13 yrs on Tony does Sky Lark

My mate Tony did sky lark e2 5c. Yellow wall on gower on Thursday good show tony. Funny story 13yrs ago he was unable to follow me up this route nice 1 son and he is off to yosimite in Sep see his blog outdoortony.blogspot.com

Friday night play

Nipped out tonight was tipping down when leaving the house but commitment paid off. Mumbles found a traverse to play on some nice heel hook moves along the lip of a roof while being attacked by megalewrians jumping out of the cracks. Short vid on YouTube under Friday night move bouldering gower

Gower route of the week

Starting next week Gower route of the week. A personal choice of routes to go do on Gower. They may not have the most stars but something makes them worth experiencing and enjoying. Go do them and leave your thoughts watch this space.

Grit Comes To Swansea Valley

A video still of the first accent of The Feeling at a secret venue in the Swansea Valley great line and NO it is not in the Peaks. It takes a steady line up an arete. A difficult starting overhang a long reach followed by committing step up and of balance reach to a good hold and one more move to a round top out. See the vid on YouTube search for The Feeling first accent. I have 2 more lines to do on the wall will then reveal all to the world. Ok its ok spot locals will like.

Nearly got my self in the shit

Nipped out for hour on the rock tonight to a cliff were I have a 6m highball boulder problem project. I had no intention of doing it because you need at least 2 mats 3 would be best. I did the other sensible stuff and then decided to play on the start of my project. Like I said its 6m high but was 8 today as the pebbles were low. A tricky start leads to a roof and a very long reach to an ok hold for your right-hand you have to commit to this then bring left around to join and crank . So I get up to the roof tonight and find myself reaching over the roof getting the hold and for a second was going to go for it. But thankfully a quick glance down to see my mat look very small and the pebble landing waiting for me if I went and blew it. I got my self back under the roof decided to check what the jump from here would be like ouch my bad ankle felt it ( I snapped my Achilles and ankle ) but hay it could have been worse tonight if I had gone for it. So Im of to borrow more mat's and get it done and hope more stones come back so its 6m not 8m.

First work out after 2 weeks of eating and drinking went ok surprisingly. Time to get on the rock hit gower sport routes. I borrowed gogarth north guide from mate tony and am inspired not by the classics but some of the less known routes there are some adventures to be had if you look need to. sort a trip.

whoops

So much for bloging adventures. Since last time been bouldering had a surf boy its been to long since I did that. Managed to get out with my mate tony for some sport climbing on Gower at third sister. That was cool we ain't seen each other for ages. Tony will pop up a lot on this blog we have had some adventures and he just had his first babe well done him.
Well more to come