Well, I've been working a lot. Enough said about that.
I went biking for the first time in aaagggeeeessss a few days ago. Went with Dave's son Alex (who happens to be like youth champion or some jazz.) who completely burned me out. He's going along on his dad's falling-to-bits bike that can't change gears cruising along easily, and I'm on his razz-ma-tazz magic bike, feeling like I'm going to vomit and stopping for a break every 30 meters.
Uphill brings on downhill, and it was well worth the effort- I forgot how fun downhill biking is! woo!
I then went hiking with John Anderson a few days later, like 2 days ago or sommat.
What a banter-filled guy! We headed up to the hidden valley of the Three Sisters, fueled by hot cocoa, chocat bars, and the ever-present story from John- I swear, something happened every 200 meters some time in the last 30 years, and he knows every one of them!
Never boring with him around. And if he doesn't have a sotry, then he's always got his "money making schemes"...
"Magnus! I bet you ten pence that you can't climb..." and so it goes.
He's £1.50 up on me, since I last checked.
Anyways, I'll post again when something worth the time comes along!
Word of the day is:
Shnuckle. The perfect way to describe the classic annoying evil-intent snicker?
Tuesday, 22 July 2008
Tuesday, 8 July 2008
Some shit and some chat.
Okay, well I've been working pretty hard lately, earning coin and watching it dissapear into the rent I'm paying for the edinburgh flat I don't even live in.
(BTW, anyone looking for a nice flat in edinburgh, across the road from edinburgh bargain store, send me an email, it's £250 a month, gets free 3 bar wifi from appleton tower, and has only one flatmate who is one of the soundest blokes around).
And then watch even more of it dissapear into paying back all the moneyz from last year.
I'm not going back to uni this year. Lack of maturity and ability to study would just cause another failure, so I've decided to stay up here in sunny kinloch and work for a year or so, mature up and go back and get some learning done.
Hopefully my time spent up here will be as good for my climbing as it is for my studying.
Anyways, there is some big news and some less big news.
The big news:
I had the best sammich ever today:
It was chicken mayo with all herbs on and stuff. I teamed up with Marc to make it possible.
The less big news is climbing related.
I cleaned up a few lines on a nearby 25/30 foot crag, that lies towards the gorge.
Basically I think a couple of the have been top roped, but I doubt many if any have been lead- the gear is sparse and the holds are very, very dirty (but not any more!).
In my spare time in between shifts, if the weather is nice, I'll be heading across there to TRS those routes instead of heading to the ice factor.
Maybe if I get them wired enough I'll try and lead them, but they are pretty dicey so probably not.
They would probably go at MJ9, MJ10, MJ10, MJ11, and MJ13 (MJ10 being my current climbing level, lets not bring fixxed grades into this, eh?)
Should be fun, and a good way to to have fun while keeping in shape.
It gets dull at the climbing wall sometimes (read: lotsa times)
Anyways, todays word of the day is ILOVEYOU, the name of a computer virus/worm that took advantage of the script used in microsoft word to spread and infect 10% of all computers attached to the internet a few years back.
Intense, huh? Mac users were fine, though. :)
Here's a photo to finish that I stole from failblog.com:
(BTW, anyone looking for a nice flat in edinburgh, across the road from edinburgh bargain store, send me an email, it's £250 a month, gets free 3 bar wifi from appleton tower, and has only one flatmate who is one of the soundest blokes around).
And then watch even more of it dissapear into paying back all the moneyz from last year.
I'm not going back to uni this year. Lack of maturity and ability to study would just cause another failure, so I've decided to stay up here in sunny kinloch and work for a year or so, mature up and go back and get some learning done.
Hopefully my time spent up here will be as good for my climbing as it is for my studying.
Anyways, there is some big news and some less big news.
The big news:
I had the best sammich ever today:
It was chicken mayo with all herbs on and stuff. I teamed up with Marc to make it possible.
The less big news is climbing related.
I cleaned up a few lines on a nearby 25/30 foot crag, that lies towards the gorge.
Basically I think a couple of the have been top roped, but I doubt many if any have been lead- the gear is sparse and the holds are very, very dirty (but not any more!).
In my spare time in between shifts, if the weather is nice, I'll be heading across there to TRS those routes instead of heading to the ice factor.
Maybe if I get them wired enough I'll try and lead them, but they are pretty dicey so probably not.
They would probably go at MJ9, MJ10, MJ10, MJ11, and MJ13 (MJ10 being my current climbing level, lets not bring fixxed grades into this, eh?)
