061030 - 6a+, La Ola, ARG

After an hour rest on the sofa Martin, the tour guide, rang the bell at 6:30am... Time to go. I felt like being smacked by a train. But hell... Time to go. We took a taxi to the bus station. And found out that the bus had already left. So he had to come up with another option --- and instead of going to Los Gigantes we went to La Ola. About the same distance from Cordoba but on the other side of the Sierras. I didn't get to see much of the scenery as I was knocked out by my sleep deficit.
We got there around 11:30am and set up the camp before heading out for some climbing. As I am a Rookie in this game I didn't expect to do much. Just wanted to go out there and have some fun. It was a beautiful day and after some nice climbs we headed back to the camp around 5pm. Flattened from climbing, lacking sleep and worn out by the sun I pretty much sank to the ground and started sleeping.
As night set in all I did was move from the stone I had been sleeping on into the tent. But all of a sudden a terrible storm arose out of nothing. It started raining cats and dogs. I tried to get away from the noise by plugging my ears. ;o) But then.. what was that?!? Why was my sleeping bag wet? *autsch* I was sleeping in the middle of a little lake that had built up inside the tent. There was only one option: pack up everything and move to the refugio. Ahh.. what a relief. A nice and warm, cozy place. I knocked out right after sitting down on the matress... and didn't wake up until 10am the next morning.
The whole day was kinda shitty. No sunshine, overcasted. But we made a few climbs and near the end of the day we met a bunch of guys from Cordoba who had come here just for the day. They were very good climbers. And a heck of fun to hang out with.
On the last day, the sun was just throwing heat balls down -- and I had no sun protection -- we climbed till 2pm before heading back to Cordoba. All in all it was some really nice days. Heck... this sounds so borring!!!