YYFY!!! (Read 2294434 times)

DaveC · January 04, 2013, 11:09:43 am

Quote from: Durbs on January 04, 2013, 10:01:59 am

:D We're worse than wildebeast...

...but with a few less worries on the journey.

cheque · January 04, 2013, 12:21:36 pm

Quote from: Durbs on January 04, 2013, 10:01:59 am

:D We're worse than Wildebeest...

fatdoc · January 04, 2013, 12:44:26 pm

Quote from: erm, sam on January 04, 2013, 09:51:19 am

+1
Also going to Font on the week of the great migration. Staying at Maison Bleau so hoping Neil can give us some good-off-the-beaten-track-spot info.

When did you book to get in there? 2010??

I'll se u there, I'm comin round to maisonbleau to go biking with neil at some point.

erm, sam · January 04, 2013, 01:30:57 pm

Yes, it was wierd. Booked last Oct-ish. It was all booked but then somebody dropped out of one Gite so I snagged that, then unbelivably the 2nd Gite became available so it was snagged for the legend that is Sam Townsend and family. It is going to be awesome. Not climbed with Sam in about 15 years.

Durbs · January 04, 2013, 01:47:11 pm

Would it be quicker to have a "Who's not going to Font at Easter?" thread?

I think the wildebeast parallel is quite good, with the cheetah representing the French police...

a dense loner · January 04, 2013, 01:55:08 pm

I'm not going font at Easter

rich d · January 04, 2013, 02:19:48 pm

You'll have to video that to prove it Dense as I don't believe you can be a witness for yourself.

a dense loner · January 04, 2013, 02:29:42 pm

People will just have to do it the old fashioned way and take me at my word. I hope no one sees me in font at Easter now!

Richie Crouch · January 04, 2013, 03:00:46 pm

If you fancy a romantic weekend at the Orme instead Lee, I still have space for a +1 in the car boot on Easter weekend.

a dense loner · January 04, 2013, 03:07:17 pm

So many choices...

Jim · January 04, 2013, 06:21:38 pm

Like Dense, I'm not foolish enough to go to font at easter

andyd · January 04, 2013, 06:34:08 pm

Quote from: Durbs on January 04, 2013, 01:47:11 pm

Would it be quicker to have a "Who's not going to Font at Easter?" thread?

I think the wildebeast parallel is quite good, with the cheetah representing the French police...

...or the majority of crappy gite owners

joe dobson · January 08, 2013, 10:30:02 pm

3 weeks after snapping something in my finger I've had my first session indoors!

Bar feeling weak from 3 weeks off and far to much food, had a good session without any pain in the finger. Didn't feel like it held me back either

Moo · January 08, 2013, 10:32:24 pm

fools rush in joe go steady

joe dobson · January 08, 2013, 10:35:18 pm

in the middle of uni exams at the moment so the next session won't probably be for another 3 weeks

Icing and messaging the finger daily as well which should help.

Moo · January 08, 2013, 10:57:06 pm

it's not so much the length of time off joe, rather the speed with which you endevour to return to full strength which will determine the course of your fate.

moose · January 13, 2013, 10:12:37 pm

Did Ian's Traverse at Brimham - two years after losing all my strength due to medical woes (and getting a job!) I finally feel like I'm getting some form back. Done the problem before, but to make it sweeter, this time I did it with a kosher sequence (keeping to lip, heeling hooking pebble for crux) - no lankmeister feet-on-back-wall malarky for crux this time. Result. Might break out the Lagavullin to celebrate.

Mike Tyson · January 13, 2013, 10:23:21 pm

Bravo!

tomtom · January 13, 2013, 10:40:11 pm

Quote from: Golt on January 13, 2013, 10:23:21 pm

Bravo!

+1

andy_e · January 14, 2013, 09:48:43 am

Good work Moose! It seems like a quite a bunched problem too, have you got shorter?

moose · January 14, 2013, 10:28:03 am

I bloody well hope I haven't got any shorter - lank is all I have and an attack of rickets would be a bit worrying. It is a bit bunched - hence my previous sequence which used a flying front-lever to a distant foothold on the back-wall to support the crux reach to the undercut under the roof. With the "official" sequence, the key is just trusting the marginal holds - heel on a pebble, left-hand on a barely there crimp - and trying not to worry about the nearby block. Seems what I might have lost in strength I have made up for in reckless idiocy and stubbornness (I fell off whilst reaching to the final hold four times)!

fatneck · January 14, 2013, 04:30:39 pm

Had a boss day out on Sat at Thorn Crag and managed to ascend And For My Next Trick thus ticking my first 7a in about three years! Been on it before and got shut down but with a bit of sound beta from BenF I managed to rinse it really quickly

My weight loss and font training programme is already bearing fruit

Well Brown...

tesla · January 14, 2013, 05:06:46 pm

Minor YYFY. My daughter just qualified for the ABS National Youth Bouldering comp in March. This YYFY is mine, though, as I now get to visit Colorado and have a mooch around, I've not ever been there before. Interested to visit Boulder and a few other places if I have time.

SA Chris · January 14, 2013, 08:12:54 pm

Nice one. Where is the comp? Denver, Boulder or Fort Collins? Still be awesome snows at the front range resorts as well if you fancied.

tesla · January 14, 2013, 09:16:14 pm

heh, it's Colorado Springs which is apparently ultra conservative and religious, so not too excited about that in itself - but I will take a day or two and visit some other places, maybe go skiing. The company I work for has an office in Boulder so I might work from there for a day too just to check it out.