BMC Youth Climbing Series 2009

Round 1, West Midlands Area, held at Bear Rock Climbing Centre, Warwick


Saturday was the 1st round of the BYCS and the Junior Team Wolf were there in strength.
They all had a great day and the results showed all there hard work had paided off with some good results.

Results
Boys 8-10
Dominic Vincent & George Morris Joint 1st
Dominic winning a super climb off.
Ciaran Poole 4th
Menzies Campbell 6th

Girls 8-10
Imogen Porter 2nd
Rebecca Lawton 3rd
Sophie Perrin 5th
Kati Marshall & Aofie McAdam Joint 6th

Boys 11-13
Duncan Fisher, Zack Porter
& Jack Dyer Joint 1st
Super Climb off Duncan 1st, Zack 2nd & Jack 3rd
Jack Walker 5th
James Sharman 6th
Ben Perrin 8th
Jonathan Murphy 10th

Girls 11-13
Molly McAdam 4th
Carla Lambert 6th
Ashleigh Bryant 7th
Olvia Bolas 8th
Bethany Lim 10th

Girls 14-16
Libby Dodd 2nd
Emma Knight 4th

For Full Results see the Here

See Links above for Video Footage

Well Done to all who were involved

Roaches Ristrictions

Take from the BMC website please be aware of the new restriction at the roaches upper tier

In order to protect nesting peregrines an agreement has been reached to restrict climbing and bouldering until further notice on part of the Upper Tier at the Roaches.

The agreement was made between the BMC, the Peak National Park (PDNPA), Natural England and the RSPB, and comes into immediate effect.

The restriction applies to climbing between Libra (Route No. 32) and Easy Gully Wall (Route No. 75), and includes all the bouldering in the Sloth arena. Notices will be placed on site. All route references relate to the BMC Staffordshire Grit / The Roaches guidebook (2004).

The reaction of the birds will be monitored by the PDNPA and the BMC on a regular basis and if it proves possible to ease the bouldering restriction then this will be published on the BMC Regional Access Database and with notices on site.

Check the latest access information for The Roaches on the BMC Regional Access Database

More New Routes

There are now new routes in the second room and the small bouldering wall set by Mark Croxall.
Have fun

Timmy Strikes Agian

Myself , Timmy and Phil decided to meet up at Stanage on Saturday. We got there to find it all very moist. A few things dried out so we tried to warm up. A couple of goes on greens Travers (Fnt 7a) and we had a play on Captain Hook (Fnt 7b) . Tim quickly Repeated it and then Phil managed to do it. I on the other hand didn't. Then tim had a quick play on the Ace (Fnt 8b) but it was not quite cold enough. Phil wanted to have another go on Brass Monkey's (Fnt 7c) which almost done before. He started well and just needed a few more goes. After a slow start on this Tim did this see video Below

Next few goes and Phil does it too his first Fnt 7c. Not to be out out done again I gave it another goes and did all the moves , all I had to do was put my foot on and stand up. Next thing new Phil had caught me and i was on the mat, I had fell off the last move damn. Too tired to try again we moved on to try the storm(fnt 7b+) , and old nemesis. Again after a few goes I was getting to my usual high point of my fingers an inch away from the top holds but that was it. Even Tim couldn't do it ( it must be hard). By now I was tired so left for home and left them to have a go at Brad pit!

Robin's Font Trip

One of the regulars Robin Holland is now in Font for a while after quitting his job.
You can follow what he gets up to on his blog

http://theadventuresofmrpotatohead.blogspot.com/

Myself and Deb our going out to Join him for the last week in March , Can't Wait