Beginning to not like this trip...good parts are the climbing; meeting local people in different 
places (e.g. yesterday, Simon, T and I wandered across a few hundred yards to some sort of ambulance station - by the main road. The place was a sort of single story semi-temporary building - we just tapped on the window to see if there was anyone in. (T had been across earlier in the day I think - but their shift had changed and so the current people there had no idea who we were or anything - very welcoming though) - we spent thirty minutes talking in very broken English). Weather is very good obviously, and above all I love the climbing. But then there are the bad things: in particular the Hot Rock organisation, or lack of it! Lack of food - it's not realistic to survive on a dollar a day - and I pay Hot Rock about $40 a day to be here! Lots of petty annoyances too - no bin bags for rubbish; as in most groups, some people do all the work...blah blah blah.
places (e.g. yesterday, Simon, T and I wandered across a few hundred yards to some sort of ambulance station - by the main road. The place was a sort of single story semi-temporary building - we just tapped on the window to see if there was anyone in. (T had been across earlier in the day I think - but their shift had changed and so the current people there had no idea who we were or anything - very welcoming though) - we spent thirty minutes talking in very broken English). Weather is very good obviously, and above all I love the climbing. But then there are the bad things: in particular the Hot Rock organisation, or lack of it! Lack of food - it's not realistic to survive on a dollar a day - and I pay Hot Rock about $40 a day to be here! Lots of petty annoyances too - no bin bags for rubbish; as in most groups, some people do all the work...blah blah blah.
Did a fantastic climb - up the centre of the crag: 5 pitches, the final pitch laybacking up an overhanging arete (moving left); then steep / overhanging climbing all the way to the top. Lots of bolts on the overhanging bits (old aid?). Given 5.10b. Called Kongereh Route. Climbed with Tia. This really is a fantastic crag - but I suspect not that special in terms of the rock available in Iran. Chatted to local Iranian climbers on into the evening - got one guy to write the route names down in my diary:
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