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I started this one at the end of last summer, but no matter how long i spent at it I couldn’t get something that felt “finished”.
Nearly a year later I decided to revisit it and I reckon I’m finally done with it :D
crit welcome =]
I really enjoyed working on this one today.
Fun little doodles from last night
Yesterday I went climbing with some new found friends. We went to a local climbing spot in cougar canyon which was SWEET! I’m not really in the habbit of climbing with the proper gear; ropes, shoes, harness’, chalk bag, etc. However a few months ago I bought the basic essentials and climbed at some indoor walls 2 or 3 times in preparation for coming out here to Canada.
Free solo climbing is awesome fun, and I love to feel so close to death, something I feel (with regards to climbing) very capable of doing safely. If that makes sense. It’s all about knowing your ability extremely well, and having a really good judge of what hold and grip can take your weight. Free soloing also opens up a rather substantial reservoir of energy. It’s the whole “if i don’t do this right, then I die” factor. It makes a huge difference which I definitely notice the lack of when climbing with ropes.
However, climbing with ropes is awesome too. First of, it enables me to try things I wouldn’t normally try, I can experiment more with various techniques and holds, and I can also attempt rock faces I wouldn’t normally attempt. It’s ultimately is the better way to improve at climbing.
So yesterday we went out to cougar canyon, which was only a short walk from where we parked. we set up some ropes and began climbing some 20meter(I guess) climbs. There was a cool cave like overhang bit that I wanted to play in, but there where a whole load of wasps hanging about which put me of considerably. On the other side of the waspy area there was a 30meter climb, which I really wanna go back and try again, as I totally failed it yesterday. Orion beat it in 4 minutes! FOUR! That seems pretty fast to me but he wasn’t happy with it.
There are more pictures in my photo’s page.
Making our way there
Free soloing, yay!
The bigger climb
Well done Jaz!
man! I wanna go climbing again soon!
