[Will Hunt]

I hear ya fiend! My theory on winter climbing is that below grade V or VI its just a way for shit climbers to look hardcore. Or for people who want to go to Scotland and not get eaten by midges!

Most of it just looks like dry tooling on classic summer rock routes which have a thin as fuck coat of rime on them 


Punter away, Suckas!

[GCW]

I've never led above VIII, so I probably shouldn't comment, however......

below grade V or VI

What a lot of arse.  Yes, there's some twats that go out to look cool but anything up to IV can be a nice solo or a quick ascent to the summit/descent.  There's some super classic routes in this grade range that make for superb days out- Curved Ridge, Crowberry, Aonach Eagach, The Curtain, Raeburn's Arete, Observatory Buttress Direct, Green Gully, Route Major, Combe Gully, NE Buttress, Morwind, etc etc

Besides, if you enjoy it and do it for fun (rather than to look cool), what the fuck?  Get out and do stuff you like.

Most of it just looks like dry tooling on classic summer rock routes which have a thin as fuck coat of rime on them 

Nope, this is just fuckheads doing stuff in non-winter conditions.  When I did Centurion it was proper Winter nick- I love the summer route and would never do anything to jeopardise it.  Again, some people are so desperate to get a tick they climb a route in crampons and claim a winter tick.  Fuck them, that's not the game.

Winter is great whilst it works.  After some bad experiences I quit, never to return.  Pour scorn all you like Will, but people still die on easy routes and the whole man v weather is not to be laughed at.

[tommytwotone]

Get a room you two!

Mine for two thousand and ten / twenty ten / two thousand-ten (as my US colleagues have taken to calling it)...

First up, heal up from whatever I've done to my ankle. On that condition:

Climbing:

Cliff classics - Gypsy, Syrett's and especially Demon Wall Bloody Sodding Roof
Tear myself away from the Cliff and explore Yorkshire Grit
Climb a 7b..I mean a FONT 7b. Would be psyched if it were in the forest
Long John's Slab and Flying Buttress Direct, two that I never knocked off before I left
On the subject of old scores to settle - Breakfast
32 routes on my 32nd birthday

Non-climbing:

Get 10k time down to 47mins, might give a half marathon a crack as well
Get playing darts again, and get my three dart average up there over 50
Get to some more Spartans games
Save some money up so I've got a contingency fund
Go to NYC

[SA Chris]

Not the time and place, but Will you clearly do not have the vaguest idea of what you are talking about.

[Richie Crouch]

With your strength it should be 8b/8b+ not a measly 7b+. Man up Hession.

Aim low.. achieve! 

[Durbs]

Slightly lower aims than you guys, but heck - still a goal
Doesn't help being in Surrey away from real rocks

~ Tick a 7A at Craggy2 (6c was this years goal, and only just managed one 6b...)
~ When in Font for 2nd time, get spanked less, climb at least 3 6a's
~ Take more falls when leading
~ Get one arm lock-offs on both arms
~ Build training wall at home

We shall see.

[rich d]

My main aim is to get up some font7as.mainly beechball at secret garden, attitude inspector at Burbage and trackside - although I plan on using all my lank for this.
I even have a training plan that I started last night.
 

[Richie Crouch]

I hope it involves a combination of the following Rich...


and


 

[Johnny Brown]

1. Write a book
2. Get competent at > Grade IV

[cofe]

1. Write a book

<sound of whip cracking...>

[dave]

1. keep fucking the idiots.

[Bonjoy]

1. Write a book

You'd be alright if you were Elvis Costello, he writes one every day

[uptown]

1. Learn to shuffle
2. Climb outside of Browntown

[SA Chris]

2. Get competent at > Grade IV

Tired of being a "shit climber looking hardcore"?

[Will Hunt]

Not the time and place, but Will you clearly do not have the vaguest idea of what you are talking about.

I know!

I'm the only one of my main climbing mates who doesn't start scratching and sniffing at the door once it gets cold so I have to find some sort of stance to defend myself from. It looks like an alright laugh. Maybe sometime I'll have a go. Not for the time being though.

[nai]

Never logged my list of objectives in public before, hopefully putting it out there adds some motivation to get stuck into it.

