Saturday 20 November 2010

The London year so far

Been pretty busy thus far, got out every weekend though so it's all good.

Brief summary:

1st week - Stanage - bouldered around on stuff. Eyed Big Air, a cool dyno route, and the aretes (Archangel and White wand). Played on brad pitt to see what v10 felt like. Hard. Be well cool to come up against something like that on a route.

2nd week - Stanage - tried to learn to jam, fell off the start of fern crack, the rest of it was pretty steady. Went to lawrencefield - top roped with the freshers on various stuff, quite liked the style, less rounded than natural grit. Thought about trying a new route to the right of Pool wall, up a cool looking crack, with a tree positioned nicely to bridge on/impale me. Then found out it might have been done before and then wasn't fancying it.

3rd week - Wales - got rained on, went to parisellas cave, was the most fun I've ever had bouldering, all the moves were pretty consistent, no one stopper move. Almost did some traverse. Then went dry tooling on some choss the next day.




4th week - Stanage - Boulderer about, tried tower face direct, did some twin jamming/offwidth crack route, jamming is getting better, Duncan lost one of my cams but gave me one of his in replacement. Got trapped on top of the deliverence boulder after climbing up in the dark and not being able to see the holds to get back down, had to ab off, using Duncan as a convienient anchor on the other side of the boulder.


A bit stanage centric, but life is great.

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