Wednesday, September 20, 2006
Nestled under the crumbling feet of the Old Man, with an obvious tail feed approach of Atlantic bound hurricane Gordon streaking the sky...I pulled away an eighteen inch loose tuffa that provided important initial small cam protection on my own steep Short Storries today, making it bolder still into the huecos, a few years on. The initial gear below the steep section of Ripping Yarns has also become questionable. The A4 sized niched block has fractured badly & rattles in it's socket...Set amongst the Storrs fragile Tertiary basalt lavas, in a state of constant flux, settlement & failure, climbing here is always an exercise in delicacy & cautionary manoevering set amongst wild streaks of solid runouts gone bold. Behind & in condition, the deep screaming fingered chasms of winter spindrift & ice, are the also amongst the best I have had the pleasure of jamming myself into...
This aged Skyeman, standing amongst an increasing amount of postboard rockfall warnings needs some attention & care, although I'm glad to see he hasn't lost all his hair in the westerly Beaufort 7 & 8s. Pebble dandruff came clattering hail-like onto every dusky slope, dragged skittering from shrouded summits down through cavernous gullied rear walls & flung across the lochans, tapping out erratic rice-krispie code...The collie was in pursuit heaven as I applied careful leverage surgery to the most dangerous events...It becomes more apparent every year, that one day the oldest Sgitheanach of them all will grow tired of his sentry & lay down for good...
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Well..I hope you brave souls approve of the new blog layout. The majority of link activations will follow in random, whenever an item is tweaked into satisfactory completion, & or, there are days of winter rain, injury or frustration, or indeed, any combination of those events. For now, I know a fella who's making positive sounds about repeating my own Lewissian power line, You Can Put A Man In School - But You Can't Make Him Think - E7,7a, during which, I will provide the services of guide, blether monkey, & attentive compitent belay.
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