[Stu Littlefair]

I have only one aim for 2009: DON'T GET INJURED.

If I achieve that then I want to follow in the path of the Mighty Messrs Haston & Bolger and tick 8c+, then if I achieve that I want to tick

1) The Groove, Malham.
2) Mecca Extension
3) Unjustified.

But not necessarily in that order. I'd take a font 8b tick as well if I could find one I could do. But mostly DON'T GET INJURED.

[robertostallioni]

Connoisseur!!!
Let me know when you intend to do the groove. I'll sell tickets...I would love to see it. Can we fit you with a throat mike for the half height rest??????

[Stu Littlefair]

Connoisseur!!!
Let me know when you intend to do the groove. I'll sell tickets...I would love to see it. Can we fit you with a throat mike for the half height rest??????

If I manage the groove there'll be video on the interweb within minutes, and an interview with mick ryan from the half height rest - fear not. Failing that, if it takes as many days as I think it might, I'm sure you'll see a couple of goes 

[Houdini]

Run a sub-3 hour marathon.

Earn more cash than I need (for a change).

[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

[abarro81]

- more big trad e6s (skinhead, dreams and screams, jub-jub, king wad, MSND, lots in pembroke, more in ireland etc)
- a big trad e7 onsight/flash
- get back to ireland
- get to scotland

- solo caveman then have the balls to jump off after the traverse pitch
- onsight more 7c/7c+s and maybe flash 8a
- redpoint 8b
- more euro sport love, and get some good dws done

- 7C+ on lime (ben's roof or PUTP maybe)
- 8A (and even more optimistically, careless torque GU)
- go back to font

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

[Will Hunt]

Climb something. Anything!
Would like to do a VS or HVS or E1 before the year is done. Doesn't matter what it is or whether I've don't it before. Anything will do.

[Eddies]

MILEAGE

• Tick half a dozen good V8’s
• A few classic 7a sport routes over summer (assuming we get one this year)
• ‘Cairn’ and ‘Rubicon’ would be nice too if all goes well.
• Some big easy trad in north Wales (proper adventure climbing/character building!)
• Make a concerted effort to spend less time training on the crimpy vertical stuff and crank on the 45deg board a lot more.

[Falling Down]

Onsight some E5's in the mountains or seacliffs
Boulder Font 7b
Lead a 7c
Edale Skyline and a couple of the classic Lakes races
Get back to playing the guitar with more regularity
Get weight below 12 stone
Drink less

[Oli]

Onsight some E5s, maybe try and flash an E6.
More classic problems.
7C.
Redpoint an 8a.
More seacliffs and non-peak areas.

[richdraws]

A few boulder problems;
Rockattrocity
Jerry's roof
Famous Grouse
Brad Pitt
Full Power
Bens Roof

Boulder abroad somewhere other than Font.

Close the 2.5 CoC (Remember they are useless though).
Spend some time sport climbing and learn how to do it properly, perhaps climb 8a?
Reduce alcohol consumption.
Increase cv exercise by cycling to work.
Improve my portfolio (art not shares).
Buy first house with The little drummer girl.
Burn Matt Wrigley and Sharik off -hah!

[GCW]

Reduce alcohol consumption.

This is a recurring theme.  I should probably take note myself   

[Jim]

for what reason?
I've had it with reality

[GCW]

I think I should maybe cut down to under 6 pints a night 

[uptown]

what do you want to achieve in 2009?

climbing or non climbing.

climbing - continuing to find new grit pearls where everyone least expects them.
non climbing - a home and a little lodger.

[andy_e]

non climbing - a home

This is aims for 2009, not aims for 2090.

[nik at work]

You should come to ours Andi, then you really would see hopeless optimism in action.....

Non climbing goals:
More windows
More floors
More walls

[moose]

Climbing:

Bouldering
Put away a few of my long term projects.  Any from:
- Earl: Sloping Beauty, Superfly, Handy Andy's, The Flakes.
- Almscliff: Underhand (surely it can't hold out for a third year), Virgin 7b, The Keel, Fieldside (if the bog ever dries / freezes), Pistol Whip, Streaky's Traverse.
- Brimham: Titfield Thunderbolt, The Long Haul, Crimpy Roof.
- Ilkley: Ringpiece, First Arete (even though it's pretty horrible).
- Caley: Ben's Groove (spotters / lack of self-preservation required).
- Slipstones: Layby Arete
Also, get to the Peak more and mop up a few of the classics, return to the County and/or Wales.