Climbing:
Do a few of the problems that have been giving me a long-term spanking or that I've not been back to in years.  Small Is Beautiful, LIARD, Stall Arete, Oedipus, Acme Wall come to mind.
Crack font 7c.  The Terrace, DWR LH, Great White or The Keel would be nice but I'll take what's going.
Brad Pit, this might be more of a lifetime thing.
Get on more trad, tick off some of the classics that have escaped me, do E3 again.
Have at least one day climbing in the mountains, somewhere like Cloggy, Cryn Las or even Craig Yr Wsfa.
Climb indoors once less than 2009.
Go to font too late in spring to bother about climbing hard and just enjoy being in the forest doing circuits like the old days, take my girl around the kids circuits.
Do a one armer on my loft edge.

Non-climbing
Get my back sorted and get out running & riding again.
Take more photographs & improve my skills.
Lift the coveted ukb ffl trophy.

[rginns]

As a general aim for 2010 carry on getting stronger and making time on the rock more focussed, i.e. tick more stuff in less time...also I'd like to get more multipitch mountain trad done, hvs competently, climb font 7a, add to the hangboard and actually use it...

Also get fit for font in Easter - main font aim is to tick some classic 6as/6bs, list yet to be compiled.

As for UK, these are mostly local carryovers from 09...

1 - Satisfying sloper problem (Brownstones)
2 - Pickpocket's Crack (Widdop)
3 - Hacker start (Wilton 1)
4 -Verdinand (Brownstones)
5 - Burnt Heather (Thorn)
6 - Catfoot (Round Barn)
7 - Staffs Flyer (Roaches)
8 - Nexus dyno (Brownstones)
9 -Pond Traverse (Brownstones)
10 - Lancashire PotHot (Brownstones)
11 - Elemental (Thorn)
12 - Groundhog standing start (Brownstones)

(no.12 is ambitious...)

non-climbing:
put up fence
chop down trees in side garden
fix roof
new carpet...
better crop of vegetables, i.e. not just yellow tomatoes....

[hairich]

climbing

1 brad pit-hold onto the jug rather than keep missing it
2 la joker at cuvier- sessions on this now ,feels more like 7c rather than 7a
3 the joker stanage first font 8a holds felt good now just need to latch top

non climbing

1 try and repair the rift with the mrs and get back how we were

[Drew]

Have at least one day climbing in the mountains, somewhere like ... Craig Yr Wsfa.

Is that near Craig Yr Ysfa?

[grumpycrumpy]

Keep off the weight I've lost
Get some strength back

Traverse under Deliverance ..... 

[Nizza]

climbing

1 brad pit-hold onto the jug rather than keep missing it
2 la joker at cuvier- sessions on this now ,feels more like 7c rather than 7a
3 the joker stanage first font 8a holds felt good now just need to latch top

non climbing

1 try and repair the rift with the mrs and get back how we were

My guess is the last one will probably give you the most long lasting satisfaction, best of luck with it.

[Falling Down]

Well said

[csurfleet]

Okies lets give this a go.

- Consolidate at E2 and push onto E3, aiming to get Necromonicon sorted sometime in summer.
- Do more outdoor bouldering! Find some inspiring problems to get working on.
- Get a version of my training app released.

[match]

Key 2010 aim - recover full use of left hand. Given this, then the following will do for starters:
1) Bouldering:
Peak - Deliverance, Boba Fett
Yorks - Sulky Little Boys, The Keel, Horror arete, Jerry's arete, New Jerusalem, Scary Canary, Millstone Grit, Red Baron, Fight on Black
2) A bit bigger: Adrenaline Rush, The Great Flake, Wall of Horrors, Downhill Racer, Wings of Unreason/Track of the Cat, White Wand, Left Wall (Brimham), Poseidon Adventure
3) And in other silliness: Silly Arete, Ichabod, Big Groove/The Moon, Lubyanka, Great Wall, Right Wall

[Monolith]

1. Win the prize for best design in the year.
2. Secure the placement in a Ticino design studio I've applied for.
3. Get the fuck out of home.
4. Continue developing Fibonacci FM
5. Touch a female
6. Reduce social calendar commitments and convert them to rock climbing ones.
7. Lastly and most importantly, finish my project.