Fontainepoo Part Deux

After a week of nursing various niggles and a brief unadvisable last minute woody session...I returned with a large group of Scousers (as well as some token Beasts from Lancashire and Rotherham) to the magical forest of Fontainebleau.

Sun 11th April

We arrived at our wonderful gite in Chailly-en-Biere late afternoon and decided to hit Cuvier hard, with it being a joyous 3 minute drive away.

We warmed up on the start of the Red Circuit which featured some truly fantastic problems like Red 1 and Trou de Simon, as well as a desperate 5+ blue that took me about 4 attempts.

I made a beeline for Biceps Mou Roof and put on my fresh out the box 5.10 Projects that were a last minute impulse buy at work on Saturday. They felt super tight but had that broken in feel straight away.

I think my left arm must have recovered as I could now do the first move static that evaded me a couple weeks back. The rest fell into place and after greasing off the RH sidepull a few times, I locked it out static to the slopey shoulder and snatched my way up to the top.

As this went on Becki happened to piss up Picon Biere for her first forest 7a and then added the sitter for her first 7a+.

Dolph crushed Hypotheuse in about 2 goes and then Infidele and was trying the sitter to the latter.

As Dolph, Owen and Pete went on the deserted Carnage block I decided to run over to Aerodynamite. I met a guy called Raul there who was in Magic Wood last summer and happened to be the previous owner of Johnny the Dog. I had my first go and utilised Davey P's heel beta which made everything utter piss all of a sudden and I was stood up in the pocket only to slap with the wrong hand and slide backwards. Raul then crushed it and after a brief rest I got up it on the 2nd try. It was nice to get something done that had kicked my arse hard a couple years back!

We finished off on the Carnage block where Dolph then walked up Berezina, did the link into Carnage and then greased off the sitter repeatedly as it went really humid. I was getting shut down on the match on Berezina so went round back and tried La Balance. First go was good and as I brought my right hand up to the high sloper the left pinged off. Further goes finished much the same as it got harder to hang on to greasy holds. One to come back for.

Mon 12th

We hit up Apremont and warmed up just down from the Ju Jitsu block. I went off on a personal quest straight to Onde De Choc, brushed the holds, booted up and then did it first try. It felt about a million times better than last trip due to not being in the baking sun.

I got on Fil a Tordre to show Dolph how desperate it was and he agreed as I got spanked for the 3rd session on this 7a?!

There was plenty of action at Egoiste with several ascents and some near misses from not 1 but 2 people dropping off the top out.

A couple of people did Clin D'Oeil and Mark got up Hyperplomb after an epic to get over the bulge. I did a cool problem above this called Hueco Depart which was steep and spanny and we moved over to the other side of Central.

Owen flashed Faux contact and I did likewise just about. We then worked on the direct Full Contact and after about 5 or 6 different methods for the 2nd move, gave up and went and got a consolation problem of Happy Boulder. As most people tired of the climbing, myself, O and Mike went off to check out Crazy Horse at Apremont Ouest.

We got there and met some French guy who wanted to see beta before trying it. Me and O worked on 2 very different sequences and it eventaully succumbed to my left kneebar, right heel on rail sequence to get up and right again to the top holds. I thought the start was really brutal to get up and left in the crack to a decent pinch/sidepull but ok after this. The French guy then tried to copy but got a shut down after beta whoring for the previous 15 minutes!

I had a brief play on Sitting Bull but didn't fancy the topout, so bailed to meet everyone back at the carpark.

Tues 13th

I took a rest day feeling a bit battered from the previous days and followed Dolph around to try and get some actual climbing ascents on film, as the curse of the camera had worked to great effect on the first 2 days!

Me and Mark rocked up to meet the others at Imothep after briefly chatting to Neil H at the carpark and getting some directions. I had only been there a minute or 2 and shouted out the match beta for the penultimate moves, got the camera on and just caught him cruising it with ease.

The Beast of Rotherham also managed to see off Controle Technique after an almighty battle with blind alleys and the all day on-off showers that kept it nice and damp.

Owen climbed Renconnetre Plafonique with Andy capturing his girly screams of "be good..BE GOOD!" as he slapped blindly over the top to the mirth of many.

We had an amazing Chilli in the evening that Ste rustled up and I consumed my 3rd bottle of red in 3 days to keep up the strong drinking ethic.

