This summer has been amazing, and its coming to an end. I’m sitting in the airport of Cape Town, South Africa, waiting for my flight back home to Oslo, Norway where my last year!!! of school is waiting for me with a lot of work. I already missed the two first weeks, as it started on the 18th of august. So, time for a recap of the summer! Part 1: After the boulder WC in Laval, France, where I ended up 45th, Hannah Midtbø and I went to Vingsand to do Talib 8A+, Origins 8A, and a lot of fishing. Eddie Fowke from @theciurcitclimbing, joined us for about a week to enjoy the freshly caught fish, and take amazing pictures that will be featured in The Circuit 2, which will be available later this year. Part 2: The next trip spontaneously started two days after I got home from Vingsand, and the boarding pass said Munich. There i teamed up with my love Tina Hafsaas, and our good friends Michaela Kiersh, Jakob Norum, and Magnus Midtbø. We drove to Briancon to participate in my first lead WC in Briancon, France, and the boulder EYC in L’argentiere. By this time an infection in my wisdom tooth was causing a lot of pain, which made it rather hard to perform. I ended up in 71th and 10th. We drove to Innsbruck and trained for one week before the next challenge, the lead WC in Imst, Austria. My tooth had gotten much better by the time we were in Innsbruck, and the WC in Imst went really good for my lead standards, not having touched a rope since new year in Siurana. After the first technical route I was 18th, but after an expected early fall on the second endurance route I ended up in 35th place. Part 3: The big trip of the year, and what I had been looking forward to for many months, Rocklands. And finally, two days after beeing on Austrian ground, doing a pitstop at home in Oslo for a night, I found myself in a shitty Penny K rental car driving into the paradise of bouldering, Rocklands, with the Hamer’s and Jose Ferrandiz. The first half of the trip was slow and frustrating, trying hard boulders in bad conditions made me feel in bad shape, and the motivation was going down. I decided to do a late solo session on The Vice, I had never been at Fortress, so I had to do the steep 30 min walk alone with three pads for the first time. Finding it first try by hearing my by the time not yet become good french friend Luca’s victory screams from miles away was pure luck. He showed me his beta, and I could do The Vice 8B, on my third try. This felt like a turning point of the trip, I was again motivated to try hard boulders and projects. Stake House 8A+, went down in an hour with no beta and one pad. I felt ready to get back on Mooiste Meisie 8B, a boulder I already invested time in last year. Then finally on my fifth and last day trying Mooiste Meisie this trip, I stood on top of the boulder screaming of happiness. In total I probably invested about ten days in Mooiste Meisie, making it my longest lasting project, and in my eyes my biggest achievement. Peace
Posted on: Thu, 28 Aug 2014 07:06:34 +0000
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