Verbier, Switzerland

Monday, 11 September 2006
I am feeling quite banged up after the last couple weeks of bouldering, brushing and bolting. I am most certainly resting, as I must focus on mending my battle wounds! I am so sore, not only from eating shit on rocks, scraping my knuckles like 400 times, but most especially from trying the boulders I have recently discovered and cleaned. They happen to be all incredibly steep, roofs more or less, and I am slowly working towards regaining the 5 kilos of muscle I lost while being injured. After graduating from the Bas Valais lifestyle, I have positioned myself here in Verbier, known normally as a massive luxury winter-sports scene in the off-season, and currently a virtual ghost town, with only good friends working about, and private companies building $30 million chalets! All you hear is hammers, electric saws and helicopters. It’s kind of weird. 

Since I have recovered from my recent dishwashing accident (which was not funny) I have decided there are three projects that I can actually do out of everything I have been scoping. I tried one route on a massive, overhanging boulder in a river that I equipped and it was absolutely heinous. Maybe 9b? I could do all the moves but one, and as it’s got really hard moves I wasn’t too bummed, but I will have to let that one pass for another season. On to the doable things…