Weds 14th

The rest day seemed to do the trick and I came out fighting with a brief warmup on some red's and Graviton and then to try Sale Gosse with my newly aquired right foot beta from vimeo. I pulled on to the first move with the mono and sidepull and sat over my right leg flagging deep, went for the left bi-doight splay and greased off. The holds received a good pounding with a towel and I used some liquid chalk. Another false start and my arms were finally warm. The first move was stuck and then the 2nd barely. I was having to adjust a lot on both holds as I got my left toe up into the pocket. I rotated and remembered to bounce the right foot up to a dish hold. All of a sudden everything felt instantly better and I could launch left hand up for the top. A moment of weightlessness and the right foot was still on... as was the left hand! I quickly matched and scrambled up in a Bradbury style to dispatch yet another nemesis.

The rest of the morning consisted of eating and heckling in equal measure. Si got agonisingly close to Graviton using the heel behind flake method. Fish head horribly overpowered it with his floundering beached whale technique and then made amends with a much smoother ascent of Jet Set.

The rabble headed over to Cul de Chien and found only a handful of French kids at Le Toit de cul de Chien.

I convinced Mark to go first and he got through to the lip hold only for his feet to cut early and he lost grip on the outswing. I went up next with the heckling of Owen whistling Z cars as he recorded it. Not to be distracted I got up to the RH mono to find it was actually a 2 finger jug. The left heel clamped on the polish, as the right foot flagged wide and I locked it out to the lip to find another fingerbucket, gained the jug over the lip and then campussed the next moves before a casual rockover (ignoring cries to french blow incase anything popped and made the flash safe).

Me and Dolph moved over to Le Autre Toit with Ste and Fish head along taking photos. He put the pressure on me by saying Arabesque is ok with beta as he flashed it with Andy Jennings shouting the numbers out. Time had taken its toll as he was unable to remember much and I spent about 15 minutes puntering it up. A kneebar pad was brought out to avoid my left leg getting wrecked and then it all clicked into place for Mike about keeping the left leg in for some extra hand moves. A good rest and I got through the steepness and stood up with my left foot on the Eclipse RH hold and right heel on the pocket shaking out the pump, before a wonderul rockover & mantle to the top!

I got down and had a good whitey before announcing I may as well have a little look at Eclipse as climbing hard tomorrow was a write-off.

5 minutes later and the moves were all done with the last move being a superb crossover/barndoor latch off a lovely pinch/sidepull. I was psyched and got through the roof only to find it hard to get the left toe just right. Dolph couldn't sit still watching a relative punter do all the moves fairly fast and warmed up trying the first moves.

Fast forward to about an hour later and I was lying on the ground feeling dizzy after having greased off or powered out on the last move about 5 or 6 times. Dolph hadn't faired much better having also dropped it with his fingertips at the hold. We eventually had to give in as it was too greasy and we were both battered.

We finished off at Gasthaus Unterslag where he made the terrifying leap and I bottled it. We both got up a great little quarried slab/arete called Dernier Angle just downhill and then got a lift back to the gite for an amazing all you can eat pizza night courtesy of Chef Fatneck.

Thu 15th

I chose to gamble on having another day off to fluke good conditions and send hard on Friday. We went early doors to Franchard Cuisiniere to the Karma area.

Mike made rapid progress on Karma hitting the 2nd right hand hold and then flicking his left heel up but kept sliding off the right hand due to bad temps and sunlight (as well as not being rested due to the Eclipse saga!)

Owen, Andy and Ste all got Bizarre Bizarre done from a sitter and we moved over to Magnifique which saw ascents from Kev, Pete and Ste also. Owen bailed off the top and aggravated his dodgy knee and lost the will to try again.

A bit of lunch and then over to Beatlejuice. It looked ok until people got on it and by the end of the session only Mike and Kev had got it done, commenting that it wasn't any easier than Jerry's Roof ...only 4 grades less!?

Ste got up Excalibur Direct to the left and we finished off up at Hale Bopp where several suitors got nowhere near the top and goaded me to get on it but I remained resolute to save skin for Friday.

Fri 16th

We awoke to the hottest day of the week by far and I was a bit gutted as we waited around for the Gite owner to pick up the keys and give us back the deposit.

We went for the most secure option of Cuvier with the cars full of belongings. I did a shocking 10 minute warmup and got straight on a very quiet Berezina. I did some pullups on the first holds and then got stuck in.

