Climbing

we did a few routes with Simon, Vanessa, a guy from work and all the kids. It was a gray day, but St. Egreve is very well set up to climb with kids. The Rocheplaine park is two minutes from the base of the cliff! I was expecting to not feel any exertion at all on the 6a+, what with our months of training, but it still felt a little bit hard. Chloe, by contrast, seems to have really benefitted from the training, and had no problems at all. The next few weeks (which is when we should theoretically be at our peaks) should be interesting. We trained sub-lactate threshold endurance in January, and power in February and the beginning of march, so next comes power endurance.

Another cool thing: for the past year I had been hearing rumors of a new crag at St. Egreve, and had seen various climbers walking up trails on the left side of the mountain (where the really isn't anything except an old crag with very difficult routes). Today, while I was looking after kids in the park, I finally saw where the new crag is! It looks like there might be some nice overhanging rock to the left. Woo!

Also, I found a wonderful site comparing the suitability of various climbing sites for kids:
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