Should be fun, and a good way to to have fun while keeping in shape.
It gets dull at the climbing wall sometimes (read: lotsa times)
Anyways, todays word of the day is ILOVEYOU, the name of a computer virus/worm that took advantage of the script used in microsoft word to spread and infect 10% of all computers attached to the internet a few years back.
Intense, huh? Mac users were fine, though. :)
Here's a photo to finish that I stole from failblog.com:
Monday, 9 June 2008
SO MUCH FAIL!!!!!
ZOMG!
I forgot to get my passport and stuff sorted, then my parents lay down the facts that tey needed help at the hotel etc.etc. ad infinitim, and all that jazz.
Basically this translates to the fact that I'm not getting to the alps this summer.
Gutted
Andy is coming up though, and I've my eye on a few routes around the area, including the awesome looking Prow on the ship boulder:
And a few lines at leven gorge crag. I also really really want to repeat a line there, the diagonal crack (I think it's been done) looks desperate but sooooo appealing! It just screams at you "CLIMB ME! CCCLLLLLIIIMMMBBBBB MEEEEE!!!!" you can already see the moves, and the rests and the gear, and it all just clicks together. clean rock, beautifull setting, and no deck potential! (Over the water!)
:P
Anywhoozlebees, I'm still going to NC in july, which should be cool. It's kinda wierd how much I miss caitlin. Avoiding the sloppy stuff, I saw several good looking lines farther down the river, though some of them seem unprotectable, which would imply bolts, which seems a tad ridiculous.
Andy is bringing his camera so we should get some nice shots taken of our efforts., here are some of the ones from Joe's visit, which was quite alot of fun.
Joe on a still unclimbed project on the anderson boulder.
Me doing the splits so bad it hurt, just to hold that shitty left hand
the incredible cave, too bad the roof is totally blank.
The stern arete of the ship boulder, pinchy!
Another angle on said arete, with Joe showing off his sexy OTC kit.
Joe on "sloper heaven", but you can't see the sloper rail...
Again, with the not seeing the sloper part of "sloper heaven".
Now to steal some photos from the interwebs belonging to joe:
Okay, that didn't work. They were shite anyways.
Laterz, sleep time for me. 7:30 brekky tomorrow, as usual.
I forgot to get my passport and stuff sorted, then my parents lay down the facts that tey needed help at the hotel etc.etc. ad infinitim, and all that jazz.
Basically this translates to the fact that I'm not getting to the alps this summer.
Gutted
Andy is coming up though, and I've my eye on a few routes around the area, including the awesome looking Prow on the ship boulder:
And a few lines at leven gorge crag. I also really really want to repeat a line there, the diagonal crack (I think it's been done) looks desperate but sooooo appealing! It just screams at you "CLIMB ME! CCCLLLLLIIIMMMBBBBB MEEEEE!!!!" you can already see the moves, and the rests and the gear, and it all just clicks together. clean rock, beautifull setting, and no deck potential! (Over the water!)
:P
Anywhoozlebees, I'm still going to NC in july, which should be cool. It's kinda wierd how much I miss caitlin. Avoiding the sloppy stuff, I saw several good looking lines farther down the river, though some of them seem unprotectable, which would imply bolts, which seems a tad ridiculous.
Andy is bringing his camera so we should get some nice shots taken of our efforts., here are some of the ones from Joe's visit, which was quite alot of fun.
Joe on a still unclimbed project on the anderson boulder.
Me doing the splits so bad it hurt, just to hold that shitty left hand
the incredible cave, too bad the roof is totally blank.
The stern arete of the ship boulder, pinchy!
Another angle on said arete, with Joe showing off his sexy OTC kit.
Joe on "sloper heaven", but you can't see the sloper rail...
Again, with the not seeing the sloper part of "sloper heaven".Now to steal some photos from the interwebs belonging to joe:
Okay, that didn't work. They were shite anyways.
Laterz, sleep time for me. 7:30 brekky tomorrow, as usual.
Sunday, 1 June 2008
Summer plans.
Well, I pretty much have my summer planned:
in a week or two hitch to the alps. stay there for a while. july 26-ish, jump on a plan to go see caitlin in north carolina, and see some east coast granite whilst I'm there. (Looking glass rock etc.) and hopefully get a wee trip out to new river gorge whilst in the area.
but first- earn money for the plane and so I can buy gear at cheap american price whilst over there.
by the way, if anyone wants me to pick some kit up for them, I sell at 75% of the UK price, possibly with added P&P if I go overweight.
