Tom Randall Instagram – Berlin Bridge Proj 🏢 – best session yet, by far, which is promising that the cellar sessions are properly paying off now. Strategy has changed quite a bit now, as I’ve realised I’ll never be able to get enough Friend 5s for a 60m pitch nor will I have the endurance to carry them 😄. So it’s a new tactic I’ve not tried before… basically go free solo and be careful, but then when you want to get a 20-30s bathang rest, put a cam in to make yourself feel somewhat chill. Once the rest is done, take it out and carry it along for the next ‘rest’ in another 5-10m! I’ve never thought about climbing such a long roof with a single cam on me, so it’s weird trying to get your head round it 😅
I wasn’t really bargaining on this offwidth being a riskier one, but desperate times call for sketchy methods. I’m fairly confident that if you fell on the middle 30m section over water you might be able to throw a pancake shape and break your fall into the shallows, but it’s deffo a bit nerve wracking on the intro and outro 15m sections. It’s been a while since I had to get into a good headspace, so it’s been a good challenge to get properly relaxed even when repercussions are more serious.
Current link was about 8b/ but foot pain probably being more of a limiting factor than pony-pump (eh?! 😄😄). So maybe hard 8b feels absolute max in current trained state … back to the cellar it is 😈 | Posted on 29/Jun/2024 22:52:19
