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#150 Re: Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 11:11:05 am
No.1 and most important: no injuries, strains, ruptures, mutilations, impairments or afflictions or any kind.
2: keep working on shoulder stability to help with no1, not sure how to benchmark this yet
3. 7C. Setting the bar high but I think it just might be attainable.
4. Get two trips abroad this year. Font in Feb so shouldn't be too hard to squeeze one in in the summer.
5. do some trad in the summer, get on something in Fairhead that I find intimidating (ie most things)
6. Either get a real job or phd funding.

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#151 Re: Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 11:56:05 am
Never drink again....
Till tomorrow?

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#152 Re: Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 12:38:01 pm

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#153 Re: Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 12:51:38 pm
hows the back?

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#154 Re: Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 12:58:40 pm
hows the back?

Starting to ease up a bit thanks....
still a long way from fine, but getting a little better every day. Today it feels great (relatively) - I suspect spending all of yesterday lying in bed occasionally being sick helped rest it.. :D (though retching was quite painfull!)

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#155 Re: Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 08:25:23 pm
Trad: Resurrection, Right wall (again!), Headhunter, Positron

Sport: Arch Enemies, Energie Positiva and Call of Nature

Bouldering: try hard and often for once!

Big: complete a long, moderately hard and reasonably free ascent on the Naranjo Del Bulnes lumps

Other: decorate and furnish house/have a moving in party, make a fictional climbing film.


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#156 Re: Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 09:53:15 pm
make a fictional climbing film.

Barrows as Ziggy Stardust
Rich Simpson in a remake of "Catch me if you can"
Doyle and Dense in Brokeback Mountain

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#157 Re: Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 10:08:38 pm
Fear and Loathing in Llanberis?

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#158 Re: Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 10:09:26 pm
Like them.


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#159 Re: Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 10:20:23 pm
Doylo does Dense?

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#160 Re: Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 10:24:13 pm
Oak Dreams

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#161 Re: Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 10:26:35 pm
on a more serious note about dreams - interviewing people about their one-armer dreams could be interesting

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#162 Aims for 2015
January 02, 2015, 10:34:41 pm
For about 5 seconds.... ;)

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#163 Re: Aims for 2015
January 03, 2015, 08:01:19 pm
1. Be trading online this year and hit business plan projections.

2. The Jura fell race during Islay whisky festival week already booked on to.

3. Start climbing again and fix back-related issues it induces!

4. Win the Islay festival nosing competition. Missed out by one dram last year!

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#164 Re: Aims for 2015
January 03, 2015, 08:06:41 pm
1. Make 7C the new 7B
2. Stu's roof at Almscliff

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#165 Re: Aims for 2015
January 07, 2015, 09:32:52 am
Get some really esoteric niche research published

Multi pitch multi day aid soloing

Become capable of surfing on the non-frothy bit of a wave

Keep making steps towards being a gnarly ski mountaineer. 1) Ski touring 2) Try winter climbing!

Suffer. Aspire to gnarliness.

F8a on trad gear

More cleaning/new routing - learn to bolt.

Siege a sport route successfully, ideally at Ansteys or Shipwreck.

Try some things off the bucket list - Quarryman, Point Blank, From Dusk Til Dawn, Infinite Gravity, Totally Free II, Tom et Je Ris, La Piton, Loskot & Two Smoking Barrels, Poema de Roca (to the top), Tabou Zizi, Magic Carpet Ride would all qualify.

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#166 Re: Aims for 2015
January 07, 2015, 10:08:42 am
Is that the Magic Carpet Ride that I think it is??? I'm def keen for La Piton this Autumn!

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#167 Re: Aims for 2015
January 07, 2015, 10:37:26 am
Of course - I wondered if you'd spot that!  ;D

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#168 Re: Aims for 2015
January 07, 2015, 10:40:22 am
1.  Finish one of the harder (for me) sport routes I have tried.  Fisheye or Indian Summer.
2.  Flash/onsight 8a.
3.  Onsight at least one E6 (something at Pembroke) and try and flash an E7 (maybe Vapour Trail at Swanage).
4.  Climb at Anstey's Cove.
5.  Finish one of my bogey 8a's (Masterclass, Statement or Powerplant).
6.  Move to Spain.

