Vertical Wall and adjacent wall Re Set

There have been some new problems put up on the vertical section of the bouldering wall. More will be added as soon as we can. I'll also put some pics up of them too...

Blue; HF, Sit start, no features or bridging V5
Blue; HF Sit start, no features, bridging allowed V4
Brown; HF, Sit start V2
Fl Pink; HF, Sit start, no features V4
Grey; HF, Sit start features for feet V4
Fl Orange; HF, Sit start, no features V3
Yellow; HF, Sit start, V2
Tan; HF Sit start V1
Blue/Green Swirls; HF, Sit start (no bridging required; heel hook...) V2

Transition Bouldering Masters Competition

ARE YOU READY???

The first Transition Bouldering Masters competition is being held on Sunday 27th April.

This is your chance to compete and be named the Transition Bouldering Master!

Fun category runs from 15:00 to 17:00 and the Elite from 18:00 to 20:00. Each category will have 10 problems to be attempted in the two hours. There is no limit on the number of attempts you can have.

Register on the day no later than half an hour before the event so that you can get warmed up.

The bouldering wall will be closed to the public on this day for the competition (the rest of the wall will remain open).

Skinless re setting on the Barrel

After playing on the new problems on the bouldering wall over the last few days i've all but lost feeling and skin in my fingertips!



Problems:

Green/Black Spots; HF, Feature for feet V4
Pink/Black Spots; HF, No Feature V2
Yellow; HF, Feature for feet V4
Tan; HF, No Feature V3
Mint; HF, Feature for feet V4
FL Orange; HF, No Feature V4
Lilac; HF, Feature for feet V2

Under the roof in the early hours: Roof re set

With my body clock out of sync with the rest of the world for various resons i stayed late last night to get the bulk of the re setting done on the roof... (all are sit starts)

Yellow; HF, No Features, Bottom left start V6

Fl Pink; HF, & Feet on feature with FL Pink hold and box volume on side of roof only V7

Mint; HF & Features for feet V4

Yellow/Orange; HF & Feet on feature with yel/or hold only. finishes round left side of 45 board. V8

Yellow/Red Stripes; Dyno HF, No Features V5

Black; HF & all Features V4

Dark Green; HF & all Features V3

Rock; HF & all Features V3

Dark Green and Rock; HF & all features V2

Blue; HF, No Features, starting hold under volume on 45 board V7

Brown; HF, No Features V7

Red/Grey; HF, No Features V6

Fl Green&Big Green Edgez; HF, No Features V6

Pink/Purple Swirls (right side); HF, no feature, brick wall allowed for feet at start V4

MCofS Youth Climbing Series

Please note that the MCofS Youth Climbing Series Round 2 is being held at Transition this Saturday 5th April. The wall will be closed all day for the competition that starts at 09:30.


We apologise for any inconvenience caused and appreciate your cooperation in our efforts to develop the world of Climbing.


Cheers all,

10 degree board re set

The 10 degree board is on its way with 8 problems so far and more are to be added in the near future.
The Problems will be displayed on the grading lists at the side of the bouldering walls over the next day or so (or as each panel is re set).

Problems so far:

Yellow; Sit Start, HF, No Bridging and no Arete V5
Dark Purple; Sit start, AF, All features in V1
Grey/Orange; Sit Start, HF, No Bridging and no Arete V4
White/Green; Sit Start, HF + Bridging, No Arete V4
Tan; Sit start, AF, All features in V3
Green (left); Sit Start, HF + Arete, No bridging V3
White; Sit Start, HF, No Bridging and no Arete V3
FL Orange; Sit Start, HF, No Bridging and no Arete V3

Purple;Sit Start, HF, No Bridging and no Arete V3

Green slopers (right); Sit Start, HF, No Bridging/Arete V8

Red; Sit Start, HF V1

TEAM TRANSITION STORMS SOUTH

After Tim dropped me off from our day on the coast (see previous post), I quickly packed my bag and crammed into a minibus with a group of Aberdeen University student and drove down south. Just 2 hours before dusk, we arrived at Stanage car park. After a brief nap in the cave and in the minibus (in one case, ON the minibus) and a quick breakfast in Hathersage we assaulted the crag.

Alex (new in Transition) displayed exceptional skills sending the classic Deliverance. Some E3s and E4s (such as Cavalry and Tele) were tackled and proved to be of some very fine climbing. And of course the classic Flying Buttress Direct. After this great day and there was more climbing to come…

On Saturday some of us headed off to Sheffield’s Climbing Works to take part in the British Universities Championships (BUSA). 70 teams from all over the UK climbed 25 boulder problems. The team was not feeling strong after the day on grit; so even greater was our surprise when we were awarded three bronze medals! A team from Sheffield took the first place and runner up was the team from Manchester.

Our Team from Aberdeen consisted of: Anna Wells (climbing instructor), Luke Fairweather (café kitchen staff) and Piotr Wisthal (climbing instructor). Anna also came third in Women Individual category. Well-done Anna!

As if that was not enough we headed (after a well-deserved kebabs and pizzas) to Chris Sharma’s lecture. Those who had enough energy (everybody apart from me) climbed on Sunday as well.

By
Piotr Wisthal

45 degree board Re Set

Stuart Stronach kindly re-set the 45 board today on his time off from work. I also managed to put a problem or two up...


Dark Purple; Sit start, HF, no features V2
Dark Green; Sit start, HF, no features V5
Yellow; Sit start, HF, no features V3
Purple; Sit start, HF, no features (left side of board) V4
Red; Sit start, HF, no features V3
Tan; Sit start, HF, no features V9
Mint; Sit start, HF, no features V4
Fl Pink; Sit start, HF, no features V7
Fl Orange; Sit start (left side of board), HF, feat for feet V5
White; Sit Start, HF no features (up left of 45) V4
Purple/Orange Swirls; Sit start, HF no features V7


Happy bouldering.....

Re Setting the Bouldering Wall

We've started setting on the Bouldering wall and plan to work through it panel by panel. Discuption should be a minimum as we will be doing it during the day time over the next week or so.

Wintery day at the beachfront

Today has seen a start to the easter holidays and with it some wintery snow showers...

The moments when Mr Sunshine could peek through the masses of clouds were in fact very nice and if out of the wind; quite pleasant.

Throughout the easter holidays we are running kids camps and a lot of bookings for council, private, family and many other groups throughout the day. We also have the usual courses and private bookings in the evenings that will primarily use the group instructional wall.

We also have the British Youth Climbing series with us on the 5th of April. Please note that the Climbing Centre will be closed on that date as the competition will run from opening through to the early evening.