Still reminiscing on the lost Waterworld base. We move one route over and take a look at Gosia’s impressive send of Firestarter (29/7c+), back in 2013.
If you know Gosia, you’ll understand this is possibly the shortest person beta you’ll see for this route. Note the left thumb beta she incorporates on the low hard move at around 0:40.
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On the subject of the Waterworld base.
If someone wants to get a work party together, around 20+ people, half of them with spades, lots of sand bags and the willingness to put some work in, I’d be happy to share with you what does and doesn’t work on building a base at Waterworld (or just see how in the pictures below 😉
FYI: There is a still a 2 ton gabion buried at the base of Arendsig !
Justin
Steve Bradshaw on Firestarter (30) at Waterworld – without a dry base this crag is not climbable
The base of Waterworld before it was destroyed in the flood – the base needs to be re-made using a digger.
The Weed Wacker !
Women and children helping out 🙂
Stone chain gang
A colourful explanation of what we did.
The Sandbag wall re-directing the river
The sandbag gang
The river re-directing walls
The team laying sandbags to divert the river above Waterworld in Bad Kloof, Montagu
Photo Peter Sinovich
Waterworld living up to its name.
Waterworld base. Flooded as per usual and in the same usual way. Keep in mind that there 2x 2 ton gabions under the sand there somewhere.
Path Erosion along the path in Bad Kloof
The 5 sandbags at the base of Arendsig at Waterworld
Sand bags making the first line of defence above Waterworld
Justin with the Bush Cutter in Bad Kloof
Angie Eiter on ‘My Route Down By the River’ (31/8a+) in Waterworld, Bad Kloof
