[GCW]

After recurrent failures for the last x years, it's time to change tack!

1. Finish my Red Wall Link Up Project
2. Boulder 7c. I think the Red Wall project will be this grade, so that is excluded.  It'd be nice to do a 7C that doesn't instantly get downgraded too.
3. Get a house that I can build a woody in
4. Build a woody, and more crucially, use it
5. Tick two problems from the last few years Aims For lists
6. Run a marathon
7. Go to Font
8. Do at least ten Munros and ten Wainwrights
9. Stop drinking and get fit
10. Read ten more books from the BBC Big Read top 100

A few off topic and vague, but hopefully I'll be more psyched to tick a few of these off in 2012.

[nik at work]

Go G, this year the SYKE will be high. Strangely you forgot your trad and sport targets

Might as well do some for me:
1) Carry on climbing despite arrival of child number two on Boxing Day (likely)
2) Sport 8b+ (possible)
3) A decent glob of trad E5+, not all on grit, not all single pitch! (possible time allowing...)
4) Stick to my training....  (I've never managed this in the past)
5) To allow me to go big towards the end of summer. (pie in the sky)

These are definitely in order of increasing unlikeliness...

For the first time in years I have no bouldering aspirations.

[GCW]

11.  Remember to avoid sport and trad like the plague, despite what the Bearded One may say.

[Yossarian]

In order...

Dust off my rack. Retrieve rope from its current employment holding up a eucalyptus tree.

Get back up to speed on the sandstone, then climb some harder things that I haven't done before - The Thing, Temptation, Krait Arete, Second Generation perhaps

Some decent UK trad - Peak, Wales and Cornwall - would be nice to onsight something(s) around E4 - E5

Trip to Red Rocks in the autumn maybe - multi pitch, classic trad, maybe some hard (for me) sport routes- maybe a 5.13a?

Ride some more Alpine / Italian passes - Izoard, Iseran, Stelvio, Gavia, Mortirolo, Madonna del Ghisallo, maybe get a decent time on Ventoux (1hr30 from Bedoin?)

That's all the easy stuff.

Then, launch new business, get married, get a decent suit made, teach Sibylla how to ride a bicycle, try not to be such an irascible easily irritated grouch, particularly in the company of uncivilised bogan fuckheads.

[leeroy]

a proper e8 on grit (potds doesnt count after the varian-pasquill intervention  )
boulder more font 7c's on grit (and lime, maybe)
sport 8a/+ (chimes or something foreign, again big maybe)

[duncan]

Maintain 9 out of 12 months active climbing.

A couple of things from the Fairly Long, Moderately Hard and Mostly Free thread.

Take sport climbing a little more seriously and get up something harder than my hardest onsight (ie a 7b or 7b+).
Similarly bouldering at 6C/V5.

Most of the above is a means to an end, which is to onsight E5.

[James Malloch]

Boulder 7a.
Onsight 7a Sport.
Get on Peak Limestone now I have a car.
Do some training.
Avoid Gritstone trad where possible!

[chris j]

Don't sell your self short!
The worst that can happen is you don't finish...

Don't worry, no selling myself short, I'll be getting on Threadbare and the Lynch anyway (had Threadbare in two sections last May), just looking for some extra hopefully easier ticks in addition.

[JacobJacob]

1. Climb 8a+ in England
2. Climb 8b in England
3. Climb two 8b s one power endurance based and one stamina based
4. Onsight 8a
5. Boulder 7C+ (before Bojan, and dynos don't count)
6. Boulder 7C on the Lime
7. Go trad climbing more
8. Onsight some more E6s including some long ones.

Get on: The Medium, The Quarryman groove (if you don't try you'll never know...), The Black Bean (Ceuse), Psycho, Skinhead Moonstomp and Ghost Train

Get Back on: Silk and Spring Voyage

Go to: Cloggy

[Muenchener]

7. Go trad climbing more
8. Onsight some more E6s including some long ones.

Get on: ... The Black Bean (Ceuse)

Is this part of the trad climbing? Might be hard for E6.

[Joe]

4. Onsight 8a

Congratulations on the recent 8a flash!

[Loz!]

My aims for 2012:
1) Boulder harder than V7 (ideally V9 by this time next year, but probably way too ambitious, so V8 will do)
2)Tick loads of clssic V5-V7's in Uk, Font and Swiss!
3)Be able to do more than 3 pull ups (dire, I know)
4)Finally get the sitter to Johnny's problem on Cromlech done (evasive little bastard that top move is!)
5)oh yeah and pass 4th year (afterthought) 

I'd be happy with this lot!

[fried]

First the holidays have already been planned-

1. Week in peak end of May
2. Week in Font end of July (plus all the other weekend trips)
3. 1 month in Turkey should get a fair bit of time in Bafa Golu (if anyone has any info and it hasn't been bought by developers).

Continue exploring new places in Font (more of Coquibus, gorge de Houx....)

Get a few more 6As in the forest (meilleur des mondes - Bois Rond is one on the list) and try not to get shut down on so many 4C-5C problems.

6B indoors.

Mostly just stay uninjured (ish).

7A by 50.

