Rain, hail, and shine

It was raining most of the way out to the hill on Saturday. A lot of the time it can pour down for the entire journey from Christchurch yet clear up a few minutes before arrival. However, this was not to be the case.

We sat in the car for an hour waiting for the rain to clear. I was almost ready to bail, but Sebastian was determined to wait it out as it was the only day he could climb. We decided to go for a walk and see if we could find any dry problems. On the way we knocked on Pete's car to see what he was planning to do. He held up a 40 ounce of whisky with a grin on his face.

We soon bumped into Sefton, Steve, and Stu working on Punkage (V9) and Tricky (V6). It seemed mostly dry so I ran back and grabbed my shoes. Sefton managed to grab a send of Punkage in a handful of goes while Steve repeatedly hucked himself at Tricky until the job was done.

After a couple of hours at Punkage the rain started to subside. Pete could be seen skipping along in the distance to find some dry problems. The 40 ounce was nowhere to be seen...

Later in the day Sefton and I managed to repeat Quantum Mechanics (V7) and then everyone headed down to Crash and Burn (V10) to watch Stu and Sebastian battle on the very committing top moves.

As we started to get pelted again by some precipitation, we headed for the last dry problem at the hill, Fidel Castro (V9). Sebastian quickly repeated and dished out some beta for the rest of us. Although the beta helped, we were simply too weak. We struggled on the problem until the crux hold was saturated from the rain. Time to pull pin and bail...