Bishop

Grindelwald
Friday, August 14, 1998

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Hey guys, this is Brent checking in again... well... it's been, it's good to be here over in Switzerland. The weather is still kind of moody, clouds are coming in and out. It rained last night and it's really warm which means that stuff isn't freezing at night on the Eiger so when you look up at it, there are a bunch of waterfalls on it coming down off the White Spider and the Second Snowfield. So, we're going to go up and look, we're going to camp at the base I think, go up tomorrow and camp tomorrow night and look at it and just see how much stuff is actually falling off the face and see if we're actually going to get on it or not, and see what the temperature is doing.

Also, we went crag climbing here outside of Grindelwald at a place called Hintersberg, a small little cliff, it was 750 feet of limestone. You could do 5.6 pitch routes, anywhere from 5.9 to 5.12+. It's amazing how user friendly it is, all bolts and anchors, you could roll on this stuff. We had a great time today while we tried to get over the jetlag. So good day, moody weather and off we go to the base of the Eiger to see what's raining down off of it and hopefully it won't be a whole lot, the weather will get a little colder so that things freeze up. Anyway, we're having fun over here and that's it so take care and I'll be in touch. Bye.

— Brent Bishop, Mountain Zone Contributor

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