word. Zac, can you help me out here?]
Finally, as the sun set, the hoar frost settled and James gobbled down the last Eskimo, I thought to myself “how did the Inuits ever top out on their boulder problems?”. I’m off to search mountainz.co.nz for an answer. Ω
“like Rocketpants for men”. Genius.
I’m pretty sure you aren’t allowed on mountainz any more. You ask tricky questions and hurt alpinists brains.
Aye, I’ve been banned from mountainz. It seems my views there weren’t welcome, and I didn’t demonstrate enough wit (or kiss enough arse).
Good thing you have you’re own website…although I suppose you could ban yourself from it if you really wanted to.