#Hillbilly rock hillbilly roll dance free#

Once on top I pried the knot off the spike it had impaled on, reset the ab down the nest side, said a few prayers and zoomed down. The re-ascent went ok, although the joy of movement had somewhat departed by this stage. Unfortunately the landing zone I'd ended up in was amidst a thicket of spiky, stingy, prickly macchia and I got shredded making my way down and round. Fortunately, It was a mild grade and I felt ok soloing it. I considered my life choices for a moment and decided that it would be easier to re-climb the route than bounce up the ropes in reascending them. Fortunately I was right, and landed triumphant on the side away from the hornets. I decided that perhaps, after all, I could drape the rope the other side and it might not cut through if I was very careful and just crept down like a sliding shadow. Unfortunately there were now clouds of angry insects both on the wall and at the landing. Fortunately, he'd unclipped and had the presence of mind to leg it down through the undergrowth.

Unfortunately his weight on the rope had now embedded them in the nest and, as I started to pull them up to clip in for my ab, a large section got severed and fell landing next to him. Fortunately, the lad duly whizzed down, caught himself and breathed a sigh of relief. This was not a plan that would have received approval from my spouse, but needs must.

#Hillbilly rock hillbilly roll dance free#

So we agreed to just more or less free fall past and then apply the brakes before decking.

Inspecting the top I couldn't see another way to lay out the ropes to avoid it without a significant risk of severing them on blade like edges. He got about 10m before reporting that the ropes had clipped the corner off a large hornets' nest and the former residents were a bit stirred up. We carefully arranged the ropes to avoid the worst of the razor edges and I sent the lad off over the shorter side at the back. The top of the pillar was deeply grooved limestone penitentes (I know penitentes are snow.but not sure what an identical looking formation of sharp, deep spikes in limestone is called?). This all went smoothly until the abseil descent. We were diverrted from our first objective by a rather angry and territorial billy goat, so changed our plan to instead climb a 2-pitch route up the front of a rather shapely pinnacle. A few years back, we had a family holiday in Cuba and I took a day out with the lad to go climbing.