Sends in the LOC

John on When Stars Attack


John sending Dynamitus (V8)

A small crew of climbers from Fredericton was down to visit and get a tour of some of the bouldering around Halifax. I think everyone had some notable sends to put on their tick lists. John Bowles had an awesome day sending Dynamitus (V8) and Kleos (V11). He did both quite quickly with Kleos probably only taking about and hour of work - I will take some of the credit for giving perfect beta! Ha! We visited Nouveau Riche, Corn and Bung, Scoop, Area 51, and the House boulder.

My goal for the day was to climb as many problems I as could in the areas we went to. I think it was probably one of my better days in LOC.

My tick list for the day looked something like this:
Kleos (v11) - but I jumped off after matching the blocky jug...
Ressurection (v10)
Dynamitus SDS (V9?)
Dynamitus (V8)
Back on Track (v8)
When Stars Attack (V7)
Force du Sang (V7)
Imogen (V7)
Hoofmaker (V6)
La Vache quie rit? (V6)
Kirby's Jug Prob. (V6)
Can't trust skinny people (V6)
Joe Boxer (v6)
Pirranha (v5)
Captain Hook (V5)
Bop Gun (V5)
JACKS arrete (V4)
La Vie en Rose (v3)
Nouveau Riche(V1)
The Preview (V3)
Corn Holio (V3)
and some other easier problems...my skin was pretty trashed, but not as bad as Liam's!

Mates of State

Last night Krissy and I headed out to check out Mates of State at the Paragon. The show was part of the Halifax Pop Explosion festival. We went over early enough to check out a band from Iceland playing just before Mates of State. They were pretty good, though definitely no Sigur Ros (another Icelandic band). The Mates of State show was awesome - they played sooo many songs with basically no stopping at all. If you weren't there you missed out big time.

check them out: http://www.myspace.com/matesofstate

here is some low quality footage from the show....

Fall has Arrived!

Green Jug (v6)

Krissy sending Green Jug at Grover

Ben on the Fine Line (v11ish)

Ben sending The Fine Line on his first go of the day

Halifax Super Projects

Well, I finally got a chance to check out Bully Wall. It definitely lived up to its name. This is one of the most impressive walls I have ever seen in Nova Scotia, or anywhere for that matter. It is really big, really steep, and really hard. It looks like there are going to be a couple of lines on it that are possible. They will definitely be some of the best lines around when they do go. I'm not sure if the photos actually do this wall justice - it is crazy!



Ben pooping his pants...

Ben on a "little" warm-up next to the main wall

Ben on the direct start to the wall - the right arrete
looks like it will be the "easiest", the centre line is
insane!

Krissy on the Bully Wall Traverse

Direct start - the first few moves
on their own are double digit...

couple of photos

Nothing really to to report on the climbing front - we are way to busy with school right now...