RRRPPP

Today was RRRPPP. Can you remember that? It'll be explained as the post goes along. The day started off nice. Thank you, day! Sean gets his first lead-climb on a sport route on the Crow's Nest Cliff. We also climb a bunch of other routes on that cliff, nearly climbing them all!But then Relentless Rumney Rain (RRR) strikes. We look at our guidebook. Pawtuckaway State Park in Nottingham, NH is only two hours away and houses a ton of boulders. Even though there are flash-flood warnings for Rumney and near-equal forecasts for everywhere in the northeast, we have had enough wetness and hit the road. Pawtuckaway starts out very confusing. That is to say, the labels within the park are close to none and the roads all look alike: dirty, bumpy, you-had-better-swerve-that-car-ey. Plus, when we get to Pawtuckaway, excited as we are to see boulders and tons of them, it is drizzling. As we look out on gorgeous Round Pond, that fact is in the back of our minds. Check out the view from atop a smaller boulder:
Here's a panorama of another part of the pond:
and, to top it off, here's a nice panorama of Sean atop a boulder on the right, with the pond and its islands and muckiness and boulders spread out before him:
Exhausted after climbing, driving, and hiking in Pawtuckaway, we decide the following: wet boulders in the forest will not dry even if it is sunny the next day. Thus, our time in Pawtuckaway would be better spent in Rumney. This means that we should go back because even in rainy Rumney we can find something dry, even if it is not the exact climb we would wish upon a star for. And trust me, we wished.

First, though, the two brothers hit the local pizza shop, immediately adjacent to the police station. We do not have to worry about being robbed here. We order a pizza. It tastes good. And, they give us a remote control. And, the remote controls gives us the power to change the channel and volume on a large screen television. And, we are the only ones there. Our pizza comes out and we watch Die Hard as we eat!

So today, Sunday Day 3, was RRRPPP: Relentless Rumney Rain, & Pawtuckaway Panoramas'n'Pizzas.

"buRRRPPP" Says your landescaper, n8!