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This crag illustrates the dangers of letting two under-employed local near-pensioners loose with a drill. Until this frenzied burst of choss removal and drilling the only noteworthy route on the crag was Ray's "Out with the Missus" although there were rumours of other developments. The archeological diggings did reveal hints of homo climberus activities but no clay tablets designating the routes were unearthed, so until proved otherwise, this will have to stand as the definitive document. All of the climbs are bolt protected and equipped with double bolt anchors.

Having just recovered from a palm sweating gmail chat session with NZ's dynamic climbing duo Max and Mayan (who are in California) we can report the following:

They have just completed the route Freerider on El Capitan.

It was hard.

They attempted to climb it all free in a single push and did extremely well, coming close to achieving this goal.

It was really hard.

Not content to rest on his laurels after his recently reported ascent of Achilles Last Stand (V12), Stu Kurth has kept the dream alive by also repeating Captain Sassy Pants Direct (V11/12) at Flock Hill the other day.

So far this report begs two immediate questions:

1. Will the Beast Kong ever be tamed?

and

2. What is a laurel exactly?

According to answers.com a laurel is:

A Mediterranean evergreen tree (Laurus nobilis) having aromatic, simple leaves and small blackish berries.