Posts Tagged ‘bouldering’
Indoor Competitions. Not Just for Super Heroes
Ever seen the adverts for your local walls bouldering competition? My regular venue, The Climbing Depot has just finished it’s summer bouldering league. The basics were 30 problems from very easy (V0) to very hard (V11) with one month to complete as many as you can in the least number of goes, the quicker you [...]
A Long Weekend Bouldering in Font – Doing it on a Budget
Is a long weekend really long enough to enjoy the magic of Fontainebleau bouldering on a budget? There was only really one way to answer this; road trip! Thursday evening after work I packed up the car with a tent, roll mat, sleeping bag, BBQ, Solutions and chalk bucket and set out for a long [...]
The Almscliff Rite of Passage
The iconic crag of Almscliff is high on the hillside near Otley, home to many three star classic gritstone routes such as Great Western HVS 5a , Demon Wall HVS 5 and Wall Of Horrors E4 6a. However, it’s the bouldering that we’re interested in. The crag features many a route that could contribute to [...]
10 Tips to Improve Your Bouldering
This article won’t make you improve your bouldering out of all proportion, overnight, but it might help you to start the process of improvement. I recently found myself in a bit of a rut with my climbing, a bit of a sticking point in my development. If that sounds like a familiar feeling to you, [...]
Bouldering in The Lake District – The Langdale Boulders
The Lake District is known by many as the home of rock climbing with some of the original ‘mountain routes’ being given first ascents by the pioneers of old. The Lake District is still extremely popular among the trad-climbing fraternity, loyal to the trad ethic and unique style found in the area. The Lakes are [...]
Summer Ladder competition 2011 at Climb Newcastle
If you didn’t take part last year the ladder is effectively a 12 week competition, with four weeks to try each of 3 problem sets. You hand your scorecard in at the end of every session and we keep the scores live on the website (that’s the ladder part as you can watch yourself move [...]
ASBO 2011 Results from Climb Newcastle
At 8:30pm the scores were in and finalists taken to isolation. Lining up in the girls final were reigning champion Joanne Quinan and 2009 champion Karin Magog, with them Libby Barrow (USA), Becky Good (who had made the long trip from The Climbing Hangar in Liverpool with fellow Merseysiders in Jean, their very small car) [...]
Bouldering in the Lake District: Kentmere
The Lake District is known by many as the home of rock climbing with some of the original ‘mountain routes’ being given first ascents by the pioneers of old. The Lake District is still extremely popular among the trad-climbing fraternity, loyal to the trad ethic and unique style found in the area. The Lakes are [...]
Awesome video from last year’s Cliffhanger Bouldering World Cup
This is an amazing video from Posing Productions. Check out Adam Ondra climbing at the 2010 Cliffhanger Bouldering World Cup. There’s some incredible stuff here from all the featured competitors. Really inspiring Thanks to Heason Events, the organisers of Cliffhanger for showing this to us.
An introduction to outdoor bouldering
So you’ve been indoor bouldering for a little while and are getting pretty good, your moving pretty well on the problems. You might even be starting to push your grade a little. What’s next? The next logical step is to voyage onto some real problems outside, on real rock – where there are no colored [...]
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