In reply to J101:
>... ... ... There had been a huge mudslide onto the road at the start last time I did it (last August)... ...
Bloomin Eck!! I was there towards end August last year, let's say it was a bit wet and windy!! A5 closed landslide, lots of poor folk flooded out in various places. In the midst of all that a rock threw up by someone in other direction and smashed my windscreen, had a total epic trip and it wasn't even the climbing.
Edit: had taken my son to give him his first real taste of some outdoors adventure. We went for snakes and ladders, there was a LOT of water pouring in to Australia. The tunnel at top of snake was full of water, well just about everything was full of water! I think I put him off a bit perhaps as a first introduction it was more flavour than he was after. Maybe when he's another year older I'll try again, apart from the broken windscreen, I loved it
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