[Yossarian]

Any good suggestions for a 6ft3 technical dunce with zero strength and a bit of a twitch?

That description sounds eerily familiar, so absolutely anything I've ever done would fit the bill.  Beware though, I suspect that if we ever met and climbed the same problems the space-time continuum would rupture in an explosion of gamma rays, positrons and super-chalk.

Yeah, we need to get a couple of very talented and strong midgets along for the ride, just to even things out a bit...

[Jim]

Aim for this year is:

to climb 7c consistently
go to the dentist
loose weight without compromising my ale consumption
win more than £1 million on the lottery

not too much to ask

[Stubbs]

more nebulous than problem/route specific for me:

- an 8A/V11 (either bloc or long problem - I ain't fussy for the first one!)
- enjoy sport climbing in the UK
- go on a sport climbing trip for the first time
- not go the Font
- be regimented with fingerboarding (i.e write down a schedule and goals and stick to it)
- have fun in Bishop

[tommytwotone]

Climbing aims:

Main one is to not get injured, as I was for the pretty much the last half of '08 - if so...
Boulder Font 7b
Trad E5

Non climbing:

Avoid getting the chop in the round of redundancies that are currently going off at my work
Get finances under control
Run more
Get some core strength

Just thought of a couple of others...

I'll shamelessly take Mr Popp's 'genuine reason to post in YYFY', and on top of that, a couple of non-climbing aims:

Run 20 miles a week
11k+ powerball

[SA Chris]

go to the dentist

Having broken a tooth on the 29th, my first thing to do on Monday is call the dentist, so I can tick that. Great.

[Bubba]

This has been the first winter for what must be about seven or eight years that I've not been plunged back into the dark pit of depression. This is a good sign and I'm hoping that 2009 will allow me to carry on with my life which has been on hold for so long because of the ruining effects of the disease.

If things continue positively then i'll say:

- stop drinking for at least a month, maybe more.
- stop smoking the 'erb for at least a month, maybe more.
- lose weight.
- if "lose weight" works well enough, start bouldering again, I miss it.
- get fit for mtb...goes hand in hand with "lose weight".
- ride "Matador" at Inners in good style.
- play less videogames / do less trivial web surfing.
- sort the ukb shop and other web projects.
- end the year with a fucking big log-pile; enough to keep me and Ms Bubbs and the cat warm through to 2010.
- learn to deal with the "jet lag" of shift work and live around it successfully.
- cook more healthy food and eat less crap.
- sort out the garage.
- do some more work on Ms Bubbs on the subject of getting a puppy.
- go on a nice holiday somewhere.
- that'll do for now

[Yossarian]

I'm up for Innerleithen!

And the oft talked about Caersws uplift.

And Cwmcarn.  Dates anyone?

[Johnny Brown]

1. Climb remaining E2-4 routes in Lleyn section of North Wales Rock before spring.

Give us a tip-off if you do, trying to get enough photos for an article together. Can't offer accomodation til after easter tho I'm afraid...

My aims:

1. Get to the Bugaboos, or similar amazing alpine rock venue where topping out means topping fucking out.
2. Do some surfing, learn to turn
3. Take at least one photo that earns me five stars in Lightroom.

[The Sausage]

- more big trad e6s (skinhead, dreams and screams, jub-jub, king wad, MSND, lots in pembroke, more in ireland etc)

King Wad is piss, not even E5, but very good. Don't know what you've done but good (softish) N.Wales E6s are Bog of the Eternal Stench, Lord (obviously), them up that red wall in bum hole (over the beach?), schittlegruber, and pistolero on cloggy - gets E5 in the guide, but I thought it was safe but desperate. Needless to say, there are millions more.

-- solo caveman then have the balls to jump off after the traverse pitch

Not sure that sounds like a great idea, plus topping out into brambles is half the fun. Plus the lip trip pitch is amazing, but would be very scary to jump off after that...

oh, and decide what I want to do with my life.

over-rated too...

[Andy F]

Routes: Conehead, Overnite, Grooved Arete.
Bouldering - do some more and improve on my current meagre standards.

