Just got down from climbing the Zodiac the day before yesterday, it was amazing, took 2 1/2 days which was much faster than we expected. Fixed first 4 pitches had a rest day then got up at 4am and jugged up our fixed lines. that day we climbed 5 pitches to below the nipple pitch. the climbing was never that hard a bit tricky in places.
Neil had the black tower pitch which could prove to be nasty if you took a fall as you would land on the tower and then roll off if.

The hauling was hard as well as the bag weighed about 50 kilos. That night was swett set the porta ledge up and chilled out listening to music and taking in the amazing views.

The next morning took forever to get sorted out then i set off on the Nipple pitch which was amazing lots of inverted cam hook moves in a row, as it said in the topo "wild" and it was.

All went well from there we spent another nyt on peanut ledge and toped out in the afternoon the next day, a bear was at the top to greet me which was nice.

we where very very smelly.

We did the Zodiac in the hope that it would give us and idea of what the Shield would be like, in a sense it was a training climb. Altho we knew it would be a step up in Aid we where confindent we could climb it.

Neil cleaning the Nipple pitch.

At the Top. Just after i was greeted by a bear.