It has been
a week now since I left for South Africa. After a long but comfortable flight
with KLM and a night spend in Cape Town we drove up to Rocklands. It is so good
being here. The weather is really nice, clear blue skies, and a beautiful Milky
way at night.
Up to now I
have had 4 days of climbing in good conditions. Climbing feels okay. While I am
hardly able to do a 7A on plastic at my home gym Delftsbleau, I did manage to
do some 7th grade boulders outside.
I flashed “9
thousand something km to Frankenjura”. It is listed as 7B+ in the topo but it
did not feel like a 7B+. It is actually only one hard move on a tiny mono. It
is a bit scary to hang on a single finger but if you commit to the move it isn’t
all too far to the rail.
The other
7B+ that I managed to do is called MC Moonwalk. The boulder doesn’t look very
appealing but it is a beauty to climb. This boulder didn’t go down too easily.
I had to work in it for quite some time before I could figure out all the
moves. The hardest thing was to place and fix my foot/leg in the large crack.
I managed
to do two 7A’s which were both nice but nothing special, a beautiful 6C+ and
some other 6th grade boulders.
A selection
of the problems can be found in the movie below. Unfortunately, there is no footage
of the Frankenjura boulder. Somebody thought I would not be able to flash it so
the camera was not switched on….