shanja
01-29-2009, 11:12 AM
Mid-week climbing is sooo good. Andy and I made the trip down and basically had a monstrously grand time. Though about 50 others did show up through the day, the Y can easily handle that many without it feeling at all crowded. We had the whole of Grape Wall (포도봉) to ourselves in the afternoon, and could have had the hardmans Persimmon wall to ourselves in the morn, only we opted to climb the near empty Apple instead...a 60m rope was long enough for the right hand end of apple and for grape walls (just). I now sport a mysterious egg sized bruise on right shin, a puncture on the left shin, Andy got a fat lip from some popped ice and we broke a pick...but we were both totally stoked to have climbed so much and in such a great atmos. gave 3 Pyeongtaek climbers a lift back to the Yeong Dong Train station too and they say they know "Mike" so, "Mike" (mil-mil? shagymb?) our best too.