swiss day one

After an eventful drive we arrived in Switzerland, to our supper cool swiss house. We made plans to head to the local bouldering area for the first day Cresciano, we rocked up the hill to finally find the sectors and instantly everyone was running about looking at cool problems. Once everyone was warmed up Steve found a good looking problem called XP f7c. Me, Steve and Dan had a go once finding the beta we all managed to pull our way through. We then headed to sector 5 to try some fun slabs with a classic problem called never ending story a hold less slab that starts with a step up mantle and lots of giggles.

We had a quick go at franks wild years f8a+ but after sore tips and tired arms not much got done so headed home for food and sleep,

Rest day today and lucky enough its raining so nothing lost

SwiZZy

With just under a week to go until my trip to Switzerland I'm not feeling to good with another cold on its way the next few days will involve running and swimming trying to get it out of my systems.

All I have been doing is watching YouTube clips getting more and more psyched about the place.
fingers crossed all goes well and I'm able to crank on some hard problems.

PSYCHED!!!

Special K Video

Here is a vid from the awsome weekend of Special K in Crafnant

Video Kieran King

Wales Weekend

After a day at Crafnant we headed to Nesscliffe, the sand stone crag of Shropshire. We arrived and warmed up on some cool face climbs, given that Ive not done much on sandstone I was surprised on how I done. With most of these climbs being more about balance than power which is not me at all.

We headed up to the upper tier for Kieran and Mikey to try some of the harder lines. They managed to tick off most of the crag with only one or two lines left.

Here is some pics from the weekend. super psyched to get back up to wales for some more sending also it has opend my eyes on whats to come down south with some potently first ascents.

!!!PSYCHED!!!

 

Photo's Kieran King

 

Crafnant

Im currently in wales for the weekend to check out some of the bouldering it has to offer, not know to much about the area i headed up with drew who knows a few locals. We met up with a local Kieran King and mikey and then headed up to Crafnant.

With a 1hour drive we arrived at the car park and could see the boulders bathing in the blue skys and big sun. I dint really know what to exspect as i hadnt really been bouldering any were than the cuttings. We hiked up all super pysched and rocked up under some cool warm ups. After getting the tips warmed up we headed up to the Wonder wall boulder. We did a font 6b lip travers and for me i strugled like hell to top it out but managed to do it first go and was thinking crap im not going to do well.

Then did a font 6c and did it first go and then i felt solid and just started to go through the list of climbs.

After a long day heading into the dark i had my best performance ever with a ticklist that had a 7c+!! in it, PYSCHED !!!!!!!

Tomorrow we are heading nesclife to check the sand stone out woop woop


Pics and video to follow soon