Excited to see 'Going Coastal' will be playing at the @mdffest in July! Thanks again to Simon and Hannah for having us down for what has been a super enjoyable and rewarding project:)
Maybe the standout new route of the year so far for me. Mahogany Float Plane. Not necessarily the best route but a good experience. Magic to find it, figure out the line, climb it and move on. Really grateful to have some pics as well :)
📸 @alexjhartshorne
Some pics of Alex and I on a new route called 'Double Denim Utopia' we did a few days back during a voyage in the Mediterranean. Its quite a unique granite wall with a veneer of limestone on the second half, possibly formed from the lithification of calcareous sands deposited at the top of the cliff during the last ice age. Thats my guess anyway
Still so impressed with trad routes at killiecrankie. Finally got around to doing Niels Tietze and liz Ohs route 'lion heart'. Another steep, well protected traddy number with lots of knee bars, heal toe cams, toe hooks and a miraculous thread at the crux.
📸hannah vasiliades
Looking back through my cape raoul archive for @zenandtheartofclimbing Ryan Siacci's 50 classics book i found these pics from a misty Christmas day a few years back.
A few snippets from yesterday. Absolute rope faff shenanigans linking arrested development into talk is cheap aka 'burning bridges'. On paper was about 15 pitches but because i was solo and didn't have to worry about drag it was a few less. The other option if you want to climb talk is cheap but dont want to rappel the route is to swim to the base of ive hear it all before then do a long leftward traversing trad pitch into the start :)
After much city induced gravity I got out of town around 9 yesterday morning and made an impromptu visit to cape Raoul. I ended up doing kim ladiges and liz ohs new routes Air chrysalis (22) and hard boiled wonderland (24) on the scoured west side of the cape. Both pitches were unreal especially the chrysalis. For some reason its been a rare thing of late to go and climb a route that is given 3 stars and actually find that it Is!
Been trying a bit of lead rope solo recently. Its a good way of adding a couple of grades to things you already cant climb. Or a good way of climbing twice as few pitches in double the amount of time. I definitely like it occasionally but i seem to be doing it a-lot.
