Steve MccClure
Route Setting that I want to do!
The mens final, the easy start with a very long way to go!
Route setting can be tough work. But when the wall is awesome I can’t complain. I was setting for the Norwegian Cup last weekend with Rob Napier. The cup was at the city of Stavanger on the west coast, at one of the biggest walls I have ever seen. There are barely any climbers here too. This is often the case, with most of the Norwegian walls being amazing, way better than we have here in England, and designed around spectacular climbing as opposed to vertical flatness with cost and profit only in mind. It is possible to have spectacular easy routes though…
Anyway, we had to work hard to set in time but it all worked out with clear winners and not a single tie. Just lucky I guess. Then a wall re-set afterwards, hard work, like well over 12 hours per day, but setting at this place its hard to feel like its work, because I’m setting something that I am going to climb and its going to be amazing. The wall is so good I don’t think it’s possible to set a bad route, maybe I should have just closed my eyes and thrown the holds on as an experiment. If I had this wall near to my house I think I’d be there plenty, I might even get fit…....
March 01, 2011 09:51 PM
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