unrepeatable

hey,
went camping at the hill for the weekend.sat was the best day ive had there (conditions wise)super cold overnight, clear skys and snow on the mountains.i was just easing my finger back in so did heaps of pre requisites.and ended up sending the unrepeatable!!!soo stoked.today was wet so came home.apparently you dont need permission for flock anymore!so thats pretty cool.

heres a photo of flock at sunset.
catch ya

Font is wikkid. Did I mention Font is wikkid?

Yep, it's all true Font is wikkid. Even with my bung ankle holding me back Jo and I had a great day. Boulders everywhere, problems everywhere, lovely forest and only a little bit of French Poo around to avoid stepping in.

Me in the forest on top of a boulder. Lovely day!

Tried all kinds of problems. Faces, overhangs, aretes (no falls and ankle not buggered anymore!) but didn't want to risk another bad landing so just took it easy. Hardest problem I got must have only been around V3 but did loads of V1's and 2's that were super cool.

Jo had a great day as well cranking it out in her new pair of Cobras from Telemark-Prynees. Nice place to start getting into bouldering I think!

Me on some problem on some boulder somewhere at Curiver....(there was just so many of them!)

Some stuff went super easy and other stuff that was meant to be easy as I just could not touch! Sequence stuff I guess. Some of the easier problems had really badly polished foot holds but just crank hard and it's sweet as. Will be going back sometime in the future. Be great to get a H-Town massive crew together over there and show the Frence (they were all super, super strong chain smoking sending machines that I saw) how to do it. Who is keen! I've got all the beta sorted on how to get there, where to stay, how to get around etc. Nice!

Me on a cool V3-4'sih problem (sorry about not being able to rotate the photo before I loaded it up!) Nice throw to a crappy edge then crank up and over the top to glory and try not to fall off!

So in summary - Font is wikkid. We were lucky with the weather. Friday was nice to climb but got pretty warm. Saturday it pissed down with rain (we went to Paris) and this morning it dried out enough for a couple of hours but looked like it was going to rain again as we left.

Got 5 days in the States now (Arizona and then Las Vegas) then home so will see most of you on Tuesday the 16th down at the wall aye!

D

fricken wikkid conditions today, super cold and dry, getting closer to snake eyes, derek showed me this new hold in the dish.then i tryed energy follows thought, got into the two finger undercling, and lunged for the sloper and fukn pulled my tendon.(ring finger),felt like a bolt of electricity shooting up my arm.i can still crimp, just cant hang anything.so slabs for me until bev comes down!when hopefully be right...but nows your chance to train hard!!

derek did a new v10ish at spittle, jump to a mono!the fukn man.

later.

Shitty big walls

haha karl gave me this photo, its steve taking a crap at camp IV on el cap!

Hola and Bonjour From Europ

Ok lads,

Here's a quick update on what we've been up to over here.

Since my last post we've been through France, down into Spain, survived a 3 day spanish wedding, did some climbing, some skiing, some sight seeing, some ski touring and generally had a all round sweet as time.

So where to start...

Spent a few days in Grandada checking out the place. Pretty cool. Got some nice photos. The wedding was nuts. 3 days of party party party. Even did some bouldering on some limestone boulders down the road from the hotel which was cool . However it was the sharpest limestone I had ever climbed on. Insane!









Then we rolled onto a place called Albarracin to hook up with dirty old Stefan for a good old session. What can I say about Albarracin - it's wikkid. Sandstone boulders in a forest, loads of quality problems, steep, slabs, you name it it's got it. The only bummer.....did my ankle on the first hard problem of the morning. A high ball V5 arete and you guessed it - I peeled off the very top sloper holds (with a scream as well) and just the way I hit the mat nailed my left ankle with a compression shock. Could not really climb much after that so took some photos and hung out and enjoyed the place. The photo on the side is the V5 that I peeled off...pretty much from that top out move! God dam arete problems with heal clamps!!!!

Stefan is good, living like a bum but strong as always.
My bung ankle....













After Albarrcin we drove up to France and hooked up with my ski and shoe pimp Neil in Ax-les-Themas and had a wikkid time ski touring around a Mountain called Pugemal with a bunch of crazy brits which is a whole story in itself. Over 1000 meters of touring and some wikkid runs down. Ankle was ok strapped into a ski boot but after 7 hours of skiing it was getting pretty sore...Also picked up some gear and a new pair of shoes for Will. (since you've done a V8 the price just went up 20% bro)











We are currently in Chamonix for a few days checking it all out. Might try to ski again tommrrow. Check the pic. Rode a cable car up to 3800 meters this morning. It's Mount Blanc in the back ground!

Next stop FONT! Ankle should be ok to climb by then. Little Dave might come across from the UK for a couple of days so fingers crossed for the weather!


Word up and see most of ya when we are back on after the 15th of May!

D