[JacobJacob]

7. Go trad climbing more
8. Onsight some more E6s including some long ones.

Get on: ... The Black Bean (Ceuse)

Is this part of the trad climbing? Might be hard for E6.

hmmm, I might leave that one for 2013... 

[GazM]

Scottish based aims for me in 2012. 
Trad:
Consolidate at E3 and get on more E4s - especially The Harp and Haystack on Shelterstone, and finally get round to doing Steeple.  More mountain routes and more trips to the NW Highlands.
Perhaps an esoteric/inspiring/amusing headpoint project - Jules Lines' new 10m E6 on the summit tor of a remote Cairngorm top? 

Sport:
Redpoint another 7b - Giza Break during the summer Camel season?
Redpoint Primo 7b+ at Am Fasgadh
Autumn spain trip

Boulders:
Malc's Arete and The Mission, Torridon
Take a look at DanV's slab at Sheildaig
Mop up the remaining problems at Laggan.

General: At least one trip to the grit, one trip to Wales and a trip to the Western Isles.

[cheque]

Grades-wise the same as last year: Trad E2, Sport 7a, Boulder 7a. I reckon I have a very good chance of meeting or even exceeding the trad and sport ones and bouldering should be feasible too if I put the effort in.

Find less punterish, more psyched, more reliable partners.

Move to Sheffield or other location with similar proximity of rock and population of climbers. Unlikely considering the current job market and the fact I have a good job right where I live now but would be ace and make the above aims easy.

Stretch every day and keep a training diary in order to maintain recent levels of training psyche without injury.

At least one foreign trp and as many domestic ones as possible.

[fuzzface93]

Calling it here, so i gotta do it this year, or i loose internet points... and that's just not the done thing!

Boulder:

First 8A
First 8A+
7C on grit
7C+ in a sesion

Sport:

do 8a
Onsight 7a

Trad:

Highball E5 +
Do something that makes me cry.

Life:
Help develop local climbing scene
Be more helpfull
Try my hardest to genuinely be a nice guy.

To those of you who manage at least 1 of your goals 

[dunnyg]

Last years aims got done, so going to make these ones harder....

1. Onsight a proper (ie not grit) E2
2. Onisght a grit (or any) E3
3. Ground up E4
3.5 headpoint summat hard - E6?
4. Boulder lots more 7B's and some 7B+
5. Get a couple more 7C's done
6. Climb outside more, in all weathers
7. Go to some propper (ie multipitch) cliffs
8. Get some good snowy stuff done in the alps and some decent water ice - tho maybe the year after...
9. Get a 2.1/1st
10. Just climb shit loads
11. Do some 'orrible aid/trad combos
12. Develop local crags that no one can ever be arsed with.
13. Climb inside less!



Game. Fucking. On. ambitous? fuck yeah

[lagerstarfish]

pretty much the same as the last 15 years

boulder 7C

boulder with other people

and a new one - film other people and feel OK about editing footage of their efforts

Also,

get my gamma-GT levels to be lower than my IQ

[Will Hunt]

Last years aims got done, so going to make these ones harder....

3.5 headpoint summat hard - E6?
6. Climb outside more, in all weathers
10. Just climb shit loads
11. Do some 'orrible aid/trad combos
12. Develop local crags that no one can ever be arsed with.

I think its cheating to set goals that you've already achieved, Huw 

Let's also add:
14. Being in London less when my mates call me up to go climbing.

[Stabbsy]

1. Go climbing somewhere other than Kilnsey.
2. Redpoint F8a again (not sure if this is incompatible with the first one).
3. Onsight F7b+ in the UK.
4. Onsight a few more Euro F7cs.
5. More trad trips to the Lakes/Wales/South West/Scotland.
6. Onsight E6 (been climbing E5 for 10+ years, so at least trying one would be a good start).
7. Boulder 7C on the grit.

To be honest, ticking off half of those would be great year.....

[lukeyboy]

Think it might be realistic to include 2 of the 3 lifetime goals this year (exciting!!!) - sport 8a & onsight E5 (font 8a is a way off still...)

Would be over the moon if these go down.

Also would like to:

- Climb on grit more
- Get to pembroke more often
- Get to Berry Head and finish off Rainbow Bridge
- Successfully slay elbow tendonitis in the next month ahead of Font in Feb
- Crush in Font
- Boulder 7B or harder at some point in the year
- Train power

A few on the wishlist:

Mau mau, strapadictomy, traveller in time, smear test, ascent of man, vector, german schoolgirl, arms race, swan, elegy

Rubis sur l'ongle, noir desir, el poussif, hyper plomb, deliverance, sulky little boys

[dunnyg]

Havent done an E6- the masses recon its a 5. As for shit crags, well I've got some even shitter ones. Going to get warb keen... Havent been climbing shit loads for the last month

As for grim aid -trad combos......

fancy a trip do gordale for some E1-A3 action? Will have to wait untill sunnier times tho.

Sorry I havent been around. Not goin down anytime sooon, so we can b 2geva x 

[Nibile]

general:
- stay injury free
- train properly
- get really strong
- climb more at new places
- keep this fucking faith despite everything
specific:
- top out my project
- Font 8b away from home
- sport 8c
non climbing:
- become a better teacher
- enjoy teaching even more
- the rest I can't tell...

[Dr T]

- get really strong

  thought you were already the Beast Daddy...