Ropes not needed

After hearing about our buddy Tom's adventure of deep water soloing, we knew we had to give it a try while in Railay. The combination of climbing with no ropes on karst mountains in the middle of the ocean was too good to pass up. We signed up the night before with a few other folks, nervously chatting about what awaited us in the morning. Once it was time to pile into our boat, everyone was a bit on edge with excitement. On top of all the built up energy, it was also one of the roughest days any of us had experienced on the sea. We were all drenched from head to toe within the first few minutes on the boat.

Once we reached our destination, our guide set out to get our rope set up by kayak. After a half hour attempting with no success we moved around the mountain in hope of another starting point. Finally after many more failed attempts, he got our ladder attached and we were sent out in kayaks. Unfortanetly, not only was the sea against us on this day so was our starting point. We were set back into a small cave and had to work our way out of it before we could even begin to climb the challenging wall. I got to climb the wall twice and Cassie only once before a major storm approached, and forced us to swim back to our boat exhasted as we fought the current, waves, and rain.

I would love to say that this was as amazing as it sounds but unfortunately our experience sort of sucked. Even more dissapointing was when I saw pictures from my buddy's day on the rocks; he was able to climb and jump into the ocean over 30 times. Oh well, not much you can do when rough seas and a storm get in the way of your fun.