An escape from training!

We have collected a little bit of footage from some trips to Parisella's cave and our good friend Mark Young has kindly put it together for us into a short film! Hope you enjoy it :)

Scousers in the Cave

End of Summer Bouldering Comp

The first of what will hopefully be many End of summer bouldering comps took place at our own homeground of the Climbing Hangar yesterday afternoon.

Andy cruising the P.E. Roof problem

There was a bigger than expected turnout, no doubt helped by the terrible rain storms sweeping across the North West.

In the Men's category, Rich won by the slimmest of margins, scoring 273/300 and edging out the visiting youthful beast Nathan Phillips by a mere 3 points.

Becky won the women's category with 181, with Laura taking 2nd place on 162.

Becky on the very droppable techy corner

The Junior Male saw a super tight finish with Michael finishing joint 1st with Sam 'sheepy' Williams on 254. This meant a super final climb off for 1st place, which was a timed lap of the Orange linkup route. Sam's route climbing background and high levels of stamina made all the difference as he won by around 10 seconds from Michael who has lately been focussing more on weights at the Pro Flex gymnasium and table football ;)

His table football skills paid off though as he won the open table footy tournament and hence a shiny new Core fingerboard.



Rich finishing the hard groove into steep wall problem
for a crucial 3 points



In the Junior Girls our team members dominated again with Olivia finishing in 1st place just ahead of Megan.

Michael speed climbing to 2nd place

The comp went smoothly and raised the bar for future events at the Hangar. Hopefully a new longer format of Monday night team training sessions will help us push on a bit and perform to a higher level at the various winter series being run later this year.

Many thanks to Sara Walters for the images!