After a day getting brain fried behind the computer it was time to put up some sweat at the Extreme Dream wall in Aviemore. I absolutely love the place... Stevie and Scottie have done such a great job putting this place up. It has a brilliant atmosphere, provides a superb training venue, is user friendly, and if you are in need of a social and a good chill out then this is where you want to go on your night off. They also run fantastic courses and climbing events. Check out the link on this page for their site.
Anyway tonight was just one of these good socials mixed with cranking it hard and a lot of banter. Good crowd of keen foulks. George Reid, Desiree Wilson, Mark Chadwick, Hannah Burrow Smith(literally straight of the hill still in boots and waterproofs), Pete Gwatkin and a big bunch of other regulars were all up for a good session.
George and I had agreed we were going for a night of Speed and Stamina in keeping with the Husky Snow Stars scheme..(if anyone is interested I can tell you all about it, well in fact George is probably the man to ask!) So this meant in theory lot's of fast up and down climbing.... We did start of like that but soon got caught by some more challenging routes instead of running up jugsville.
Eventually Mark and George encouraged me to give the red roof a try. Ohh help....however I got a a couple of clips further then a few weeks ago and was satisfied with that...Next time I will crack it! George was next and was going strong until the down climbing section at the end... This is where he needed 3 birds to pull him back up to the roof....Desiree, Kath and myself were all hanging of the rope without much success but good entertainment value and apparently a pleasant sight for the guys!!! Thanks to Mark for taking some pictures. Eventually we released George out of his slightly uncomfortable position..He was a happy man. We finished the evening with some other interesting routes suitably tired. We were in there for a good 3 hours and although not as fast as we planned we got quite a lot of mileage in.
Me feel happy and content and look forward to a day in them white hills tomorrow...The forecast looks rather exciting but then you can always get something done on a wild day..you just have to choose well!!!!
Cheerio,
Chris
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