Stofast Bouldering clip

A short clip of a day out at the Stones of Stofast last week.

New Venue, Levenwick Bouldering

I recently found this new area by chance when my wife Claire was doing some research on her family tree at the cemetary in Levenwick. I took a stroll along the headland and found an overhanging wall with a shallow cave at one end. It was a little grubby with some signs of seepage but looked like there'd be a good number of problems. I didn't have much time to look around so I promised myself a return visit before too long.

I went back last week for a short session to try one or two of the problems and arranged to meet up with a boulderer from Italy who was in the islands on holiday. The place didn't disappoint! We climbed the lower tier which comprises of a short slab section then goes into a long, low roof section, the entire wall is about 20m long. We climbed 5 problems altogether up to V7 on excellent compact sandstone and with many more hard problems to go at I'm looking forward to the next visit.

Valerio on 'The Italian Job' V7/font 7a+

Heylor Wall

It's been a while since I last did anything on this micro wall, maybe three or four years, but I am always amazed how you can remember even the smallest details. The tiny crimps and smears, the individual moves and sequences that originally took a bit of time to work out, it all floods back. Climbing Pobie Sukka V3 (ss) with very cold fingers!
The Shun V2, a great little problem in a great location.

There are around a dozen problems here, enough to keep you occupied for an hour or two and a great place to just sit and have a cup of tea! (Which is what we ended up doing!)

Deep water bouldering?

Well it had to be done. Roll on the spring!

Climbing out of a hole, 2010

Well the start of 2010 threw up some challenges for our fledgling business and as a result, climbing was shelved for the rest of the year to gain some new direction and inspiration. You can't win em' all!
Things are settling down now so the coming year looks an exciting one.

2010 wasn't a total loss though, with a trip away to the peaks in May and a number of friends visiting, I managed to scrape the odd session.

Here's a couple of photos of some of our 2010 sessions, there were at least three dry days! Roll on 2011.

A Happy new year to you all.