About 20 attempts and no matches later, I was defeated with a sore right arm from attempting to lock on a sloper of butter whilst bringing the left hand through to the good hold. As it got mad busy, we ran away to Cuvier Est.

Everyone ran around getting some mileage in and trying Festin de Piere.

Si did Duroxmanie which was really nice to see after his recent illnesses, injuries..etc. We did a couple more classics like the direct to Duroxmanie and me and Mike did the sandbag of Basses Frequences using various 7b sequences on this supposed 7a as well as a little gritlike arete downhill to the left in the Holly. I had a few goes on Michel Ange sticking the first move and getting a foot up inside but then feeling close to destroying my shoulder as I tried to lean into it, so sacked it off and dosed up on ibuprofen!

We bailed at about 3.30 to avoid the Paris rush hour and said goodbye to Kev and Luke who are over till next Tuesday. I hope the weather cools down a bit for them or it will need to be 6am starts to get up anything slopey.

A day out with the Captains of Crush and some cave action

I managed to get some cover in work over the last 2 days to avoid mind numbing cabin fever and to try putting to use my recently aquired 'font skills'.

Sun 4th April

Strong Davey P arrived at the Ivory Towers around 10ish and we headed East through rain, sun and more showery rain but once at Hathersage it was looking promising.

We had a chill looking around the Outside Sale rails picking up a bargain Prana hoody and then set off to Burbage to hook up with Ed Robinson and their mutual friend John.

Me and Dave were a tad early and it was pretty wild up at the carpark with a lot of ominous cloud closing in around us but a promising wind drying things off. We decided to go warm up around the banana finger area only to be driven back about 100 metres down the path by gale force wind and horizontal rain daggers! We fought our way back to the car using the base pads as face protection and getting totally soaked from the waist down.

We started to drive off to go get a coffee in Hathersage only for the sun to break through and the sky turn blue all in a matter of 2 minutes. How surreal! Ed rang and we turned back to wait for them at the carpark.

Once John had arrived, we all decided to go Burbage West as it was out of the worst of it. We met some hero/madman who was attempting to ground up West Side using a small rucksack from the 80's, a bit of carpet and his pet hound to spot/run for help.

We tried not to watch and got on with the thorough warmup. I got psyched for The Nose, so Ed did a demo and it received the heavy beta flash. Strong Dave looked a bit sketchy but also claimed some kind of amnesia retro flash ascent as he may have done it before. I guess it gets harder to remember as the years go by! ;)

We moved over to West Side Story and made little headway until Ed had a breakthrough moment showing some sequence involving feet across to the right and gastons to get into the 2nd RH sidepull and the LH crimp. I managed it this way once but decided to stick to plan A which found me up at the same point and then catching the 3rd RH sidepull. I barndoored a bit but the LH stayed on the crimp. I tried picking the LF up to the obvious nubbin to dyno off and then everything pinged off.

A few more goes and everyone was a little concerned about taking off the left index finger tip, so we moved across to Breakfast.

Ed provided another demo and I sketched my way up another flash involving a nice grease off slap again move near the top. Dave had an epic and eventually got it done and John also fell off leaving his footlock in which could have been truly horrific but thankfully didn't cause any further drama.

We had a play on Famous Grouse but found it a wee bit greasy, Ed managed to shin himself and we went to Burbage Bridge.

We had a play on Rocket Man, shaving more and more skin off the Right hand until my current hero strong Dave P, put on his jetpack, polished his boots and floated serenely to the top, he even contemplated a 1 armer... than woke up and topped it out ;)

I struggled on Mermaid greasing down that RH plate hold. Dave did it first go with a double or triple (I lost count!) french blow. Dismayed, I turned to the liquid chalk and thankfully it held back the tide of grease just enough to get it done.

Ed had to rush off to a party with a nice fingertape bandage covering up a big palm flapper, so the rest of us went over to Banana Finger. Me and John got up the original first try, then I lanked up the direct and finished off with the Arete on the left which was lovely.

We finished off with a pint on the Little John and got back to Merseyside barely awake and aching all over.

Mon 5th April

I woke up feeling totally ruined and thankfully Mark and Chris agreed to a late start to go the cave instead of grit as my skin was still pulsating with blood at the surface!

We stopped off in Costa and got some revival juice which left me a bit too wired in the cave shaking like mad trying to warm up and struggling to apply liquid chalk at the start of In Hell.

