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Mt Warning. - Take the name literally. I didn't...

It's time to tell you guys what I've been up to! I know it's been a while since I blogged, there is a reason, though... Apart from being very busy, some filthy Russians decided it was a nice idea to exploit a security flaw in the blog script I use. They installed a Paypal scam on my server and started sending spam emails. I have their code and when I have time I might look further into their identity, i know a little already...

Anyway, I have been keen to climb Mt. Warning for ages. I climbed it a bit when I was younger and even ran the summit trail with another kid when I was doing cross-country running in primary school... So naturally, I grossly underestimated it's difficulty as an adult. I guess I assumed that since I've grown so much, the mountain had shrunk relative to me and would be a walk in the park. Anyway I convinced my friend Tracy to climb it with me. Tracy is my Girlfriend now, and an absolute sweetheart, I can't wait for you all to meet her. Some of you may already know Tracy because we've been friends since high school. The mountain was laughing at me the first 2km, I swear it. I could almost hear it saying 'I knew you'd be back, now it's my turn' as my legs filled with more acid than a B-double hauling Coca-Cola. The summit is 1156m above sea level, I'm not sure how far above sea level the base of the track is, but the 4.4km walk to the top is steep and very strenuous. I know after 500m Tracy had doubts about whether I could make the summit (she certainly seemed to be doing it easier than me...) and the same doubts crossed my mind about once very 10 steps. By halfway up we had found a bit of rhythm though, and before too long (although it seemed a torturously long time) we had made it to the final climb, a steep scramble up the final rockface to the summit. By the way, I swear the people coming down were cacking themselves, saying things like 'it's not far now' and 'almost there' when we were barely 2/3rds the way up! Talk about getting out hopes up! Anyway when we did finally make it to the summit (after 1h45mins, a pretty fast time) we had drunk almost all our water, but we were doing better than a group of 5 or so pommies who had about 100ml left between them! Tall peaks like Mt Warning attract cloud and on the day we climbed it, there was nothing to see but white, just like the edge of the earth scene from the movie "The Gods must be Crazy". This rendered our cameras useless, and means we will have to climb it again one day when the sky is clear and they install escalators.

We also wandered around Murwillumbah for a while, I showed Tracy my old schools, where the caravan park used to be (soccer fields now) and a wander thru the shopping centre.

It was a top day, followed by a wonderful few days kicking back enjoying Tracy's company. On Sunday we went to the beach and while I'm not a huge fan of the beach usually, it was awesome. I have felt heaps better ever since.

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