Friday night was the long awaited and prepared for final Greenland presentation, the last few weeks had been filled for many of us with e-mailing powerpoint slides backwards and forwards, writing words for what to say and hoping it would all go well. In the spirit of being ultra-prepared I wrote the final words of what I was going to say in the hours leading up to the presentation, before realizing that it was going to be dark in the room and I would have no chance of reading them! Managed ok though, made a few people laugh and said everything I wanted too. Everybody else was superb, especially Chris as the anchorman. Only over ran by half an hour which was pretty good by expedition standards!

Next day was the district climbing competition organized by Chris Phillips. Done at the pump house on dark lane it was a fantastic idea for an event and I think it went really well. Some really interesting routes set as well... by interesting I mean hard! Won the 16-18 years old section but was bested overall by a few points by David from Eclipse, turns out these competitions are not just about picking the hardest routes, its quite tactical! Managed to nail one of the spot prizes aswell for a few things - Calling Chris halfway up one of the routes and telling him it was a good competition, the crotch of my jeans exploding on a dyno and falling off one of the hardest routes in apparent 'committed style'. Superb day had by all, big respect to Chris for organizing it.

That evening I'd been invited to Dick's 60th party at his house, loitered down around 7/8ish to find a whole host of people. Many many scouty faces around. Chatted with Ray about life for a good hour or so about many things, mainly how much we'll all miss him when he finishes as ACC. Spent some time later in the evening reminiscing of Greenland with Phil, Julie and Ash before him and Danny broke out the guitars. I can't describe how much whiskey there was, I would guess well more than a bottle per person on the premisiss! Loitered home about 3.30AM to crash into bed and wake up around 2pm today. Superb evening.