I know my English is quite good, but I also know it's not the very best. So please forgive me my mistakes and just try to read (and maybe enjoy :-P) my blog without being annoyed by them.
In my last post I said, that I haven't found THE (one and only) project yet. So, things might have changed....no they have changed for sure.
I'm here in Mallorca for one month now, so I have only five more to go.
The last month was a month of searching for a route, that motivates me as hell! Of course I've climbed a lot, tried different crags, different routes with different style and so on...but nevertheless I was always searching for the right one....sounds like I'm talking about girls now. XD
When someone "only" got 6 months to climb in one place, many people would consider him to just climb as much as possible....easier routes, at onsight/flash level or a little bit above.
Well, that's what I'm being told pretty every day, but it's only their way, and just one possible out of many ones.
What I like the most is projecting. I feel more like a boulderer, just that I enjoy it more to climb with a rope than with a crashpad...don't know why; it's just a fact....as some people prefer chocolate pudding and some prefer vanilla pudding! :-P
It's that I really love this process of getting better at something that first seemed or was impossible. In the beginning you maybe can't even do one of the crux-moves, but finally one day, after a long period of small progresses you redpoint this damn whole thing, and it is indescribably awesome!
(P.s.: I prefer vanilla pudding!) :D
Ok, back to my story: For me it was absolutely clear that I have to find a cool project to spend a lot of time in.
One day a friend wanted to show me a special climbing spot in Mallorca, a secret sector. He was telling me about the routes, that they require a lot of endurance and so on.
So first I thought: "Fuck, I don't wanna go there, I wanna do some short bouldery routes, that suite my style of climbing!"
But in the end he pursuaded me, just to have a look at the crag for one day, because it should be a supernice setting, simply a beautiful place that I "must" have seen.
So we went there....uh yeah, I have to tell you another thing: it's necessary to hike upwards for about 30 min. That was another reason, why I wasn't too motivated first, because as I've written in my last post, it had more than 30° C every day.
When we arrived I thought that it looks quite good, but that I've seen many places like this yet.
But the thing is, that you first can't see the whole size of the cave. And then out of nowhere it appears in its real dimension and it's fuuuuuuucking impressive!!!!! Mind totally blown! :)
I stood there and had to realize, that this is for sure one of the best climbing sites I've ever seen, if not the very best!
After warming up in a pumpy 6b+ (which I couldn't do onsight or flash) I wanted to test something hard..my friend recommended me an 8a that seemed to be very nice. But the first quickdraw was missing and also the route to the right - an 8a+ according to the topo - looked simply awesome and it was completely mounted, so that such lazy guys like me don't have to bring something with them.
No way...I got to try it.
And paah, what can I say: it's crazy, man. It's crazy awesome. Absolutely not my style..dynamic, tidy overhanging, sustained and last but not least it has pretty big distances between the bolts...to sum it up: PURE ANTISTYLE! ;)
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| Bartek in front of "my" route. |
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| Quite overhanging...more than it seems on this photo |
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| View from inside the cave |
I hope I will have enough time to project another route afterwards, but I'm quite confident, although it's hard to estimate the time it will take me to redpoint this beauty...
Nice that you publishing now in English ;)
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