Roped shizzle
- Consolidate E2 trad (particularly like to tick The Rasp, Erb, and Knightsbridge).
- Make inroads into E3, especially the limestone classics (Adjudicator Wall, Black Grub, The Beest, Absent Friends, Rave On).  Lead the big three Almscliff E3s.
- Do more sport routes and get some proper climbing fitness.  I'm currently limited by my inability to climb anything that doesn't comprise crimpy cruxes interspersed by good rests!

Non-Climbing

- Get a job... preferably one that doesn't make me hate myself (or at least one that pays well enough to compensate).  Being on the dole is shit but spending 70% of my waking life as a zombie, marking time until the weekend doesn't appeal either.
- Move out of my parent's house (see previous aim for the means of achieving this).
- Stop eating so much cake (see previous aim for the means of achieving the necessary distance from mum's cookery).
- Start playing the guitar again.

[Adam Lincoln]

1) The Joker
2) The Groove - Malham
3) Supercool - Gordale
4) Urgent Action - Kilnsey
5) Finish off loose ends on the routes from this year.
6) Flash 7c+
7) Climb an 8b
Go to Albarricin
9) Iron Man
10) Caviar - Rubicon

[Yossarian]

Climbing (in increasing order of unlikeliness):

Go climbing
Go climbing again
Improve on my magnificent 2008 bouldering best of Fb6a+ (no, really)
Reacquaint myself with gritstone trad and attack the grey area in between what (in the distant past) I've onsighted (E3) and what I've fallen off (E5). Perfect Day would be nice. And Goosey Goosey Gander (if I can get a bit fitter).
Get up some quality stuff in the V6 to V8 range. No idea what.  Any good suggestions for a 6ft3 technical dunce with zero strength and a bit of a twitch?
A European sport climbing expedition, culminating in an onsight of Chouca wearing nothing but a red bandana and a pair of John Galliano underpants.  Possibly photographed by David LaChapelle...

Biking

Maintain my current MTBing motivation drive
Do a few time trials
Finish off tweaking the big bike
Perfect my shore skills
Ride the big drop at Ae
Crush some serious DH on my proposed Alpine adventure

Others

Finish final draft of the best novel since Leo Tolstoy put down his pen, scratched his anus, picked his nose, chewed the little green chunk hanging from his fingernail, farted, breathed in through his now clear nasal cavity, smiled to himself in that way you do when you think you've produced something worth bottling, and then, moments later, toy with the title War and Onanism.
Finalise and put into action the greatest furniture-related business scheme since Thomas Chippendale decided to rub French polish into a young man instead of a break-front wardrobe.
Design a house fit for a Bond villain
Lose my virginity
 

[Fiend]

0. Recover from debilitating elbow injury.

Then, carried over:

1. Climb remaining E2-4 routes in Lleyn section of North Wales Rock before spring.
2. Climb abroad on either Scandinavian granite or German/Czech sandstone.
3. Go on whatever bouldering / sport trips abroad are available.
4. Hang out with my mates more and do more climbing with them.
5. Climb a few remaining inspirations at Nesscliffe, Baggy, a few esoteric odds and sods, and on grit.

[moose]

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.

[rginns]

Hmmm,I passed on this thread last year, but what the hell,  cue punterdom 

General aims, get fitter, lose half a stone, climb 6c+, learn how to rockover, generally get out more, HVS, and prove that getting married doesn't mean the end of a climbing llife...   

ok, here goes - mostly local as it's tricky getting away

Boopers - (Brownstones) still not bloody topped out, although it's a only a matter of time!
Elemental - (Thorn) find this fine until the rockover... just can't nail it though
Brian Jacques - (Cadshaw) not tried it yet but looks awesome
Pond Traverse (Brownstones) easy, but always get knackered, also the pond only gets dry for about 4 weeks a year...
Burnt Heather (Thorn) before it gets polished... shame it's such an arse to get up there
Catfoot (Round Barn) awesome, although feels really high. need to get back on this
The Hacker start (Wilton 1) cos it's close and looks good
Staffs Flyer - (Roaches) something I've wanted to do for a while and never got round to

I'm open to suggestions for the remaining 2 - would be good to get to St. Bees, develop some esoterica and clean up some tottering holes that noone goes to
bring it on. OF course whether I do any of this is another question

[dontfollowme]

• Climb somewhere abroad that isn't Font
• Climb outside more
• Use time at climbing wall more productively
• Drink/Eat less

[andy popp]

Have a genuine reason to post in the YYFY thread - i.e. do something that really pushes and excites me (El Rincon at Dinbren is one target that might fulfill these criteria, would be my first 8a in a long time)

Finish the last few projects at Helsby (pretty imperative as a couple of them are already written into the script for the new guide)

Climb E5 in good style

Go on a climbing trip