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In Harms Way (19), My first retreat. 12-Aug-2010 At 8:04:57 PM russianSpy

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patto,

funny you mention that climb, we did a very similar thing of swinging exactly at the same spot. I was freezing my butt off belaying whilst the guy I met only a day or two before that in the Pines (top bloke, by the way!) was being awfully quiet and really not moving much on something that allegedly was a 14.

From memory he did warn me that we had wandered and I do remember looking up at the chalked up holds on the orange wall, seeing how it should be done and knowing full well that I'm pretty physically incapable of doing that, let alone cleaning the gear and not smacking myself repeatedly against the right when I'd inevitably pendulum into then trying to get back on.

Probably one of my first moments in climbing when the mental mode switched from "no way I can do this" to "well, I gotta, so lets figure out how".. and reignited my love/hate of traverses

Was immensely relieved to have retreated from Second Coming and came back to finish Lamplighter the next day (and enjoyed it massively, too!).

I wonder how many navigationally challenged or suitably distracted others have done this!

=)