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Chris Climbing: Up Down and Up again
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012. Up Down and Up again. To quote Isaac Newton (no relation) " What goes up must come down! This law of Physics is something as climbers we are all too aware of, we continue to invest huge amounts of time and energy into resisting gravity whilst travelling over vertical or overhanging surfaces. Only to then submit to falling off or lowering back down to the ground once at an arbitrary point has been reached. Will expand on these ideas and practices. In November I had started to ...
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Chris Climbing: February 2012
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Wednesday, 15 February 2012. Up Down and Up again. To quote Isaac Newton (no relation) " What goes up must come down! This law of Physics is something as climbers we are all too aware of, we continue to invest huge amounts of time and energy into resisting gravity whilst travelling over vertical or overhanging surfaces. Only to then submit to falling off or lowering back down to the ground once at an arbitrary point has been reached. Will expand on these ideas and practices. In November I had started to ...
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Chris Climbing: March 2012
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Thursday, 22 March 2012. Peñon d'Ifach 12hr Rally 2012. Peñon 12hr rally was approaching fast, it was to be my third time competing in this event, I knew what was in store, what torture lay ahead, could I sleep? No chance. My mind continually raced, visualising each climb we'd planned, each pitch and each move! Over and over. Too many unknowns, so many variables out of my control and so much time and opportunity for things to go very well or very bad. Will it be too hot? 20 minutes later I'm greeting my ...
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Chris Climbing: Rainy Day and Glory for Blasco
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Monday, 3 October 2011. Rainy Day and Glory for Blasco. Let's go cragging, oh it's raining. Whilst the UK was enjoying the "Summer part 2", we had some end of summer thunderstorms. So where to go? Criteria: steep, dry in the rain, new and not too far. Result = Gaz Parry. S Crag X - somewhere in the Costa Blanca ;). Gaz has done a fantastic job in opening this new and "futuristic" crag with over 20 routes mostly high 7's up to uber projects. Sergi approaching the crux sequence on "Luz del Sol" (hard) 7c.
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Chris Climbing: April 2012
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Tuesday, 17 April 2012. 12hr Climbing Rally - Leiva - 2012. The 2nd round of the Spanish cup this year was held on the walls of Leiva in the Sierra Espuña, Nr Murcia. This was the first time a 12hr Rally had been run at Leiva and saw 16 teams take part. Above, video of the Leiva Rally. With very little time to prepare for this Rally our strategy was way off. We did enough routes 8 (only 7 counted as we finished the last one 30 seconds over time! Leiva (2nd round) Results - 31st March 2012:. View my compl...
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Chris Climbing: Summer's over
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Sunday, 9 October 2011. The Summer is over, temperatures are great, skies are Blue and the rock is dry. Hardest part of the day is deciding where to climb! And which projects to get on. Blasco starting up "Momo". Man Flu hit me today, so feeling weak and feeble I ventured a full 3 minute drive to L'ocaive and surprised myself by doing an old 7b there called "Momo" which had shut me down several times in the past. Blasco lowering off "Momo" 7b, L'Ocaive. Great to see Miguel. Miguel on the 7c/7c variation.
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Chris Climbing: September 2011
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Friday, 23 September 2011. The Season is underway. With the season under way I've decided to start a blog to record my climbing adventures, travels, progression and philosophy. Last season was hampered with recovering from injury (torn ligament in my elbow) and a highly dangerous virus called "Weekly Overload Recreational Killer" (WORK). Today we were back in my local crag L'ocaive with Nacho (above) enjoying "cooler" temps and eyeing up some short term projects to get us back on form.
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Chris Climbing: November 2011
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Wednesday, 9 November 2011. Albarracin - the Holy Land. This weekend we paid homage to " the Holy Land. Of Albarracin. The Bouldering mecca of Spain, situated near Teruel in Aragon, just 2hrs drive from Valencia. What a change this place has seen in such a short time, to be fair it was a holiday weekend so naturally more people than normal but even so all the car parks were rammed to capacity and every sector full of people. Including climbing in banned sectors! With Rock and Sun. View my complete profile.
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Chris Climbing: Peñon d'Ifach 12hr Rally 2012
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Thursday, 22 March 2012. Peñon d'Ifach 12hr Rally 2012. Peñon 12hr rally was approaching fast, it was to be my third time competing in this event, I knew what was in store, what torture lay ahead, could I sleep? No chance. My mind continually raced, visualising each climb we'd planned, each pitch and each move! Over and over. Too many unknowns, so many variables out of my control and so much time and opportunity for things to go very well or very bad. Will it be too hot? 20 minutes later I'm greeting my ...
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Chris Climbing: October 2011
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Sunday, 9 October 2011. The Summer is over, temperatures are great, skies are Blue and the rock is dry. Hardest part of the day is deciding where to climb! And which projects to get on. Blasco starting up "Momo". Man Flu hit me today, so feeling weak and feeble I ventured a full 3 minute drive to L'ocaive and surprised myself by doing an old 7b there called "Momo" which had shut me down several times in the past. Blasco lowering off "Momo" 7b, L'Ocaive. Great to see Miguel. Miguel on the 7c/7c variation.