4th May > Projects

Noodles > Projects / Guides: I've been back in town for less than an hour and i'm already locked to the PC again.
Myself and Eve headed off to the country for the weekend, usual stuff, being at one with mother nature and drinking some beer... just chilling... little did we know what would happen, and what we would find.

The details are sketchy because that's the way we're going to keep them for a while but we found rock, lots of rock. Virgin rock, unbolted and unclimbed, and no we won't tell you where until we bolt it and then get some FA's (First assents) on the stuff!

Guidewise, I was worried that because of the lack of ventilation and the weather getting hotter that the shoes were causing a dry skin problem between my toes. So I didn't wear them for a bit and then took them away this weekend... no problems, some of the rock was wet / mossy / covered in crap or all three and the Guides never slipped once, and we were climbing some pretty sketchy stuff. Impressed? I continue to be, the shoes are covered in mud but are still performing well.

Projects: Well the Pojects got me a FA or a route called CHR (yeah... Climbing Hold review), it's only a V3 and took less than a total of two hours to get up (not including the cleaning).
If the shoes had been stiffer and less sensitive I don't think I could have felt the small footholds that I was standing on!! Here's the route and my smiley face going for the slap to the top out:

Overall the sensitive nature of these shoes helped me, from being able to smear on NOTHING for the start to being able to tell me my foot was on something that I couldn't see when my feet were under the bulge of the rock. I nabbed a FA of something that is likely V3, so my weekend is pretty well complete! All the CHR team has to do now is go and bolt the other three crags that have never been climbed upon... I think there will be a lot of updates once we head on up there again.

(Oh yeah, the top our is on the left of the picture, I took the harder way out, rather than a mantle onto the moss covered face :P)