Home Boulder Wall

The boulder wall in my garage has been changed several times, from three flat panels, to one flat panel, 20 degrees over hanging wall, 45 board and a small 90 degrees panel on the roof. Its awesome to train on. Last summer I spent more time in my garage than I did at my local wall, I could put my music up loud and set as hard as I wanted to.

Today I spent the afternoon resetting circuits, so I can get back to hard training. When I am training on my 45 board I usually train for up to two hours, usually doing hard circuits!

Right now I am training for the British team assessment which is in March, it might decide who goes to the European competitions this year, its hard for me this year because I have all of my Major exams, but I will still try my hardest to keep up my training. Where I live there is only one climbing wall and the next is 150 miles away down in Edinburgh, and in my local wall the hardest route is 7c. It really sucks but I just have to train more on my 45 board and travel down to Edinburgh more often.

Applecross bouldering

This weekend I managed to persuade my dad to take me to Applecross so I could do some bouldering, the weather was scorching hot about 25'C. I went to sand bay boulders and managed to get a little bit of bouldering done, despite the weather was really hot and there was lots of horse flies biting at my back and legs.

Me on MOD Traverse V4+

We were going to stop off at Torridon boulders on the way home, but it was getting late in the day and we had no food or water left, the nearest shop was 20miles away, so we headed home as the weather forecast for the following day was heavy RAIN !!

Dumbarton

Today I went to Dumbarton with my Dad and met up with a professional photographer Lukasz Warzecha , he was taking some pictures for a Polish climbing magazine Gory. I have always wanted to go to Dumbarton to see E11 Raphosady. The weather was really good and I managed to get a lot of climbing done. Most of the boulder problem holds are really polished and do not have very good friction but I managed to get some problems done. I didn't manage to get any routes done because all of the routes I wanted to try were either wet or had slippy green slime over them.

Photos from Lukasz Warzecha still to come!!

Brin Bouldering V4 Success

After going to Brin last Wednesday and attempting Spank The ramp V4, I wanted to go back and complete the problem, so today I went back to Brin With my dad and was working Spank The Ramp. I spent a long time on it trying to get all the moves, but it paid off as I eventually got it.
I think the hardest part of the problem for me was the sitting start as reaching the first hold was a problem!!





Spank The Ramp V4

Brin Bouldering

Today I went to Brin, Bouldering with some friends. We spent most of the day there and we managed to do lots of climbing.



Some pics of us climbing.

Ellen



Me attempting Spank The Ramp V4
Ellen on Lichen It V0
Me on Flakes V2

Ended the day working Lip Trip V4 on The Block, managed to get halfway along.

We had a really good day out and cant weight till next time !!

Tom Riach

Yesterday afternoon My dad and I decided to go to Tom Riach boulder. I managed to do a few Boulder problems:

The Dark side V0+

North buttress V0

The Long Riach V2

Drainpipe Scoop V0

Appin Colours V2

West Arete V2

Butchers Left Hand V3+

South West Face Traverse V4+

On the South West Traverse V4+


Really good day bouldering at Tom Riach.