Wednesday, November 25, 2009

Skills Inventory 2nd Ascent Video

Here is a video Ghislain did of me making the second ascent of Skills Inventory (v8) in the LOC last weekend.

Zig TV Blog:
http://zigtv.blogspot.com/

(OT's - yes that's you Krissy, Ashley, and Vanessa - get back to work and stop procrastinating!)

Saturday, November 21, 2009

LOC Saturday Session

A few photos from our day out at LOC. This was probably one of the biggest groups of climbers I have ever been out there with. Really fun day!

Krissy finally got to climb with some girls. Thanks Kate and Jess - Krissy says you guys were very motivating.


Aidas at work


Kate in pain!


Mick on Loose Shoes (v5)


Nate on Tacky (v5)


The Gang


Krissy on Vedges (v3)


Ghislain on Skills Inventory (v8)


Ben on Skills Inventory (v8)


Skills Inventory (v8)


Ghislain taking i pod video


Krissy on Joe Boxer (v6)


Ben on a project...

Monday, November 16, 2009

Warning 8a.nu related - if you don't like it, stop reading now

During our Europe trip Krissy and I started logging our ascents on www.8a.nu. Seeing as we were traveling for quite a while we piled up quite a few routes and problems. 8a has a function that ranks you in your country, North America and the world. You can view just routes, boulders or combine the two. I deal with numbers all day, so here are some of the more interesting numbers I looked at. Basically it all means nothing, but it was interesting to see how close some of the numbers were between us.

Krissy
Canada
Boulder: 5
Route: 22
Combined: 7

North America
Boulder:32
Route:78
Combined:18

World
Boulder:71
Route:395
Combined:51

Ben
Canada
Boulder:4
Route:15 (at least a couple of women sport climb WAY harder!)
Combined:2

North America
Boulder:23
Route:77
Combined:18

World
Boulder:42
Route:422
Combined:50







Sunday, November 15, 2009

The Tombstone


Tombstone (V7) photo: Aidas Rygelis

Krissy and I also competed in the first of the 2009/2010 Canadian Tour de Bloc Bouldering competitions last weekend. It was a fun weekend. We had a small crew of climbers from Fredericton stay with us for the weekend. Krissy and I each ended up second in our categories. I was definately a little rusty on competition climbing as I haven't really spent any time in a gym since last April. Krissy was so, so close to winning the whole thing - just one little mistake cost her.

After the comp we went out with a big group of climbers and ate a bunch of sushi. The sushi was followed up by ice cream at COLD STONES! If you have not been there - go - asap...