Fatneck's Birthday Bash 2010

Sat 30th Jan

We had a good laugh this weekend with around 20 people cramming into some vehicles and hitting the Ysgo hard. Sadly we went from blue skies and sunshine into a tempest of freak weather.

It was snowing at Sea level covering the boulders and then melting instantly to make it a bit tricky to climb anything. This happened on and off for a few hours while we chilled and finally got some climbing in with about 2 hours of daylight left.

Dolph was working the Fred Nicole project which looked ok from a distance but clearly brick hard when you actually feel the holds and positions that are required to link said holds!

Me and the Maskell beast were a bit gutted about Tide of Dreams being soaking wet and off the menu as we didn't have much else to get on with.

There were some good ascents of problems with Smooth Pete crushing Perrins Blind crack from a sitter and Ben show ponying his way up Incredible shaking man with immaculate technique ;)

It was nice to repeat these sitters and also Truth sds. It was great to see Jamie and Gruff there and especially to see Jamie utterly piss Truth (the first time I have ever seen him complete a boulder problem, clearly the Mill training is paying off!)

An old nemesis was also retro flashed, the spectacular Really Cool Toys from a shitter. What a line.

Sat Evening

We went the Chippy in Abersoch and had what can only be described as whales in batter on a sea of chips. it was nice and greasy and helpd absorb the pints from next door.

Back to the bunkhouse and it mostly involved eating chocolate, drinking vino and playing with Lego as well as crushing Fatneck's crossword (despite having to correct some atrocious spelling errors from previous attemptees).

Sun 31st Jan

We got up very hungover on the whole and watched it rain and hail for a good couple of hours. Most of them decided to risk the ysgo whilst team psyche went to check Elephantitus. As we drove through thick blizzards it was clearly not going to be an option (at the risk of benightment), so we continued to Llandudno.

We got some smacky food at the Asda as well as strong £8 lumberjack coats and went for some scran at a local cafe that had horrible 70's faded pink wallpaper with flowers on. It was all very league of gentlemen inside and it was a relief to make it out to the cave and back to sanity.

I kept going white but decided to punish the body more and climb it out the system. The warmup went well and before I knew it, I was eyeing up the finishing hold on In Hell only for my left hand to slide off wet after picking up a loadon the wet undercut pinch. Gutted but also amazed I fell to my knees and dry heaved a bit before calming down.

I'm psyched out my mind that In Hell is already a possible next sessioner (avoiding being 2nd day on with shit skin and a hangover and it could go well!)