Half-term training (burbage)

Much to write about, not sure how much il include.
Firstly il acount the camping trip to Burbage me, Tom, Dewi, Matt and Will went on, this was the second time we've done this. Me and Tom arived in the woods at about 11 and started collecting fire wood quickly and putting other sections to our ilamatic base which we were both extremely happy to see was fully intact. About half an hour later Dewi turned up and got stuck in helping out cutting up wood and building our miniture village.

After chilling out for a little bit eating a nutrigrain bar and having some water me and Dewi sharperned our spears and went for a quick hunt to the get the blood pumping, we spotted two sheep and pincer attacked round them, moving silently using the side step technique developed through parkour. Once we got to close they did the usal animal instict and stuck there heads up from the grass and just glared at us comfused, we decided to like wolfs and pick just one to go for, Dewi darted at it causing it to run in the opposit direction finding me i smacked at its side with my bo staff type weapon i was holding it swung round and charged at Dewi and had a bit of a scuff with him head butting him in the leg i quickly got to the scence and cracked it right in the ass with my bo staff then it just bombed it off into the woods were we intercepted it for about minute were we just ended up letting it run into the distance. Il just quickly elaberate, we dont try and kill the sheep we hunt (asif we even could) there to fast and its more just the thrill of the chase and team work of sneaking up in pincer type movements, also there so hardy from years of evolution the sheep in the peaks they can take being smacked by a few sticks without really feeling to much of it.



We headed back to camp and continued building up the base and collecting fire wood, we snuck down by the river avoiding being seen by an expedition of 12 of 15 people walking by the river which seperates the two parts of the woods. We sat down and relaxed enjoying each others compony and keeping a look out for Matt and Will who were getting to the woods for 1 oclock but didnt come with us the last time so had no idea were we camp, and probably wouldnt even be able to spot our camoflaged den even if theyd searched, after about ten minutes or so chilling by the stream we caught sight of them and went and met up and showed them to the camp.
We all got our gear and weapons together after two hours of all meeting up together and went out hunting. I cant really be bothered to go into the entire thing, but we hunted and played about the woods for hours going into secitons i didnt even know existed when i thought i had the whole place sussed out. It started to get very dark as we trecked through the woods back to camp, i really felt a sense of brotherhood (nothing in comparison as i do for my traceur friends) all moving through the woods together, regardless of how loud they all clomper stomped through.

We got to camp and had hour Tea and realised it was only half past five which shocked us all as it was about pitch black, we got the fire roaring to cook our food on and hung around talking and collecting fire wood till about nine when Me, Tom, Matt and Will went on a night mission to the high rocks of burbage. About half way there Will and Matt said i think we should go back to check on Dewi and ended up leaving us and not having the incredible experience, me thinks they got scared.



Once we finally reached the masive rocks faces we sat and absorbed our surroundings, just imagining the veiw since you could barley see and thing, full moons arent as bright as youd expect. We moved down to the bottom and i suprised Tom saying lets find a good bit to climb
i had a nice warm up getting used to the rocks climbing a fairly simple problem going up about 20 feet, then worked my way back down to find Tom again i got a really hard problem which was probably a silly thing to do because it nakered my arms out for the next climb i did and mite of nearly died. It was overhanging and you had to dyno all the way up for 15 feet which was made harder having to be so precise in the dark after getting half way up there was a nice little crack down the rock making it nice and easy to climb to the top for another 15 feet.

Yet another problem...this one was alot more based on technique and picking the right holds, this was a problem as i could barely see so i just had to mainly rely on strength, 10 feet up i could barely move my arms and below me darkness and jagged rocks on a hill. i managed to struggle my way up SLOWLY with my arms alomost unable to move they were so tired.

Tom then finally came into action and had his go at this climb, Toms got alot of upperbody strength, the same type of build as livewire and funnily enough, he's ridiculously good at handstands. Tom got up quite nicely as he was at full strength, we did a few more climbs with eachother for the rest of the night and headed back to camp were we met up with the others, we went on a couple more night missions just moving around the woods, went back to camp had some more beans followed by custard then slept like a baby.