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20/01/2024

Took advantage of the cold snap to tick off another Peak District classic.

Zippy’s Traverse 7B /V8 ☑️

A series of sequency moves on slopers, leading to what has to be one of the more spectacular finishes to a boulder problem.

Super.B for the win on this one ✌️

18/01/2024

Quick hit on the grit last weekend.

Headed to the far end of Cubar to escape the crowds and found what must be one of the most board style problems on grit! Loving the crimps and swings on this one 💃

Team send of Petit Jesu 7a / V6 ☑️ ☑️

Any other board style grit problems we should be checking out?

03/12/2023

The grit slap 👋

Re-opened the account on this one, this time some new beta seems to be working to gain the lip. It’s a problem that has frustrated and eluded me in the past, mainly as I don’t have the arm span to do the crux the ‘standard’ way to gain the nose.

Some extra hip flexibility seems to be helping so far (thanks to the Lattice plan) which wasn’t there a couple of years ago

Coming back for this one

📷 Captain Hook

Sticky Sirius rubber from
and much needed skin repairing from

26/11/2023

Climbs are a bit like dating

I’ve fantasised about this problem for many years, and finally plucked up the courage to ask it out last week. We wined and dined, and then rather unexpectedly found ourselves in the afterglow in bed.

All over too quickly, a flash in the pan, the one night stand. Rather than getting the full on relationship experience I thought I might from this one, it all ended before it really began. Satisfied and mildly disappointed at the same time

Asylum Sika 7B / V8 at Burbage North

Boost for the win on that sloper crimp ✌️

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11/10/2023

After spending much of the past year training for bouldering and working boulder projects, I seem to have ended up on a lot of sport routes 🤣

This one was fun to piece together though - feeling hard and impossible at first and needing a LOT of beta tweaks after numerous falls on redpoints, it finally all flowed together and was a real pleasure to climb

A route that kept throwing move after move at you without any real let up, it’s been one of the funnest routes to work and put together

Psyched to finally clip the chains last week ✌️

Ring of Fire 7c+ 🔥

Thanks for the redpoint psyche and photos and all the soft catches

Thank you and for the sticky rubber feet, and for the silky smooth rope

01/10/2023

I’ve been sport climbing around the Peak for several years now, but I’ve always been slightly intimidated by ‘The Tor’. A combination of getting shut down early on in any attempts at routes, along with its hugely historic bank of hard climbs (and hard climbers milling around), has meant I’ve been reluctant to pick a project here.

However, as the evenings were getting shorter, we started to think that the Tor might hold an ideal project line for us: quick post-work sessions before winter fully sets in.

We tried this line at the height of the last mini heatwave (mistake), but with most of the sequence pieced together. I was keen to come back in ‘good connies’ to see if I could nail down the final crux moves. I was hooked.

A few sessions later and I found myself clipping the chains. A cracking little route with ace climbing throughout

Ring of Fire 7c+

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26/08/2023

Putting the new rope to good use with a double send for us on Harderobe 7c+ ✅✅

Sophie’s first 7c+ sport route.
Not bad for someone who has spent the summer focusing on bouldering projects!

Unusual for us to find a climb at the top of our grade that suits both of us. A tough first half on super thin crimps into some big moves for the second half.

Onto the next project, to see if we can get that illusive 8a before the end of the season? 🤔

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17/08/2023

More time on the project.

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03/08/2023

Anybody else fed up with the weather? 🙋🏻‍♀️

A few snaps from (give him a follow) before monsoon season arrived. Can’t wait for another go at this, once it dries out……..

08/07/2023

Forwards or backwards?

We have both spent most of the last few months projecting climbs. Choosing to dedicate so much time and effort into just a couple of climbs is always going to take its toll both physically and even more so mentally. It is so easy to forget the progress made and focus on the failures, the frustration of never finishing a climb. But they are not failures they are inevitable steps along the road to success. A road that doesn’t run straight. Something that I am regularly having to remind myself of recently and is going to make the success all the sweeter

25/06/2023

Great weekend ticking the latest project and testing some new sample shoes.

Stone The Loach 7c ✅
Unparallel Qubit 🔥🔥🔥

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10/05/2023

A look back at our Easter 🐣 trip to Fontainebleau this year, it already seems a long time ago!

It was a bit of a mixed bag of emotions over the trip. I’d been training for months leading into the trip, and was starting to see the benefits translating back onto the wall. But I had wanted to stay away from grade chasing, and really wanted it to just be a fun trip. So while I was trying not to go into the trip with expectations, I think I was just kidding myself and a part of me had set the bar high 🤦🏻‍♀️ It wasn’t really about hitting a certain grade, more going in to (hopefully) prove to myself that I had gotten better over the years since we’d last been to Font.

We had a one week quick hit of the forest planned, and knowing how long it usually takes me to project and send stuff (read multiple days/weeks), I did feel the pressure to climb something I hadn’t done before.

The rest of the story is being told in a new video we have out on our YouTube channel (link in bio), if you’ve read this far, and you’re curious to hear the rest, I hope you enjoy it!

https://youtu.be/eW4eXrympmo

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