Braw when a plan comes together.

Having had enough of working for goalless idiots and dealing with managers with more faces than a church clock.

The very lovely Mhairi and i went on a well needed wee summer jolly,

We flew to Munich and proper rodded a fiat Punto Evo

(i think it was short for evostick)

  

We like the Autobhan- oh yeah ! 

Alpine Meadows were a blurr and we were soon in Austria. 

This trip was really to go and cheer for team GB

and obviously we hoped to get a few mountain days.

Ah !  Honey we do not have the right gear with us,

was for me a grand excuse to go craging.

(Totally loving getting spanked on a F8a slab puzzle)

We found the Crags of the Inn valley, over three hundred bolted lines

Most within ten minutes of the road and superb climbing. and its only fifteen minutes from Imst.

Mhairi decided she would lead a cool looking line, that threaded its way between some roofs, for a while i was distracted by the sun dappled trees and the noise of the glacial river, but then Mhairi seemed to leap - no dyno - no jettison herself a full 2m to the left roof system. then she started bawling "theres a f***n snake" all while clinging by one arm, feet flailing about in the wind.  Most impressed she was still on, i was, and she decided, i as the hunter gatherer should fetch the beast.

Now iv watched the dudes on the telly catch huge snakes by the tail with no probs, so i thought hes only wee - however - wee is fast and proper pist off, he was -- anyhoo when i had him by the tail 40ft up and sat in the rope,

the tension seemed to go in the system and i whizzed to the deck only to see my belayer disappear in a cloud of chalk dust into the Forrest. after some promises of ant filled rolls with German sausage, she returned to take this pic.

Why have we not had the GB Team here on free days, i dont know.

Standing on a quiet street one evening tucked away in the Tyrolean mountains.
We turned round to see the whole GB team
on their predatorial evening pizza hunt.

These two pizza crushers made us proud as usual

at their first international comp held in Imst, Austria.
After the comp,Mhairi and i continued in our mission to explore this stunning country.

Mhairi insisted on piloting our electroboat on lake Achinsee, Austria's

version of Blackpool Beach but much warmer and a little more pleasing to the eye.

One end of the lake is not so cheesy and we happily stayed with our new friend Thomas at his very nice campsite,out tour of Austria was really ace and highly recommended for a climbing family.

This crusher here winning the 2010 Skymasters

He has always made me proud but to win this event, speaks volumes about his climbing ability.

Had a fab experience watching these two, on the apprentice day

Cioch direct and arrow route,

Six hours and ten pitches, if you stop for multiple lunches !

Robert , Dylan and Stevie get selected for this years world Championships along with a few other Scots, fantastic crew ! big well done. 

All i ever dreamed of, was one day for my two crushers to be competing together in an international,

Plans coming together full circle make me smile.

Tanera Beag project has been always in my mind, all summer, every trip we tried and tried , sometimes beaten by weather but mainly coz we kept falling off.

The crew came out to the island with us for my birthday - awe-

The day was fab and i was made up, because i took all the wee ones fishing in the morning and within an hour all had caught a fish, its braw when a plan comes together.

But on Sun 15th aug Robert finaly completed out Anti Social Behaviour Order, Fueled by a huge chunk of chocolate birthday cake, eaten on our favourite ledge.

 I have to say it was, scary to watch and im not really sure if he understood that my plan was to drop him in the sea, as he would most definitely have skelpt the roof this time.

He was so far away from the last gear my arse was proper winking for him.

 I had payed out enough slack to be proper dynamic but as he caught the good holds, i just started reaming out the rope through the belay device, so as to ensure no impact damage to the cliff.

 

So far 2010 much interesting - Bring on the World championships -

If proud is a molecule of water - i am a whole ocean right now!