Winding Back The Clock To 1995

With Dave J up from Tasmania for a week we organised a day climbing with the old guard. Eight of us shared belays and some good climbing. Special mention to Jules, Dan and the two Steves (Lind and Jones) returning to Berowra for the first time since 1995. It was also good to see the crags latest developer Gav drop in on his way to Singapore.We got a heap of climbing done. One notable ascent was Dave Js flash of Grumpy Old Men (23) which was also nearly sent by Steve (photos above) and Ace. Dave went close to flashing Are You My Pussy (23) a new route I established last month (see the video below). Gav did another first ascent sending his route on the pocket wall calling it Torque is Cheap, a very solid grade 22.

We enjoyed alot of the old classics. Dan, Steve L, Jules and Steve J all did the appropriately named Yesterdays Heros (17) and Ladder of Gloom (19). Dave, Ace and I did Scones of Doom (23), the funky jug-a-thon Luv Handles (21) and the all time classic Ladder of Death (22) (below).
I managed to repeat Dingo (24) a very short but bouldery route (see photo of Ace below or video of me below), Are You My Pussy (23) and also got the second ascent of Gavs new route Torque is Cheap (22) aswell as some old classics. All in all a fantastic day out and good to see the posie back on rock.