Friday night we camped out in a dry river bed mostly on a diet of flame roasted marshmellows and cookies warmed on the fire. This was followed by some late night arsing around and playing with fire (not a great idea i know, you get soot all over the place not to mention burning yourself!). The following morning we packed up camp and walked about a mile to a deep canyon locally known as "Prison Camp" (it used to be a WW2 prison when the US held the Japanese). The expert guys set up a few routes (or 'Rowts' as the American's say!) and we took to them at our leisure. Since this was my first time climbing - ever - i was quite chuffed at getting up several different climbs graded '7's whatever that means. Why can't they just have easy, medium, hard and suicidal?
On a side note, i saw my first rattlesnake in the USA. One of my American mates went reptile hunting and came across lots of lizards, frogs that can climb better than i can and a beautiful diamondback rattler.
So that was my weekend, im now left with just one piece of homework which is proving pretty hard and another week of classes out here at the UA, my 7th this semester! Unfortunately theres no funny news today, Reuters appear to give themselves the weekend off despite any big-breaking news. Besides, im still astonished that England beat the Aussie's in the Rugby World Cup - on current form, we didnt deserve to win but once again Johnny Wilkinson proves to be a thorn in Australia's game plan. Will we beat France in the semi's??? I'll be surprised and very impressed if we do!
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