:)
-MagnuS
story of the day (not for sqeemish): Well, my toe hurt alot over the last few days, and I figured it was just from me stubbing it the other day (nighttime piss break) but it really started to hurt, with pressure. so I cut it open and what do you know, totally packed with pus and infected. gnarly. feels better now, though.
in a week or two hitch to the alps. stay there for a while. july 26-ish, jump on a plan to go see caitlin in north carolina, and see some east coast granite whilst I'm there. (Looking glass rock etc.) and hopefully get a wee trip out to new river gorge whilst in the area.
but first- earn money for the plane and so I can buy gear at cheap american price whilst over there.
by the way, if anyone wants me to pick some kit up for them, I sell at 75% of the UK price, possibly with added P&P if I go overweight.
:)
-MagnuS
story of the day (not for sqeemish): Well, my toe hurt alot over the last few days, and I figured it was just from me stubbing it the other day (nighttime piss break) but it really started to hurt, with pressure. so I cut it open and what do you know, totally packed with pus and infected. gnarly. feels better now, though.
Thursday, 29 May 2008
Back in kinloch + MIDGE INVASION
Well, I'm back in kinlochleven (Mega awesome here) and back at work. But DA-YUM is there alot of midges around here!
My arms are actually on fire. I've got some anti itchy stuff but I'm very nearly out.
I moved out of edinburgh and packed really fast (like an hour) but just noticed thjat I comepletely forgot to take anything out of my wordrobe. GUTTED. Hopefully a friend who's still down there will help me out.
Anyways, I'm well psyched to get some awesome routes done up here, and the weather seems really good.
I've spotted a potential line on the gorge wall that I don't think has been done yet, but it looks desperate. I'll head out on the DM grigri some day and sneak a peak.
Short post this as I'm, still busy settling in, but I'll post again soon to give the lowdown on the new boulders toward the coe and the banter with joe way back in easter.
Word of the day is lazy. I think this word determines the course of more peoples lives, and described the thing that effects the word more than any other word, except maybe greed.
My arms are actually on fire. I've got some anti itchy stuff but I'm very nearly out.
I moved out of edinburgh and packed really fast (like an hour) but just noticed thjat I comepletely forgot to take anything out of my wordrobe. GUTTED. Hopefully a friend who's still down there will help me out.
Anyways, I'm well psyched to get some awesome routes done up here, and the weather seems really good.
I've spotted a potential line on the gorge wall that I don't think has been done yet, but it looks desperate. I'll head out on the DM grigri some day and sneak a peak.
Short post this as I'm, still busy settling in, but I'll post again soon to give the lowdown on the new boulders toward the coe and the banter with joe way back in easter.
Word of the day is lazy. I think this word determines the course of more peoples lives, and described the thing that effects the word more than any other word, except maybe greed.
Tuesday, 13 May 2008
back at uni for a bit.
it's been a while since I last dropped some info on here, but basically not much has happened. I'll write something small about joe and me having a look aorund the climbing in the area but other than that just been at uni studying and chillaxing.
Just finished my last exam, so plenty of time for climbing. not much computer time, thouh. doing this on my GF's computer, not likely to post anymore till around the 25th when she moves back to north carolina. :( but oh well.
Rambling over. climb safely.
Just finished my last exam, so plenty of time for climbing. not much computer time, thouh. doing this on my GF's computer, not likely to post anymore till around the 25th when she moves back to north carolina. :( but oh well.
Rambling over. climb safely.
Friday, 18 April 2008
The big melt.
Gutted.
I watched today as the lovely snow base that had fallen over the last few nights rapidly melted with the high temperatures. Not only have all the buttresses (and gullies for the most part) gone completely out, but the melt-water has wetted many of the lower crags. Joe and I might have a peak round the back of the Old Man and see if the south facing crags are in better shape, but I'm not holding my breath.
Anyways, pulled a nice easy shift today; lots of cool people and I hooked my laptop up to the sound system in the bar so I could shove whatever on. Better still I've switched shifts so I'm not working tonight and will hopefully get a bit of bouldering or trad in with joe tonight.
I got a thrashing from some guy in the bar at darts today, as well. I tried a new stance that seemed better then my last, but I'll have to find a new grip to go with it and get a bit more practice in.
Anyways, young Joseph shall be arriving soon, so I have to clean my room up a bit.
Have fun.
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