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#climbing

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Ives

Excellent weather for #climbing yesterday in one of the most beautiful areas of #Belgium, near the French border.
This crag is a bit weird, it's basically a hole in the ground somewhere in a forest (see last picture). It's again an old quarry; this one with near vertical walls with some relief for feet and small cracks and holes for handholds.
Really nice and quiet spot that's well bolted and has holds that haven't been polished like some other crags here.

Two vertical rock walls, about 50m apart. One bathed in sunlight, the other in the shadow. Trees are growing on top of the walls and a nice blooming tree can be seen at the end of the hole bounded by the walls.
A person climbing the sunlit wall from the previous picture, seen from below. A rope attached to bolts via quickdraw leads up to the person. The wall is full of small dimples and some trees and a blue sky can be seen at the top.
A similar view of the sunlit wall as in the first picture, but from another angle. In the middle of the wall there's a 8 by 8m cutout where a large beam-shaped part of the rock has been quarried. The sides of the cutout are lined with vertical cracks that can be used to climb.
A Google Maps view of a forest with a rectangular black hole in the middle.
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jay_climbs

When I got to the gym I felt a bit sluggish. After warming up I was tired. Kinda hard to get going.
In the end I did manage a couple of reds, this is one of them! It took me a while to stick the dyno, but I flashed the rest. (although the first time I stuck the dyno, my heel slipped later on)

GIF
#bouldering#climbing#escalade
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Hanne Jokinen
Outdoor season opened yesterday at Mustavuori, Tampere (see my bright blue pants in the upper right corner). Climbed easy sport routes, most of them in a top rope. Heroically I did try to lead the very first route, but rock felt so different after long winter months indoors that my nerves gave up after four quickdraws. But it was a good try, all things considered.

Today everything hurts, but who cares. 😁

#climbing #rockclimbing #kiipeily #deartrainingdiary
#deartrainingdiary
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JCMcHammy
So there was actually climbing on the Nice climbing trip, too (between the rain... which managed to be both more and less than expected...). La Turbie, as it turns out, felt really kinda sandbagged grade-wise (or maybe I was just sucking?)! But then the fun is in the movement and unlocking the puzzle, not the grade and it was a great trip with a fun bunch; Alesia Sidliarevich (with the excellent catches), Helen Finn, Carole Dawson, and Roy.
#climbing #ClimbingIsMyPassion #SportClimbing #LimestoneClimbing #Nice #LaTurbie
Top! two climbers at the top of a limestone cliff, framed against a blue sky
A climber on a limestone wall, cloudy sky above the crag, top right to bottom left
A climber looking up, midway up a limestone cliff, the belayer on a ledge at the bottom. Another climber sits on the rope to the left.
3 days, 3 crags in one A picture of the crags at La Turbie labelled as La Roche á roche on the left, La Loubiére middle and La Dalle á l'Oiseau right
#laturbie
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Ives

Bit of a miserable day of #climbing in #Beez, #belgium yesterday. Got spooked while leading the first easy climb. Continued on top-rope and couldn't finish any of the subsequent routes without hangdogging. Frustrating...
It's a style of climbing that's not really my favorite though. Slightly overhanging with lots of pockets and you can't really see which are the good ones until you move to them. So lots of trying, retreating, etc. Which requires more strength than I have available.

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devnull

Thinking of dabbling into trad, looking to build out a rack on an as-needed basis.

Climbing here mostly in Southern Ontario, so limestone blocks along the Niagara escarpment.

Some light research suggests I should:

  • favour passive pro over cams (slimestone, etc.)
  • Buy offset nuts

... Then the topics seem to always drift into a discussion about the merits of tricams lol

Looking at the dragons in size 2-4 to start.

Am I on the right track?

Also I'm legit afraid of using the #nuts or #rack tags.

#cams#climbing#limestone
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