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#169 Re: Aims for 2015
February 23, 2015, 12:06:33 pm

6. Onsight at least 7a+ in Chulilla in feb. Onsighted 7b
7. Do a 7b+ in Chulilla Didn't try anything harder than 7b

Had a great week in Chulilla and was really pleased to onsight a 7b (my hardest onsight yet, previous was 7a), particularly as I have had a shoulder injury all way the from mid november until a few days before I set off. The injury hasn't always prevented me from climbing, but it certainly prevented me from training.

Re: 7b+ aim... in hindsight this wasn't really one of my aims when I set off on the trip. I went with my girlfriend who is a great climber but not super psyched for going out and trying big numbers. This, coupled with this being my first trip to Chulilla and first foreign sport climbing trip, meant that we wanted to try lots of different sectors and routes rather than redpointing anything. This was great as we got to experience a lot of the area and some really great routes, and as well as my 7b I onsighted 5 7as.

I feel like I'm definitely on course for my aim of a sport 7c this year!

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#170 Re: Aims for 2015
March 15, 2015, 01:44:17 pm
Font 8a
French 8a
Bolt and FA a very good and >7a sport climb   Bolted and climbed my first sport FA at 6c
Put up a new cool hard-ish boulder problem/find and develop new cragFA of what is probably my hardest problem yet. Two move wonder, and I'm still wondering how I did it
SE Asia climbing trip Might go to Mallorca instead
Get this year's work published

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#171 Re: Aims for 2015
May 21, 2015, 12:14:54 am
Finished the goal for 2014/2015 and finally did Louis Armstrong in God's own cave  :pissed:

Time to up the sport grade from 7b+/c and maybe an E3  :ohmy:

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#172 Re: Aims for 2015
May 21, 2015, 02:18:49 am
One arm the incut edge on BM 2000.
Proper v10 on the board or outside.
Boulder open A finals for my state
Not wreck myself

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#173 Re: Aims for 2015
May 31, 2015, 06:24:53 pm

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#174 Re: Aims for 2015
June 20, 2015, 08:51:22 am
Half time result: basically fuck all.  :'( A very frustrating six months; in addition to  family commitments I had a couple of not directly climbing related injuries. And on the weekends when I was uninjured and free, and had plans to go climbing, it rained. E.g. today.

Training wise I feel like I'm getting somewhere, and have been moving well and feeling strong indoors. Just need to keep the faith that at some point I will be able to convert this into actual results on actual rock.

1. (as per last year) Alpine / trad trips to any two or more of: Dolomites, Oberreintal, elsewhere in Alps e.g. Ecrins, UK trad excursion. Not yet. Oberreintal & UK trad planned for August, weather permitting.

2. Sport climbing: redpoint 7b Tried one, it was heinous. Realistically, though, I could do one if I found one locally I was willing to siege. Have done both of my 7a redpoints in a half a dozen goes. But I prefer to stick to things I can do in a day or two. So many great crags and routes, don't want to spend all my limited time going to the same place.

Fuck it: Sautanz. Maybe 2016.  :lol: Maybe this decade. Not looking good at the moment.


3. Sport climbing: place in the top fifty old codgers in Germany per 8a.nu routes ranking. #63

4. Do a muscle-up. Abandoned training towards this when I bruised my ribs in February. Might resume in the Autumn.

The road to Sautanz.
6c+
Schöne Aussicht. A minor classic and somewhat Sautanz-Lite (very lite): circa vertical, techy, cruxy. I've been on it twice already, should get it next visit.
Katalysator, Löwenherz. Not at all similar to Sautanz, but *the* Frankenjura classics at the grade so I must get them done.
7a
Dampfhammer. Not at all similar to Sautanz except that it too is a famous, polished Kurtie classic. But a must anyway for the German 7a aspirant.
Pfeilerweg, Griesen. Obscure route on obscure non-Frankenjura local crag, but looks superb.
Edelbitter, Konstein. Not similar to Sautanz, but the first 7a I tried and excellent. Finish this project in the spring when it's dry again.
Die Blaue, Konstein. Ron Fawcett route on obscure local crag. I haven't even looked at it yet but my mate Tom says it's good.
7a/+/b
Kalauer. "World's hardest 7a"? Sautanz-slightly-lite. On the same crag, similar in style and supposed to be not much easier. The benchmark.
7b
Maßarbeit, Zugabe: I know nothing about these except that Patrick Matros recommended them as targets for the Frankenjura 7b aspirant.
(Clipsticker: totally uninspiring three bolt boulder problem. Everybody's first UIAA IX- in the 'jura. Would be a shame if I had to resort to this.)
None of the above

 

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