First rope climbing session of the year

Top rope life

Finally an evening session in Kletterhalle. It is an enormous place with quite high indoor walls (there are some outdoors too, but it is still cold).

I was with Christoph and started with some top roping on the rock like feature walls upstairs. Done some easy 5's, which somehow felt quite hard. I don't think I'm in any shape right now.

Try the 6c, why not

After the initial warm up we saw that the overhang orange 6a+ is busy (the second session where we think about doing it), so we headed over to the back and found two nice routes. One 6a and one 6a+, also a good looking 6c.

I was sure that the 6c was not that hard for it's grade, so gave it a go. Until the small roof it went quite well, but I could feel the pump in my arms. I had a rest on two nice holds and tried to go for it. But there is one move, which looked impossible to me. After a rest on the rope I managed to pull myself up and finish it, it definitely felt like a battle.

The two 6a's were hard after I was already pumped, also managed to not see some holds on the way, so I got to rest on the rope around the same height as on the 6c.

Overall a very nice start for the lead climbing part of the year.