CHANGE TO OPENING HOURS FOR 4th to 7th DECEMBER

CUSTOMER NOTICE:

CHANGE TO OPENING HOURS FOR 4^th to 7^th DECEMBER

Due to essential light maintenance Transition Extreme will have altered opening times on the following dates:

4^th December:      Early Closure of Centre

CENTRE OPENING HOURS: 10:00 – 18:00

5^th December:      Late opening of Centre

CENTRE OPENING HOURS: 12:00 – 22:00

6^th & 7^th December: Late opening of Skatepark

SKATEPARK OPENING HOURS: 12:00 – 22:00

ALL OTHER CENTRE FACILITIES: 10:00 – 22:00

8^th December:            Normal opening hours resume

We apologise for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your cooperation.

Transition Extreme Management.

Bouldering Comp Round 3 THIS FRIDAY!

Don't forget this Friday the 2nd of December is the 3rd round of our winter bouldering league.

Come down to compete or enter our Fun catagory and have a laugh with your friends.

Hope to see everyone there!

Etchachan Club Winter Lecture

Here at Transition Extreme we are proud to announce that this years Etchachan club winter lecture series will be held in centre.

Throughout the winter four talks will be given on a variety of subjects from island cragging in Scotland to Scottish winter climbing!

The first talk will be from the wall regular Henning Wackerhage, on the 13th of December!

Henning is an exercise physiologist and an outstanding photographer. His talk will be in three parts:

-Genetics and training for climbing

-Strategy for maximising winter climbing opportunities from of a limited number of climbing days.

-The ‘Patey Exam’ – climbing Scorpion, Eagle Ridge and Mitre Ridge in a single winter season.


Come down and try it out! The Etchachan club is a great way of meeting a wide variety of climbers and hearing about adventures in Scotland and abroad!

Johnny Dawes TONIGHT!

Don't forget Johnny Dawes will be coming to Transition Extreme tonight to talk about his new book "Full of Myself".

For those of you that aren't familiar with him his major contribution to British climbing was the introduction of two new grades to the British Grading system for rock climbing (E8 and E9), and several new routes that are today still world standard. In 1986 he introduced the grade E9 to the British grading system with a first ascent of the route "Indian Face", a route of epic proportions and still to this day known around the world as the perfect example of high-end traditonal climbing.

Some other notable ascents include

1986 Gaia, Black Rocks E8 6c (first ascent)
1986 End of the Affair, Curbar Edge E8 6c (first ascent)
Smoked Salmon, Bamford Edge E8 7b (first ascent)
Face Mecca, Clogwyn Du'r Arddu E9 6c (second ascent)
Angel's share, Black Rocks E8 7a (first ascent)
1990 The Very Big & the Very Small 8b+/8c slab (first ascent)

He will be speaking tonight from 8:00pm tickets cost £7 in advance or £10 at the door.

The wall will be closed to climbing from 8pm so come down and then climb then relax after with a great talk from an inspirational legend of British Rock Climbing.

See you there!

Have you got your ticket yet?

Then hurry up! Not long! Johnny Dawes, 8.00PM. 24th of November! How could you miss it?

BBC Radio Scotland!

A great interview with Joe from the skatepark, well worth a listen.

Bouldering League Video Round 2!

Here is the video for the second round of the bouldering league. Fantastic work once again Pete!

Transition Extreme Winter Bouldering League Round 2 from piotr wisthal on Vimeo.

The next round of the league is on the 2nd of December.

The video was done was by "Polish Pete", often seen around the wall with 4kgs strapped to him!

Check out his Flickr and ukclimbing.com galleries,

http://www.ukclimbing.com/photos/author.html?id=69112

http://www.flickr.com/photos/piotrwisthal/

Staff climbing trip west

On Sunday, the two Tom's, Oli and Tim all set out west for the super quality Goat Crag. Here is Tom Russell on the ***star 7a+. Happy autumnal sunshine all round.

Johnny Dawes comes to TE

Transition Extreme are proud to announce that the legendary rock climber Johnny Dawes will be talking on the 24th of November! Talking about his life, reading from his new autobigraphy and showing clips from the film "Stone Monkey", this is an evening not to miss! Tickets £7, available from reception (£10 on the night). Starts at 8.00PM. Make sure you don't miss out!   We will have the plans for the new wall out as well, so you can see what the hype is about and the plans for the Dream Tower!