[erm, sam]

Right:

-Not get injured
-Become able to have a conversation in Dutch.
-Find a pal (I do have pals, just not many in the current locale)
-Do a couple of sprint triathlons
-Go to a climbing wall occasionally
-Go on 3 bouldering missions ,Font or elsewhere (alas a mission for me these days is another word for a weekend)
-Go surfing
-Red circuit somewhere in Font, Gorge Du Chats?
-7a twice in one trip somewhere in Font - dynos not included.

Nothing too ambitious there except the dutch bit.... Hmmm

[chillax]

Bouldering:Climb every Glendalough problem in the 6's
            - Figure out what Glendo 7a is and climb it
            - Go back to Font and do Helicopter and some other stuff I came close to last time
            - Go to a foreign Granite destination

Trad:Onsight E3 and ground-up E4 in Dalkey
      - Toprope an E7 and my quarry project clean
      - Visit more mountain crags
      - Get to Fair Head

Basically get out of the bubble I currently do all my climbing in

[Jaspersharpe]

1. Train properly for a change.
2. Finally address arm weakness (see 1).
3. Finish off the sitter to The Pinch at Crag X.
4. Climb 7C in Font (preferably Hotline) weather permitting (will probably only get a week there).
5. Go to The County.
6. Get out more.
7. Play Hard.
8. Great White.
9. Go to the Orme and climb on The Box.
10. Climb 8A (this is probably subject to 1 & 2 and definitely 6).

[dave]

6. Get out more.
7. Play Hard.

number 7 definitely validates the presence of 6 on your list. 

[GCW]

Is that with or without the crack?

[Jaspersharpe]

number 7 definitely validates the presence of 6 on your list. 

I know I know. It's just that since I got the decent hold on the top and ballsed it up I've not been back so it needs finishing off!  

Is that with or without the crack?

You know I aint using no crack mofo.

[GCW]

I was back there yesterday for the first time in years and the slopers felt a lot worse (more polished) than I remember.  Maybe it's just my defective memory though.

[SA Chris]

I was back there yesterday for the first time in years and the slopers felt a lot worse (more polished) than I remember.  Maybe it's just my defective memory though.

And nothing to do with defective strength?

[GCW]

Strength isn't the main issue, No 1 is the defective slimness.
[No 2= lack of technique]

[Jaspersharpe]

It's extremely conditions dependent. Oh and if you're a fat cunt then that probably wont help either.

[GCW]

Yeah, I'm certianly a fatter cunt than I was years ago

[The Sausage]

Using the crack or not makes no odds on play hard. if you're struggling with the first move, give up and come back when you've got half a chance of doing the top.

[dave]

it only makes odds as far as you want to be on playhard and not just a bad sequence on a 5b crack. on a more important note, the sitter is a glaring ommision which is up for grabs, if anyone is quick they might be able to bag it before percy. get to it fellas.

[GCW]

8. Beachball (Secret Garden)- Ticked the stupid, stupid, bastard problem.

And here's a video, but the best bit is the second half

[Iesu]

My aims for 2009 and beyond

non-climbing:
1. strike perfect balance between riding to work (>fatigue) and training (<psyche)
2. strike perfect balance between mates and the missus
3. strike perfect balance between incomings and outgoings (financial)
4. strike perfect work vs life balance
5. strike perfect relatives/old friend visiting balance
6. be a good earth citizen and decent better human being (7 lashes with the cat for a trip to CA)
7. swear less

climbing:
1. have fun and enjoy the journey, not just the destination
2. Pope's Prow, Green Wall, Fly Boy, Bard/Leary Arete LH, Saigon, Soulslinger (?), Jedi Mind Tricks (choked), Iron Man (weak) - Buttermilks
3. get highballing and learn how to top out again (the above list should help me with these)
4. Blockbuster, New Jerusalem, Secret Seventh, Crystal Meth, Ben's Groove (?) - Caley Roadside
5. Banana Split, Back Stabber SS, Pedestal Arete, Chicken Run, Creme Egg Eliminate - Caley Crag
6. Almscliffe (the whole crag)