Tuesday, September 20, 2011

Mont-roig boulder crushing!

With Tash's back still giving her problems, meaning that climbing and even belaying weren't possible, we decided to head out to the local boulders at Mont-roig so I could climb and Tash could have a hobble around (as well as being on photo duties!). It's somewhere that I'd been once before but couldn't really get psyched by - the rock's quite soft and sandy and most of the problems are bum-scraping sit starts!

However, luckily there are a few worthwhile sectors with more solid rock and some pretty decent eliminates and link-ups and also one totally independent fridge-hugging prow problem on perfectly clean and solid rock. The best thing is that it feels pretty damn hard so it'll be a good training project, and only ~10mins from the house!


The "hanging church" at Mont-roig.




A bit of bush-whacking in between the problems!





Some of the amazing features in the rock - a sign of the durability of the rock here!





Honeycomb rock at one of the good steep sectors - luckily the rock here is actually solid!





Awesome steep roof with plenty of eliminates and link-ups.




New project - cool prow line (Contracorriente)





Hard moves in the middle of the traverse.
 



Final fridge-hugging moves.

1 comment:

  1. Shit don't be boulder crushing.. We wouldn't want you to be strong for the stag! Have you booked it btw?

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