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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