YCS Final, London

On Friday myself and 4 other North Scotland team members flew down to London from Inverness to compete in the YCS final at Westway climbing wall, London.

The day of the comp was really hot but pretty well organised by the BMC, as there was not a lot of room for everyone (climbers & spectators).

I managed to get 8th place overall, I would have liked to have done better but as it was my first year in the oldest catagory and I was competing against guys a lot bigger than me, I am quite pleased with the result.

Overall Scotland North done really well getting 3rd place in the team results, beating Scotland South (5th place)... Thanks Ruairidh for the training :) :)

YCS Round 3

Saturday was the third and last round of the YCS which was held at the Ice Factor Kinlochleven. We had to get up at 6:00AM to travel down to Kinlochleven, as the competition started at 10:00. I managed to get two of the boulder problem's and three holds off topping out in the third, and topped out in two of the routes and got 3/4 of the way up the last one. Alasdair Johnston and I got the same final score, so we had to have a climb off. I was first out in the climb off and managed to get about 1/2 way the route before my foot slipped off, Alasdair got to the 2nd last hold and slipped off (well done Alaster!!).



Here are some of the results from some of my friends.


Age group 11-13 girls:
Nikki Addison 1st
Dawn longwoth 2nd


11-13 Boys:
Dylan Mackinzie 1st
Ruaridh Macaskill 2nd



14-16 Girls
Ellen Macaskill 1st
Ellen Barber 3rd

14-16 Boys
Alasdair Johnston 1st
Steven Addison 2nd
Sam Leakey 5th
Lewis Deacon 11th

Thanks very much Ruaridh Mackinzie and all the other route setters, Climbing wall's and the MCofS for donating prizes and hosting a really good event.

The results can be found here:

YCS Round 2

Today I took part in round two of the YCS. I really enjoyed the day and really liked all of the routes and boulder problems. We started with the boulder problems this week and I managed to get 163 points and 283 points on the routes.

I managed to finish 2nd= place, 3 points behind the winner Alastair Johnstone

Here are some pics of the day:

Here is a link to the results http://www.indoorsout.co.uk/index.htm#brycs2009results.htm

Thanks very much to the Route setters!!