To sum it up, I got a bit further every redpoint with the best attempt of the day being crossing over to the pinch before the finish slot with no energy and burning hands on the brink of blood letting. I also had a play on Clyde and managed to stick the cross under move for the first time (twice!), one go managing to switch the right hand back around to set up to throw out right into Trigger Cut holds only to be greasing out the big slot, raking more skin off.

Mark had a great session, bagging Parisella's Original and Lipstick righthand and Chris looked to be making headway on Left Wall traverse.

Other events of note were Mina making Broken Heart look like a path and Kook getting very close on The Wire, shut down only by the wet fingerjug grease off.

Sadly the week ahead is work everyday, as I was itching to get back on In Hell after a couple rest days to destroy. Sunday heralds a return trip to font, so I'll try to keep the chin up! ;)

Dans le Foret pt 1

Well it was a lovely trip out in font with Mark and little Hoppo. Out of the 9 days we had out there, we climbed on 8 of them! Not a bad attempt considering the state of affairs as we left font on a very grey and showery Sunday afternoon, waving adieu to the recent arrivals.

I guess it's easiest for me to do a quick day by day summary with a pic or two for each day. The trip wasn't a crushing spree... more of a chilled return, getting used to climbing again after being either injured, having split tips or working too much the previous 3 weeks to have any kind of form going into it.

It was really enjoyable repeating some old classics and getting plenty of mileage in whilst showing the other 2 around some of my favourite venues as well as checking out new ones at the same time. It was pretty quiet wherever we went and mainly easy going foreigners to chat too (until the last couple of days when we met a couple of stereotypical bell ends from the uk - I must add they were not all bad, a couple of the Scottish guys we met at Gorge were very friendly!).

Sat 20th March

After arriving bleary eyed from a long drive down, we grabbed a couple hours sleep at the campsite and had a slow start to the day nipping to Carrefour to buy some supplies before heading over to Bas Cuvier to check out some problems seeing as it was raining. It cleared up a little bit, so we headed over to Rempart and ticked off the first 5+ in the forest l'Angle Allain, a great little technical arete that was good on both sides. We went back down and I did a lap of Duroxmanie which is absolutely superb. Mark should have done it but bailed near the top and Hoppo had a kick off after getting the shut down! ;)

The last problem we got on was La Mummery just over the way. I sketched up it before the camera could be set up and then Michael nearly did it before falling from the 2nd to last move getting his hand sequence a bit muddled. The rain then came down a bit more forceably and we went back home for the standard pasta, veg, chorizo and chopped chilli tea washed down with cheap beers! (30 for £9 euro)

Sun 21st

Apremont was the venue of choice and after the standard warmup on some classics blues we headed over to find Ju Jitsu wet which was a shame, Not to be deterred we turned around and ticked off lamentations before going around the back of the gigantic Ju Jitsu boulder to try jeremiades. I didn't realise it got a grade from standing and assumed it was a 6c from the left sitter, I overpowered it on my 2nd attempt cutting loose a couple of times and basically campussed/crawled up to lie out of breath on the top. I declared it to be a bit stiff at 6c and was relieved to find it got 7a+ from a sit when we consulted the book!

Next up was a visit to Hyperplomb which was fantastic but a bit puzzling on top. After falling off trying about 4 or 5 sequences I went around the corner and decided to give medaille en chocolat a quick go and managed to stick the top on the 2nd attempt, it's a really nice mix of delicacy followed by an unlikely catch as you fly up and out. A bit re-psyched, I returned to my original sequence on Hyperplomb and just managed to get the right foot up and in enough to stand on the obvious hold at groin height. A bit of slapping and it was in the bag.

We all ticked off the great La Lune and got a lap in on Science Friction before getting shut down on both Fil a Tordre and Onde de Choc. I got right up on top of Onde with the RH on the sloper but my left hand kept peeling off the thin sidepull in the sun. Most frustrating!

Mon 22nd

I was hoping to rest on the Monday but soon got keen to try and do an easy circuit at 91.1 as the others wanted to go there. We rocked up and the classics from 5+ to 6b were really enjoyable. We finished ticking the font essentials guide for the area and had a great baguette with several fillings.

We stopped off at Roche Aux Sabots on the way back and the others got stuck in to some problems as I decided to rest. I tired of this after about 15 minutes and went over to have a little look at Sally Goose. Psyched.

