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There seems to be a debate on what really happened at Comic Wall that fateful day when Fearless Leader took a leader fall and decked. According to an old trip report from Lelek Le Grunt, it was a combination of Joanna and Zeyus (not stating who the belayer was) that saved Fearless’ hide that day…

25 August 2003

Well, looks like the Rockrats found a new hunting ground.

Comic Wall, with its mostly overhanging routes now dominates our RC thoughts. From my limited experience with that wall, I’ve tried out only 3 routes. Most of the names are in Malay, so I thought I’d rename them to suit our experiences.

The easiest was quite far to the right. I call it “Cobwebs”, by virtue of the fact that you can tell who’s tried it out by the cobwebs in their hair after the climb. Its the longest route there and the book grades it a 5C, although crossing the mini chasm to the start scared the bejeesuz outta me. Lowering from that route is pretty scary as well, although Holdbreaker Ng thumped his chest in masochistic bravado and grunted, “Who me? scared?”

The next two that I tried were pretty much at the top or beyond my range.

“Reachy”, by virtue of the fact that most of the moves there are pretty reachy and SmallPerson Tan will have trouble with this route. Combat Gurl made it to the top with a bit of hanging. Holdbreaker is projecting this route. Thin Man canes it with no problem. I vote we break one toe on each foot of his la, he’s making things look too easy…

“Disaster”. I’ve saved the best for last… First incident at this route was when I arrived at the shop lots on sat afternoon and called Holdbreaker for directions. His response? “Hold on, a bit of trouble here, will come get you in a sec.” Apparently ThinMan did a dive monkey right then and ended up upside down. Holdbreaker hangs once and canes the rest of the route, leading it with no problems. Next, combatgurl cleans the draws, again with no problems. I try it next, but because its been cleaned there were no lunners holding me to the wall (overhanging, remember?) First time I drop, I drop and swing and in mid-sentence, smash into the rocks _behind_ me… (I think the chalk marks from the exploding chalk bag is still there) Hokay, I try 2 more times before calling it quits.

The next day, we’re back at the rocks and more incidents happen at “disaster”. Firstly, Holdbreaker must have been extra worn out (MooMoo, MooMoo, told you…. give him a break) because this time round, he cant lead “Disaster”. Combatgurl leads again but takes a winger halfway, slamming Kerk (belayer) into the rocks where she bumped her bum. After that I finally managed to make it to the top, ripping skin from my fingers and living up to my name of Le Grunt. I also took a small toprope fall, but apparently, at that moment, Holdbreaker (belaying me) put his hand down to steady himself, banging it in the process on the sharp rocks jutting out all over the place.

Ok, next to try was Shameless, which leads us to the sterling performance of the day. Grabs the rope, pulls it up, cant clip in, falls and bangs his head on the rocks below. Kudos to Joanna and Zeus for a combined effort of bombproof belaying. I shudder to think what would have happened if Joanna had moved even one foot…

Next up was SimCity. Tries a few times and takes a massive winger that sees him giving up. “I’m alright!” He cries, for fear of my infamous spray-on dressing…

Finally MutantMan leads the thing, although I think he didn’t make it clean. Correct me if I’m wrong… I know at one stage he had to hang, but that’s my fault, I slipped, banged my shin on those blasted rocks and fell, accidentally pulling him off… Very sorry Muts…

After that, Shameless manages to put his demon to rest by clawing up the route.

No ones managed to clean the damn thing… (again, correct me if I’m wrong)

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