Extreme Dream Bouldering Wall

Scott & his team have been very busy over the last few weeks at Extreme Dream painting most of the walls, adding more top ropping on flat panels with tiny holds!! and now have a fantastic new high ball bouldering area which I got to set a few problems on the other day.


There are also some funky new tuffas & features.

Dry Tooling League Final

Saturday was the final of the Scottish winter Dry Tooling League, it was held at the Ice factor in Kinlochleven, there was 16 problems to be completed in 5 hours one of the problems was on ice and one out doors, and the rest were in the climbing wall.

Some Pics of the Qualifying Round:

The Qualifying round Results:

U16 boys

Steven Addison 1st
Dylan Mackenzie 2nd
Johnny Field 3rd

U16 Girls

Nikki Addison 1st

Ellen Barber 2nd

After the Qualifying there was a final which was on the cantilevered wall. We all had to go into Isolation to warm up. Ellen was out first to climb then Nikki, Johnny, Dylan Then me. The route we were on was really hard but I managed to top out.

Some pics of us on the final route:

Ellen
Nikki

Johnny Dylan
Me Me

Me

After we had finished climbing we were able to watch the rest of the competitors Climb.

Some pics of the men and women on the final route:

Fiona Murry Anna Wells

Kev Shields

Malcom Kent
Andy TurnerDave Macleod

The Results of the Final round:

U16 Boys

Steven Addison 1st

Dylan Mackenzie 2nd

Johnny Field 3rd

U16 Girls

Nikki Addison 1st

Ellen Barber 2nd

All the rest of the resulst can be found here

Glenmore Lodge Dry Tooling Comp

Today was round four of the winter Dry Tooling league, it was held at glenmore Lodge Aviemore. There was three sessions One at 9 o'clock, 12 O'clock and 2 O'clock. I was climbing in the 12 o'clock session with Nikki.

When we got to Glenmore Lodge it was really cold but it got warmer by 12 O'clock when I was climbing!!!

This is the south side of The pillars we were climbing on.

Today was different climbing to the other competitions because it was out doors on real rock and you had to were crampons, and we only had 4 minutes to complete the route each. Nikki and I started on route 2 (one of the hardest routes) We had to stein pull up two vertical planks of wood and keep our feet in marked areas and a quarter of the way up the marked foot holds stopped and we had to plant our crampons in to the vertical planks of wood. Then when we got to the top of the vertical plank of wood we had to put our axes into a plank of horizontal wood and climb across it to the Finnish. It was a really good route and my favourite of the day! Then we had another eight to do before we were Finished.

The results of the Glenmore Lodge round are:

U16 boys:

Steven Addison 77 points 1st place

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U16 Girls

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Nikki Addison 20 points 1st place

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We got loads of video on Saturday and some pics:

At 3:30pm when the comp was finished we all headed into the lecture theatre for a lecture by Andy Turner on The Secret X.10, the new route he put up on Ben nevis last year with Steve Ashworth & Viv Scott.

Boreal Blades

The other day I received 2 pairs of Boreal rock shoes, the new Blades and a pair of Mutants, I managed to get a quick climb in the Blades and they feel really superb.


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Extreme-Dream Dry Tooling Round 3

Yesterday was the third round of the winter Dry-Tooling League, This week it was at Extreme-Dream Climbing Wall. We had to do 12 problems In 2 Hours. Some of the routes were on swinging logs and hard to stay on. I was going round with my sister and we managed to try all 12 of the routes.

Some pics of the qualifying round:

The results of the qualifying round:

Steven Addison = 97 points

Dylan Mackenzie = 74 points

Ellen Barber = 70 points

Nikki Addison = 50 points

So we all had to go into a final that was on the roof to see who would be the winner.

Some picts of the final:

That had to be the best round of the series!!

Ratho Dry Tooling comp

Yesterday was the second round of the winter dry tooling league it was held at Ratho indoor climbing wall in Edinburgh. There was three sessions 11am 1pm and 3pm. I was taken part in the 1pm session with Ellen Barbor, we only had two hours to get round all ten routes we managed to do 8 routes.
This week I had some competition Johnny stocking, Johnny Field and Dylan Mackenzie.




The results of the competition are:

• under 16 male

Johnny Stocking 100 points

Johnny Field 90 points

Steven Addison 77 points

Dylan Mackenzie 57 points

• Under 16 Female

Ellen Barber 69 points

All the rest of the the results can be found here.

More photos can be found here.

Winter Dry Tooling League 2008

Last Saturday was the first Dry tooling comp of the winter, it was held at Avertical wall in Dundee and I think it was really successfully. There was a good few people there but only three under 16, That was Me, Ellen Barber and Nikki. There was 15 problems and routes which were varied from easy to hard. I was going round with Nikki and Ellen, we only got through 10 routes/ problems as we ran out of time.

The results of the qualifiers round was:

• Under 16 Girls
• Ellen Barber 40 points 1st
  
  Nikki Addison 10 points 2nd
  
  
  Under 16 boys

Steven Addison 87 points 1st

• Veteran Men

Jimmy Addison 77 points 1st

Julian Barber 44 points 5th


Other Results can be found here

Saturday was a fantastic day, and next Saturday will hopefually be even better at Ratho.

Here are some picts that Ellen sent me:

Echo Wall

Just recieved my copy of Echo Wall through the post at 11:15 this morning, stopped everything I was doing and watched it.

Now all psyched up to get out and finish a project I am working on.

Well done Dave & Claire for a brilliant film.

http://www.davemacleod.com/shop.html#

BMC Leading Ladder 2008

For the last two weeks I have been attending the Leading Ladder at Extreme-dream climbing wall in Aviemore. There was 10 routes ranging from 5+ to 8A.
I managed to flash 7 of the problems, I made a stupid mistake on the 7A on my first attempt but managed to nail it on my second attempt.
The only two problems I never managed to complete were on the roof, a 7C and an 8A.
I managed to get half way across the roof on the 7C but there was very little for feet, I got three clips further on the 8A but kept falling off at crimp!!.
Alan says the problems will be left up for a while so I will keep working the roof ones till I nail them!!

Fort William Bouldering wall

This evening Myself, Dad and Nikki went to Fort William bouldering wall. I really like the bouldering wall because there are some really good problems. I was trying a purple boulder problem and I found a really good knee jam rest to rest on.

Some other pics:

You can also plug in your own i-pod and boulder to your own music... how cool is that!!