After faffing on the first move a couple of times I remembered what to do and found myself slapping at the top of the block. No matter which left shoe I tried, pushing off that left foot mono felt precarious and shit! I shinned myself from a foot pop twice in a row and gave up shortly after wondering if I'll ever make this move. (upon getting home and checking on bleau, I realised I kept my RF too low and should have bounced it up a hold to get more push and keep in contact when hitting the top!)

I went over and met the others at Le Tiroir and got a flash of Oblique, a burly start into a fun dyno to a tricky top out. They got shut down hard on Le Tiroir (a 6a featuring a crank and slap off an undercut mono!)

Last up was a trip to try red 25 the infamous l'Angle a Jean Luc. This time I was armed with some nice new Moccasyms which probably gave me a 0.01% improved chance over my old jet 7's. About 1 hour of solid effort and I somehow surmounted this nemesis utilising a shoulder wrecking palm edge mantle and a desperate deadpoint to a crimp below the top. This lowly 6c boulder was easily the hardest problem I did on the trip and took more attempts than nearly every other 7a-7c combined!


Tues 23rd

After the non restday rest, an aching team headed to Hautes Plaines. Mark destroyed Coquille on the flash which was most impressive after my epic on it a couple of years ago. I managed the low right sit link which was very fine indeed. Hoppo had another minor kick off... and we all ticked off lapin ou canard, a really fun roof up the hill a bit.


At Isatis main, there were masses of people from all corners of Europe but we reserved a ticket for le statique and the other 2 got it done whilst I took some snaps in between flashing Vin Rouge, an excellent dyno with a wild swing.

I got shutdown hard on rataplat, a 7b pillar that probably feels easier when not in direct sun and Mark did the classic double dyno thing that some fella climbs feet first on bleau.

We bailed to a quiet scene higher up and after a few goes and 1 split tip later, I managed to get l'Angle Ben's ticked. I had wanted to do this ever since I first visisted font in 07 and was psyched to get something done that is not exactly Parisella's style!

Plastikman was next up after a bit of a hike and also went down ok after a false start pullon. Mark looked good on it but gave up a bit early to save skin for the next day. We walked back towards the carpark and couldn't resist a quick go on el Poussif. I managed to get up on the pinch mantling the left arm and getting the right knee/shin on before twisting off and stacking it on to the sea of mats. The red flag was waved and we sacked it back to the car (with a brief 3 tries on Sur-Prises which was still greasy even in the dark!)

Wed 24th

I was really determined to rest today, so we headed to Cuvier and I brought along only 2 pairs of boots instead of 5. It was a busy scene with the first student arrivals and some local wads with their short shorts, pof rag and no pads ambling up some sketchy looking slabs.

After heckling little Hopski as he warmed up and got shutdown on Nescafe, we moved the pads under Marie Rose and watched him crush it first go, to the dismay of the several students who had just recieved a spanking! Good effort yoof'.

As the sky cleared and it got busier, we ran away to Rempart. I got bored of resting and warmed up on some 6b before getting Festin de Pierre 2nd go after an embarassing pullon and instant foot pop! I had to call in a bit of the overpower on the latter moves due to forgetting my glasses and being unable to spot any footholds!

The others ticked off some black problems while I chilled and we headed back to Cuvier as it began to go dark. Hoppo and Mark got close on Cortomaltese and Charcuterie respectively and I had a hard time trying to get the right heel to stick on Berezina. I reverted to the pull on and jump over the top method but found it impossible to stick the sloper. Lastly I tried a toe hook and instantly got across on to the sloper but then the toe ripped before an attempt to take it off in control could be made.

With desperation for a new tick, we ran over to the Biceps Mou roof. I tried this once and realised my left arm is still too weak to be of much use. Attention switched to Holey Moley and while the others started to fear boars and whores, I hauled my weak arse up it after receiving decent beta from a passing Swede, which felt more like the 7a it should be as opposed to my desperate 7b/+ method.

Thu 25th

It was the first day of really shit weather so we basked in the luxury of a lie in and didn't leave the campsite till about 2pm, bringing back wonderful memories of the wonderfully relaxed Magic Wood starts of last summer.

