Here is a little video from a weekend trip to Västervik. Hope you enjoy.
Västervik Bouldering: Five Problems from Walker Kearney on Vimeo.
Monday, April 29, 2013
Saturday, April 13, 2013
Tunablocket
Tunablocket is perhaps the best boulder in the Västervik area. The compact red granite makes for great climbing and nearly every problem on the boulder is classic. The only bad thing is that the boulder is 20 minutes from the next boulders (at least until closer ones are found).
Here are a couple pictures.
Here are a couple pictures.
Mike on Roadaret.
Setting up for the crux slap of Itchy.
Fredrik trying tall man beta
According to Raz (the man behind 95% of the development around Västervik) this arete to the right of King's Speech was undone. If so I may have nabbed a sweet FA and if so I'm dubbing the problem King Louie. It is a sweet addition to Tunablocket and I'm amazed it hasn't been done.
Thursday, April 11, 2013
Back at it: Västervik
The weather in Sweden has been unnaturally good as the month of March set a record for sunshine and I have a hard time remembering the last time it rained. Crazy.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to take full advantage of the weather due to injuries and a rare lack of motivation. The injuries (elbow and hamstring) have certainly been a damper on motivation but as they get better I find my motivation was remaining low. The lack of psyche has been a bit disconcerting so last weekend I took a quick trip to Västervik to try to get out of my funk. I think the trip worked as just knowing I was going to climb on some new problems got me jazzed and now several days after the trip I am still amped . This return to my motivated self will certainly translate into the blog resuming it's semi-frequent posting.
Here are a couple pictures from Västervik.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to take full advantage of the weather due to injuries and a rare lack of motivation. The injuries (elbow and hamstring) have certainly been a damper on motivation but as they get better I find my motivation was remaining low. The lack of psyche has been a bit disconcerting so last weekend I took a quick trip to Västervik to try to get out of my funk. I think the trip worked as just knowing I was going to climb on some new problems got me jazzed and now several days after the trip I am still amped . This return to my motivated self will certainly translate into the blog resuming it's semi-frequent posting.
Here are a couple pictures from Västervik.
Mike working Nikita at Mommehål. Västervik still has quite a bit of snow which was a bit limiting in which areas we visited. Fortunately there are plenty of areas that were climbable and the temps were perfect
Fredrik on Given to Fly. This little gem sits off by itself but is still worth a quick visit if you're in the area.
Given to Fly
Fredrik celebrates the send. He had a mini-epic but pulled through in the end.
Mike in steep country on Sourze at Marstrand
Primitive was one of those problems I figured I couldn't do. Amazingly I stopped whining about being too short and just did it.
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