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Here is a small photo collection with some of the most important moments, since I started climbing... Hope you enjoy!
New Year but everything still remains the same!
I spend the last week of 2011 fighting again with my project at Sagres, but nothing new happened! The truth is I don’t have much experience in this kind of difficulty, especially in such a bouldery route, with hard balancy moves where you have to be 100% precise. So, I thought I was very close to do it, and maybe I am, but close it’s just not enough!
For the last three months I tried the route almost every week, falling over and over again, just two moves from the success, but it’s hard to keep motivated when you don’t see any progression, and you just keep falling on the exactly same move. I would say, that the last maybe thirty tries, I didn’t progress not even a centimeter. GGGRRRR…
I guess I just have to get stronger, so I decided to have a brake and do some boulder. Sintra forest was for me, the first contact with bouldering, because it’s so near from Lisbon I remember I went there a lot when I was 16. Sometimes I even went there before the classes start, like 7:00 am. At that time, Sintra was a great place to bouldering, with two main sectors and with dozens of incredible lines. But today, Sintra it’s a super developed area, with thousands of opened lines from rough granite to almost sandstone rock… It’s like a perfect gym!
More info: www.bouldersintra.wordpress.com/
Coming close
Coming close...
This past month I’ve been doing short trips to what we call the south-western point of Europe, Sagres. The further you can go on this side of the continent!
Sagres it’s definitely one of my all time favourite areas here in Portugal, maybe it’s the Atlantic Ocean beneath you and the strong wind that seems unstoppable... there’s something in this place that brings me a sense of wilderness that I love. Maybe it’s just the surfer girls... :p
It fills really good to have the opportunity to climb in such a perfect place, special in something that I’ve put up, something that I was searching for, something in my limit, and this one definitely is...The only problem with having bolt a project in such a remote place, it’s to find people who can climb with. Since there’s no climbing community around Sagres, I always have problems to find people who can climb with! I already dragged a few friends from Lisbon, that is about 300Km from Sagres and most of the times it’s just for two or three days of climbing. It’s part of the process but it’s being a hard process! JHowever, I made good progress on the route and I’m feeling really close on it, let’s see what happen...
Enjoy the photos from the talented photographer and friend Ricardo Alves.
