Well its another blog while on another train journey.
This time i’m not on my way to a climbing destination or a climbing competition. Im on route to Trinidad for work. Ill be working on an Oil Rig doing rope access for one month.
Working is not something I really want to be doing but like most people I have to do it.
I have got myself a hangboard packet in my bags so I will keep up the training while i’m there and hopefully spring back into action when i’m back and get some comps done and rocks climbed.

On the climbing front, I have been fairly active recently. After a crazy sickness that lasted for weeks and caused grief for my recent trip to USA and CWIF i’m finally feeling fit and healthy.
I have been on the Limestone in the Peaks a fair amount and mostly at night times after work.
I bought this amazing mountain bike light thats 2200 lumens….thats crazy bright. So, with the lights I have been heading out on the rocks all the time. The light basically means if the weather is good I have 24 hours of light and time on the rock.
I have been climbing on the gritstone a little bit but to the disgust of many climbers in sheffield i’m really keen on the Limestone right now.
I have been going to a little crag called Badger cove. Badger Cove is a little Limestone Cave thats absolutely amazing. The moves and all the boulders there are world class. Last week I managed to climb one of the fantastic lines at the crag called Dandelion Mind and graded 8B+/V14. The boulder was first climbed by Dan Varian and has been repeated by Dave Jones.
It took me 3 days to climb this boulder. Day one was figuring out the moves, Day Two I fell on the last move but the boulder was a bit wet and after a bad fall I pulled the pin, Day 3 I had success.
The moves on this boulder are as good as they come…. Crazy jump move followed by a sideways kneebar then some desperate slaps while holding super small edges and side pulls to a fairly high finish. We got the send on video and we will be releasing it in the movie we are working on called Theres No Place Like Home.
I have also been at a little crag called Crag X (cressbrook). I have been working on the sit start to Superman. I have come so close to doing the sit start but I fell off right at the end last night after my foot popped off. I had a few more attempts but unfortunately it was a bit to wet, so no luck for me. I was hopping to get back down and finish off the Sit Start to Superman before I had to leave for this job but I had a phone call at 6am today asking if I could leave ASAP.
So i’m on the train to Gatwick airport and ill be back in 1 month to get some things climbed.

Alex is off In France right now competing in the second Bouldering World Cup, so fingers crossed I can watch her climbing via the live stream. Its going to be hard to be away from her for so long but she is busy with the comps so thats great for her.