Get some really esoteric niche research published So esoteric, and so niche. Boom.Multi pitch multi day aid soloing Did do some multi pitch multi day aid though. In the jungle.Become capable of surfing on the non-frothy bit of a wave Didn't surf nearly as much as I'd have liked. I reckon I'm capable now but still haven't managed to drop in at the right time & place to stay ahead of a wave. Keep making steps towards being a gnarly ski mountaineer. 1) Ski touring 2) Try winter climbing! Did a little bit of both but nowhere near as much as I'd have liked.Suffer. Aspire to gnarliness. Think jungle big wall aid chosseteering just about counted. Especially when we had to boil the digestive fluids of carnivorous plants to make tea.F8a on trad gearMore cleaning/new routing - learn to bolt. Got some tasty things I want to get stuck into next year though.Siege a sport route successfully, ideally at Ansteys or Shipwreck. Haven't done anything that's taken more than a day or two, and still not even been to 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.Did significantly worse on Loskot than last year, only got 3 days in Buoux before having to come home (planning on returning soon though) but made up for all that on the Quarryman.
Finding inspiring and useful goals was surprisingly difficult for me. That in itself tells me something...Goals for 2015:1. Trying to redpoint something hard, and not giving up just because it takes more than a few tries.
2. Trying something very long and quite runout (the red-point crux should be at least 55 above ground) (probably in Gorges du Tarn, but Verdon is also OK) that is hard enough so that I take at least a few really long falls. [Not being fazed by the falls would be a BHAG]
Quote from: jwi on December 08, 2014, 03:52:52 pmFinding inspiring and useful goals was surprisingly difficult for me. That in itself tells me something...Goals for 2015:1. Trying to redpoint something hard, and not giving up just because it takes more than a few tries.12 tries where almost every attempt was a slight improvement hardly qualifies?
Quote from: jwi on January 05, 2016, 02:17:46 pmQuote from: jwi on December 08, 2014, 03:52:52 pmFinding inspiring and useful goals was surprisingly difficult for me. That in itself tells me something...Goals for 2015:1. Trying to redpoint something hard, and not giving up just because it takes more than a few tries.12 tries where almost every attempt was a slight improvement hardly qualifies? Weren't they 12 tries at Oliana? i.e. 4-6 climbing days? That qualifies for at least orange in my opinion.