Dave Graham Lecture and Masterclass 11th Oct

Dave Graham is a phenomenon. Exploding onto the scene only a few years ago he pretty much instantly established himself as one of the strongest climbers on the planet with very quick repeats and first ascents of many of the worlds hardest boulder problems and routes. On top of that Dave can talk! His enthusiastic philosophy on life, climbing and everything else is evident in the many climbing films he’s starred in and in his online writings (see his Blog - http://www.climbing.com/exclusive/problog/davegraham/). His lecture will combine all of the above in a whirlwind hour and a half highly energised performance, focussed on the progression of hard climbing and where it is headed.

Adventure Films showing in VUE

Vue Cinema are showing three short films together as part of an Adventure Film series from the 22nd September.

These films include:

King Lines (portrait or Chris Sharma and his climbing career; 40minutes)

Play Gravity (Snowboarding and Speedriding in Europe and Alaska 52minutes)

Farther Than The Eye Can See (Erik Weihenmayer’s historic attempt to reach the summit of Mount Everest 75 minutes)

Previous series that VUE have shown were a good success and enjoyable viewing so get down there and go see them!

WINTER EVENTS 08/09!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

The summer is almost gone and as you sigh and grunt with the prospect of bad weather and darker nights let Transition brighten your winter up with some great events. Here's a SMALL selection of what's to come:

First off the Transition Bouldering league:

Each round is on a friday with setting of the problems during the day.

Round 1 3rd October
Round 2 7th November
Round 3 12th December
Round 4 16th January
Final 13th February

The wall will be open for public access until 3pm on each of these days but there will be no access to the bouldering wall at anytime.
Each round begins at 6:30 so make sure you're in and warmed up in time. They will finish at 9:30 with raffle and prizes being given out after the scorecards have been taken in.

Cost of entry is £3 plus your regular admission rates (memberships and session passes can be used for admission).

Categories include; Junior Girls & Junior Boys (14 - 17yrs), Male & Female Fun and Elite ad well as Veteran.

All welcome, problems ranging from very easy to very hard, very wackey to very technical.

Secondly is the Dave Graham Lecture and Masterclass on Saturday 11th October.

Dave will be taking up to ten folks of any ability looking to improve and get some great tips on their climbing for a couple of hours then a lecture in Transition afterwards.

6pm to 8pm: Masterclass Price and booking date will be released soon.
8:15 ish: Lecture Price and booking date will be released soon.

Tickets will be available from Transition extreme for the Lecture. Booking for the masterclass will be available in the beginning of September through email (MORE INFO TO FOLLOW).

Cafe Promo/Social nights:

Friday 26th Sept, 31st Oct, 28th Nov, 19th Dec, 30th Jan, 27th Feb and 27th March.

Come on down to the wall and have a climb then fill yourself with some great food from around the world in the cafe from 8pm onwards. Refreshments will be available for those that wish to delve into a bottle or two of the foaming ale or you can bring your own.
Just remember not to try and go back intot the wall if you've had a wee drink!

So if you normally go out after your climb of you come down on a Friday anyway why not join in and have a laugh or just chill out.

Leading Ladder:

Heats: November and December
Final: January

Try your hand at named routes in the wall and compete in the Heats then in the finals! Lots of prizes and lots of fun. More info to follow.

Winter events

There's a new board up in the wall displaying our winter events calendar...

On it you'll find dates of lectures, comps, promo nights etc etc...

Further information for each event will be posted in the centre and on the blog nearer the time of the event.

Cheers

Bouldering wall re-setting

Work is under way to re-set the bouldering wall between the 25th July and 5th Aug inclusive.

Please bear with us whilst certain boards (typically one at a time) may be out of use for a couple of hours a day between these dates. The disruption should be minimal as access to the rest of the bouldering wall will still be available. And hey, clean holds are better than dirty ones!

Cheers

Gift aid donations

Transition Extreme would like to encourage all members and prospective members to sign up for Gift Aid donations.

As a charity Transition is entitled to get Tax back on any donations you make and have made in the last six years (well, since we opened at least).

We rely on grants and donations from various companies and organisations to help the centre continue and improve its services. Paying customers are obviously a huge part of our business too so why not do something that costs you nothing and gives us some extra funds to improve the centre.

For more information or to complete the declaration form please see reception.

Thanks to all and hope to see you soon

2 Awards in one week!!!

Transition has been very lucky this week as we have won two prestigous awards.

First of all we were awarded 'Socially responsible Business' by Crimestoppers. This was profiled by events such as the Urban Arts project amongst others...

Then, last night we were overjoyed to recieve the 'Business Success' in the under 3 years category. Competition was stiff for all categories and this makes it all the more special...

The Transition team thanks all of you out there that have supported us since we opened our doors in April last year.

Still Getting Stronger!

Here is the evidence as if we needed it! Transition has had a positive effect on the North East Climbing scene its now June and still folks are trying to get stronger and send those projects!

Amamda Lyons demonstrates immaculate technique on The Pain 7a a porty classic

Mark Scott makes like an orangutan and prepares for the swing on the uber classic The Pit 7a

Look at the monkey swing!!! Mark taking the swing before the final pull over the lip!

Gordon Lennox and our own Duncan Paterson trying to pull the Pit Boulder over!!! You'll need more than the 2 of you? Duncan employing some cunning foot work on The Buzz 7a+ and Gordon mid way through his marathon 5 hours session on Kayla 7c+!

It seems assured now wither summer or winter you will always get a crack down at Porty! Thanks to Stuart for taking some pics and check out his and Amanda's flickr site link on the left for more inspiring photos of porty bouldering.

We're selling climbing gear!!!

That's right; we have a sales counter set up for all customers to purchase climbing gear.

At the moment we are holding limited stock or basic necessities such as; finger tape, chalk balls, chalk bags, loose chalk and some krabs and belay devices.

If it is a success then we will look to increase the range of items we sell from it to include harnesses and other hardware.

The counter is located just outside the climbing wall door. If you whish to purchase anything from it then simply speak to the reception staff to get it for you and pay at the reception desk. If you have any technical questions please seek out an appropriate member for the climbing staff.

Happy climbing!!

How the West Was Won!

The Superb West Coast Weather over the last 6 weeks has been hard for us East coasters to ignore! A strong posse headed west form Aberdeen for a long weekend of action on Friday 24th May.

First up we hit the the Creag Mhor Thollaidh crags. Guy Roberson warmed up on the massive Destitution Man on Loch Maree Crag a 50m E4 5c of stunning quality unlike the photo!

Mean while another strong party of Pete Benson and Ali Coull were limbering up on some fine Loch Tollaidh routes. Ali Coull demonstrates east coast living doesn't need to be tan free on MacDonald a fine E4 6a.

Sunday was to full of climbing for any one to pick up the camera but Monday was a treat, climbing as a 3, Pete , Ali and myself headed to Rieff.

I lead of first on the superb and great named "If You See Kay" the lengths some people will go to to have a swear word in a SMC guide book?

Ali made lite work of another steep neo classic Miss Money Penny E5 6a

Pete felt obliged to stuff his finger into the alluring crack of Strongbow the classic E2 at the Stone Pig Cliff.

I tried in vain to keep the momentum up but narrowly failed to onsight arguably the most under rated route at Rieff! Clatterbridge is a great sustained wall climb(E56b).

We then made a quick dash to take advantage of the dry conditions at the Boulder Cliff

Pete dawned the gloves to send the outrageously overhanging classic Wyatt Earp Surely the hardest or maybe most under graded route at Rieff at E3/4 6a?