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Felix Trombe trip
Friday, July 15th, 2011 at 7:21 am
Did the long hot drive down to the Pyrenees over two days. It was raining when we set up in the campsite.
Becka caved for the next four days with Patrick and two others. I joined them for one of them, on the streamway part of their piecewise through trip. There were canyoning style pull-throughs — circular metal links dangling down on chains that you had to feed the rope through and somehow get your descender onto.
This rope was 8.5mm in diameter or “nearly 9mm” (where you can use the word “nearly” as in the phrase “this rope can nearly hold my weight”), and I had been whinging about it non-stop since they’d bought it. Seemed okay in the end.
Luckily everything else in the cave was rigged with fixed ropes for the traverses and a couple of these wire bridges, or the trip would have been impossible.
I programmed in the yoga room on the campsite on the other days.
Today we are just outside of Laruns in a one room apartment. I haven’t been canyoning yet. But the T-de-F passes through here today on its way up the Aubisque. We’re heading up there ahead of the race to do a via ferrata and then watch the riders come by. I demand my quota of fench pastries.
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1. John replies at 27th July 2011, 7:17 pm :
Glad you enjoyed the trip. It was good to have everyone together in France enjoying themselves.
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