We decided to go check out the Cul de Chien hoping it would be fast to dry. A brief warmup was had on the head of the dog along with some blatant product placement photographs for mr Craven and we found our way to the roof. There was a group of unsociable Poles on it who weren't too keen on company so we played on the things to the right to get some blood in the fingers and waited patiently. About 30 seconds after they left, the sky opened and instantly soaked the top out. 2 minutes later and there was a stream of water coming over the lip as well as a storm blowing up sand into our eyes as we cowered underneath the roof!

Day over.

Fri 26th

More wet weather greeted us, so we went to Carrefour and had a leisurely start, buying some nice trousers in the decathlon sale rail and playing with all the apparatus whilst trying to avoid irking the staff.

It looked a bit better on the way out the supermarket, so we went to Gorge aux chats finding it fairly busy already.

We ticked off some excellent red problems from the essentials book like Sirocco, Gigi, dallain and maudite arete. I got a quick flash of Sa Pelle au Logis in before it pissed down for 20 minutes. We noticed the Rubis area was relatively unscathed by the rain, so rewarmed up on Travaux Forces and the others went off to find arachnee while I joined the 2 Scottish based Dave's on Rubis. After a fairly decent flash attempt, I found myself sat on my right foot trying to cross to the big pinch only to ping off violently. I stemmed the blood from the back of my right knuckles and then fell again at the same point, always leaning out too much. On the 4th go i decided to put the camera on and this extra motivation found me back up there feeling a lot more steady, I sat on my foot a bit closer in and stuck the pinch. Glory!

It rained again so we sat under Maudite arete and noticed it stayed dry. I decided to try the sitter (aka Tour d'Ivoire) and flashed it into the standup, cursed myself that I had wasted the flash as the top was soaked... then was relieved to be told by a French guy hiding under the adjacent roof that it began with the right hand lower as the FAist was not Crouch-like in proportions!

I got the move first try and then the heel popped a few moves later trying to slide the RH up to the good break. The rock dried up fairly fast, so I took a break and then had an all or nothing redpoint, getting into the standup before dismayingly powering out to the point where hanging on to two jugs was the living end! Hoppo heckled a bit and I nearly cried.

Sat 27th

The weather was a sack of shit. We walked around Elephant and then to the Dame Jouanne car park. It got worse so we decided to go to Bloc Age, the indoor wall near to Milly. As we sat outside it began to clear and I begged we go back to Gorge aux Chats which was about 5 mins away. Thankfully the others agreed and after a brief warmup I got back on Tour d'Ivoire and destroyed it first try of the day totally flash pumped! (when I say destroyed, I mean cut loose twice, whimpered and blew wind out my arse whilst barely avoiding dabbing the rock and pads by a matter of centimetres and snatched my way up jugs to victory!).

It was possibly my first 7C in font, so a nice one to get done too, being good moves and aesthetic - just a shame about the encroaching block and the finger numbing undercut crimp you crank on in the roof.

We did various controversial versions of Greve des Nains and moved to 95.2.

We met some hostile Scots who blanked us save for 1 at Retour aux Sources so kept walking to Duel Dans la Lune block.

A brief play on Rudeboy and I thought the last move was ok going LH up. From the start it proved a different matter as I dropped this last move about 5 times crying in desperation as to how it could possibly merit a mere 7a! I then did the move going right hand up as a rockover slap and after a bit more puntering finally latched it as two of the aforementioned scots turned up to geg in.

Duel dans la lune went down ok and we left them to it, moving on to Retour. I watched little Hoppo have a go and then attempted the retro flash using about 100 intermediate holds and fell to the floor in a right state, realising this was not the way I tried it last time!

Mark showed the way with a more direct method and I soon topped it out... what a great set of moves.

Little Mike got so so close but couldn't quite get his left foot up on to the big crimp to stand to the top. We went on a mission, found Ange Naif and it started to spit, then rain... then piss down. Day ender.


Sun 27th

It rained heavily, so we sacked it back to Liverpool.

It was a fun trip with plenty of good easy classics ticked as well as something I really wanted to do in Rubis and a surprise 7c that wasn't even on the shortlist of things to try.

The other guys had a good time getting to visit a new area nearly every day and also getting their first 7a's in the forest.

There is a fair bit of footage, so either myself or Mark will have to convert these annoying .TOD files into something useful that can be edited and made into a short flick on vimeo!

It was nice to get back to font and climb on amazing rock, just a shame that it took about 6 days to feel like I could climb again after having less than ideal preparation in the run up.