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Rod's Euro 2009 - Trip Report ~ with updates! 25-Jul-2009 At 7:27:22 PM rod

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I dunno Mike, I've been setting PB's on a regular basis since May 1 and the only thing I can put it down to is the mental break from work...maybe the extra booze helps. We're in the Golden Triangle but we're sticking to spots which had former glory and are now a little passed by in the media, one thing we've noticed is that crack routes are generally older and nails hard whereas face climbs in the same area's are relatively soft but its a long way between bolts.

Just spent a week bouldering as I let the back of the hands heal from Etat de Choc, 6C's are going flash, 7A's after a bit of work and occasionally bagged a PB matcher. One day I hope to boost my sport climbing performance into the true 7c's to match it but so far it just doesn't seem to translate - either the bouldering grades are consistently soft or the route grades are consistently hard around here.

TDF was a festival atmosphere and G caught Cat Empire in Lucerne last night, just gathering some Grimsel info and coordinating agenda's for a run up some of Christian and Regis's new routes out there...these guys are always good for a scare.

Some photos:

Bivvy spot

The ledge after the 7b pitch

The route at the end of the day

Finally a link to a photo of the line from a previous run up another of the routes, its the crack to the right of the sunlit arete:

http://outdoors.webshots.com/photo/2978639560048752298waMZaB