climbing pics

[Ride-or-die]

well when im not spending all my time at a poker table i like to go climbing, indoors at the mo but i hope to learn how to top rope and lead climb and then go abroad and climb some real chunks of rocks.

heres some pics of me, im doing middle graded climbs, so i have a long way to go yet.

this climb is highly graded as overhangs at the top...
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f287/jaslander1983/IMGP0400.jpg

same wall, different day, different route....
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f287/jaslander1983/IMGP0411.jpg

http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f287/jaslander1983/IMGP0406.jpg

this next one is in a room called the monkey room, the entire ceiling is covered with grabs and is as hard as buggery.....
http://i49.photobucket.com/albums/f287/jaslander1983/IMGP0416.jpg



i hope u like em

[r6paul]

I wanna play, esp in the monkey room!!!

Looks like a blast!

[fall off]

oh to be young again remember doing all that, used to like the coming down bit better, as long as the strap was in the right place .. oh ouch etc

[DoodleBug]

Mile End mate?

Many a happy hour spend swinging around the monkey room. Have they still got the bat cave, and have you tried the Castle, bloody good there.

[Ride-or-die]

Mile End mate?

Many a happy hour spend swinging around the monkey room. Have they still got the bat cave, and have you tried the Castle, bloody good there.


yes indeed mile end, a fair way to travel but its meant to be the best along with the castle, never been to the castle tho as i hear its ropes only, but then ive also heard its not, know knows. i dont use ropes but i plan on finding out for sure and if you dont have to use ropes i shall have a look at the castle.

whats the bat cave? yeah the monkey rooms just been re-done, as you can see in the picture, the other half of the room is having the ceiling rebuilt. i take it you used to climb there as u must have recognised it, do you still climb?

[Dan]

What's the bag for attached to your arse? Is that in case you get caught short on your way up? hehe

Looks impressive - I dont think i've got the upper body strength to pull myself up a wall like that, expecially with such an overhang!

[Ride-or-die]

cheers mate, normally my bag is filled with chalk, but on the odd occasion you would be correct

[Tark]

Looks like good fun. Good for building your arms, shoulders and legs I guess.

[WebTone]

Bloody air force used to make us do stuff like that. Kept telling them if they were insiting that I wanted a parachute for anything above 6ft.:laughboun

You've got more bottle than me for heights. Well done.:clap

[DoodleBug]

I used to go there alot, havent climbed in a while though. The bat cave used to be a ceiling with nothing but holes, so it was pure upper body, good fun. The castle is ropes only, but about twice as high as Mile End plus it has some excellent traversing walls and campus boards.

[Ride-or-die]

I used to go there alot, havent climbed in a while though. The bat cave used to be a ceiling with nothing but holes, so it was pure upper body, good fun. The castle is ropes only, but about twice as high as Mile End plus it has some excellent traversing walls and campus boards.


yeah i heard it was good for traversing. i might check it out as if i wanna climb outside im going to have to use ropes then, as i want to do more than bouldering.

the bat cave isnt there anymore although it does sound really good, shame

[EverSoSlightlyFasterThanU]

did you jump up there

[porka]

yeah he did he has got these magical shoes with reallly big springs on the bottom

[Lateshift]

like "Clown shoes"? :D

[porka]

yes exactly like clown shoes:grin2

[Juvenilerider]

Clown shoes are just big - i think you mean spaceman shoes

[EverSoSlightlyFasterThanU]

no spaceman boots god dam it

[Ride-or-die]

i correct u all, they are climbing shoes and so i climbed

[Lateshift]

You speak with two tongues, they are in fact Jesters shoes (bells for the ends come as a useful accessory :D ).

[RaceMeNSee]

cool!

[FasterThanU]

its fantastic i love it dont some cliff faces in portual and spain only one over hang done a bit of it but with no ropes and being about 100 foot up i decided to call it a day Porka got some pics. also i got shouted at by some German peoplebecause i was climbing right above where they were fish but i was too high for their stones to hit me ha ha haaaa

[EverSoSlightlyFasterThanU]

jesta shoes WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!11

[Ride-or-die]

sounds good rob, just the sort of thing ud do

[FasterThanU]

i wanna go on the wall though and learn how to do it properly what days you go and may i come with you?

[porka]

just do it the hardcore way with no ropes and above people who fishing.

[Ride-or-die]

i wanna go on the wall though and learn how to do it properly what days you go and may i come with you?


well theres no fishing people, i normally go mondays and wednesdays, itll be awesome for u to join me man, i go with my mate alex but hes rubbish

[harriebird]

i used to go loads when i lived up north, climbing walls in the week and in the winter and out on the grit at the weekends and the summer evenings.

they were happy days but then i hurt myself leading something easy. i went back to it and led something much harder to prove to myself i could still do it. i'm not sure how i feel about going again though.

if you need to borrow outdoor kit then most of mine is pretty tidy, the bit that held me when i fell off is not included because i'll keep that forever. i have got pretty much everything you could want for sport climbing, or loads of bits for proper hot rock action

and cliffs are definitely where it's at, bosherston head in pembrokeshire with the sun gently warming my back? yes please! maybe i will do it again.

[Ride-or-die]

your a legend harriebird, why dont me you and tuck go at some point, you should get back into it

[harriebird]

i would be up for a trip to a climbing wall, to see how i get on?

(unless you are only kidding in which case i shall slink out to the garage and admire my new bike to cheer myself up)

[Ride-or-die]

dam ur garage, no seriously u wanna join us, u too tuck, im going wednesday this week

[harriebird]

the more i think about it the more i'm quite up for going again. not this week but soon for sure.

[DoodleBug]

Can I play, havent climbed for ages, but have never got rid of the itch.

[Ride-or-die]

awesome, EB climbing day, when?

[FasterThanU]

im up for that but i pulled some thing on my arm at donington and cant even pull the cluth in let alone go climbing
but definatly wanna do it

[harriebird]

you can still go climbing with one arm, it's a good thing to do because it teaches you to work harder with your legs :grin2

so no excuses :grin2

how far away is the mile end one anyway? is that where we're going?

[DoodleBug]

Mile end is almost in Central London at the end of the A13, I pass it every morning. It has a fairly big car/bike park, or we could use the train, there is a tube stop about half a mile away.

And yep, I used to see a one armed spaniard who could climb better than anyone else there, grew up in the spanish mountains I think.

[Ride-or-die]

i used to get the train, then realised, u follow the a12 literally to the wall, so not only is it easy to drive/ride to but its also half the price in fuel than public transport

[harriebird]

i don't mind driving if people are not too far from the a12, i'm coming from furthest out so makes sense if people don't mind sharing fuel? and there's plenty of room for kit, people and the odd greyhound as well