Discount at the Adventure Film Festival!

 

The Adventure Film Festival is coming to Aberdeen and showcases the best in extreme sports and adventure films from around the world.

During a 5 week nationwide tour, they have 17 films that screen across the country in 30 locations. The Elemental Adventure evening includes 4 films, including a special festival edit of Warren Miller’s 62^nd annual ski and board movie “Like There’s No Tomorrow”. Aside from all the snow action, it also includes “Life Cycles” a fantastic mountain-biking movie, “Hawaii Wave Ski” with Mike Douglas skiing on waves and Free Fall a short, free diving movie.

You can find out more info on all the films here: http://adventurefest.co.uk/

For Transition Extreme members, if you enter the discount code TRANEXTREME11 into the checkout on the website you can get a 20% discount on tickets!

Become Part of the New Dream Tower

Transition Extreme are proud to announce a huge new development for the climbing centre.

The new Dream Tower will add 14 new lines, with three overhanging walls, a slab and a vertical. We have more plans and photos in the centre, so come down and have a look!

The new development needs your help! We are looking for people to become involved with this project by helping us raise £5000 for new holds, desperately needed to stock the new tower and replace much of the ageing stock.

Therefore we have launched the SPONSOR A HOLD CAMPAIGN

We have 200 amazing Core holds, available from as little as £10. By sponsoring the hold you will get your name on the hold and be invited to a unique VIP event to climb on the wall before anyone else!

We have built a HOLDOMETER to chart our progress and have already raised over £500, come down to the centre to see the glitter holds move up towards the desired £5000 target!

You can also SPONSOR A LINE. For £200 you will get a plaque at the base of the route and a route set at your desiered grade, as well as an invite to the VIP event!

You can also DONATE A SET OF HOLDS, if you have something in mind that you think Transition Extreme should have, you can donate the holds and be part of the VIP event!

Come down to the centre to see the plans, sponsor a hold and help us gain our target of £5000!

Tiso Discount Evening Tonight

Anna Wells: Guest Setter

Many of you at the wall will already know Anna, from her long time served at Transition Extreme.

Anna came up on Saturday to set routes, after so many requests! There is now a new 6a+ and a 6c. Come down and try them out! We have the routes book and want to know what people think of the route setting so feel free to add your own comments!

The bouldering wall has been revamped again following the second round of the winter series, so as well as the competition problems there is a full range of problems and more to come over the following weeks. We have begun trying to even out the grade spread on the bouldering wall, so have a look, try some problems and get back to us with your comments! The infamous volumes problem on the 45 board will stay up for the next week, so get cranking!

Anna during the summer enjoying the gritstone after the BYCS (British Youth Climbing Series)

New Wall Preview

Tonight is the new wall preview, so come down from 5.00PM onwards and have a look at the plans for the new wall development! There will be nibbles!

Winter Bouldering League
Round 2 Results


Thanks to everyone who attended. The atmosphere was fantastic and everyone seemed to enjoy the problems! The next comp is on the 2nd of December! So get training!
Thanks also go out to our main sponsor for this round Craigdon Mountain Sports http://www.craigdonmountainsports.com/ and also Aberdeen Snowsports Centre http://www.skiaberdeen.com/ for prizes!
Heres what you have been waiting for....

The Results

Winter Bouldering Comp Tomorrow!

Don't forget! TONIGHT Round two!

www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=282618591772238

Route setting by Neil McGeachy

Last Friday Neil McGeachy was at TE route setting. He set a 6c,7a,7c,6c and a 5! So something for everyone! Neil is an outstanding all round climber and has a wealth of route setting experience.

Check out his "Geek Climbing & Coaching" blog, http://geekclimb.blogspot.com/

And his bio on the MC of S website, http://www.mcofs.org.uk/neilmcgeachy.asp

Come down and try them! We have brought back the route book, so comments (nicely.....) can be made on each route.

Road Closures during Firework Display

For more infomation have a look on the Aberdeen City Council website

http://www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/home/home.asp

Tiso Discount Evening