Just got back from my trip to the alps with Jimbo Kimber and Mark Croxall!
We went so Mark could represent Great Britain in the locally held round of the world cup series, and Jimbo and myself could check out the local bouldering.
Mark climbed awesomely and got 6th place overall, which is Team GB's best position this year. Congratulations are well deserved. Jimbo got up some really good problems, and I climbed like a girl for the week and was only managing the easy problems. My new mantra is "Must get better, must get better!"
The bouldering is f-ing amazing with all sorts of problems to try. Grades go from piss to a Font 8C that still has to be done. The granite is tough on the tips, but not as bad as Dartmoor. The biggest problem was the heat, with temperatures regularly in the high twenties, even at altitude.
Highlights have to be:-
Climbing with Lisa Rands.
Going to the after competition party and being typically British on holiday by drinking far more than all the foreigners, and then being sick.
The badass scenery.
Getting Mark's 1.4 Fiat Tipo to 114mph and then hearing it explode 6 miles from Calais and having to get towed to the ferry.
Standing on snow in July.
and Spending loads of money on new kit.
I will get the best photos to Bubba ASAP.