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Don’t worry, our bricks and mortar shop is still at The Foundry in Sheffield and staffed by all the familiar faces.

Our website however has moved to www.cragxclimbing.com so please update your favourites to ensure we are still your first stop for online shopping.

Saturday April 25th. With climbers from 7 to 15 competing on 3 routes and 3 boulder problems each it will be a busy day. Registration from 9am. The centre is still open but access to some wall areas will be restricted hence a lower entry fee for non competiton customers.

All had to lead 5 routes each in thier respective categories of Improver (6a,6a+,6b,6b+6c) , Recreational (6b+,6c,7a,7b,7c), and Elite (7a,7b,7c,8a,8b). With as many attempts as they wanted as long as it was always ground up with no practice of the bit above where they fell off. This meant lots of climbing for all concerned. There were 9 routes on the Foundry ‘Five ten’ Main wall and another 6 in the less steeply angled Furnace. All competitors got to climb on both walls up the steepest bits!

Rob Napier and Dan Walker set the routes which were checked out by Steve Mcclure to make for an excellent selection with lots of volumes and tufas to add to the interest.

The 3 categories were split into male/female over 16 and male/female under 16. Meaning their would be 4 winners in each category. Prizes were also given to 2nd and 3rd. CragX Climbing shop sponsored the event with lots of great kit for the Improver and Recreational categories plus money(!) for the Elite climbers from the BMC.

Particularly strong performances by Tara Hayes and Sarah Pashley in the under 16’s improvers who had to go to a superfinal in front of all the other competitors and parents! As it happened they both battled their way up the 7a+ to the same hold and a draw was declared!

In the Elite under 16’s Jonathan Stocking pulled out all the stops on the 8b to get a couple of metres off the top, being ejected off the final tufa. Very impressive stuff as the next best effort on this route was Adrian Baxter who won the mens elite with a great effort but not beating Jonathans high point.

Well done to all the competitors and a big thanks to all the volunteer helpers (mostly parents of the climbers!), Rob Adie and Rab Carrington from the BMC and of course The Foundry Staff.

Winners
Elite
m – Adrian Baxter
f – Beth Monks
u16m – Jonathan Stocking
u16f – Shauna Coxsey

Recreational
m – Craig Bailey, Paul Walters, Dale Comely (1st =)
f – Joanna Goorney
u16m – Sean Hopkins
u16f – Jaime Davidson

Improver
m – Mike Bean
f – Donna Carless
u16m – Sam Brannigan
u16f – Sarah Pashley, Tara Hayes (1st=)

Full results and images on www.cragxclimbing.com and images at www.foundryclimbing.blogspot.com and

The 3 categories are Improver doing 6a, 6a+, 6b, 6b+, 6c. Recreational doing 6b+, 6c, 7a, 7b, 7c and Elite doing 7a, 7b, 7c, 8a, 8b. There will be 15 routes in total so two of 6b+, 6c, 7a, 7b and 7c. There will be prizes for top 3 in each category amle/female and under 16m/f.

From Easter (11th April) The Foundry will close at 6pm on weekend evenings.

Easter Weekend
Good Friday: 10am-8pm
Saturday/Sunday: 10am-6pm
Easter Monday: 10am-8pm

Evolv Rock Boot Demo
5pm-9.30pm, Wednesday 11th March

This is your chance to “try before you buy” and get your feet in a pair of Evolv climbing shoes. It’s free to try the shoes, just pay your normal fee to climb then borrow pair from the stand in the main climbing hall.

Anyone who tries a pair of demo shoes will be entered into a FREE raffle to win a pair of Evolv shoes.

Evolv are available from CragX @ The Foundry

Core climbing holds Red Point challenge. We have some new holds from Core, a new hold maufacturer. There will be two routes set on the main wall, a 7b+/c and an 8a+ which you will have from eveing of Monday 23rd to the evening of Thursday 19th March. The first person to successfully red point each route will receive a Core finger board! If you normally easily red point above the 7c/+ level the you will be expected to try the harder route only as far as claiming any prize is concerned!

Well done to all who entered the Sheffield Walls Bouldering League.
Remember you will only be listed in the final results if you entered all four rounds.

R Mosley – 890 – 1st Male
D Skoczylas – 888 – 2nd Male
J Merz – 801 – 3rd Male
L Crane (F) – 766 – 1st Female
L Tilley – 730
D Merrick (F) – 722 – 2nd Female
D Withey – 692
R Cowie (F) – 646 – 3rd Female
T Melius (F) – 629
N Phillips (jnr) – 610 – 1st Jnr Male
G Whittle – 588
P Forrest – 566
N Milinkovic (jnr F) – 502 – 1st Jnr Female
F Blok (F) – 497
T Bonnert (jnr) – 485 – 2nd Jnr Male
H Murray (jnr F) – 300 – 2nd Jnr Female

Prizes can be collected from Climbing Works:

1st Male/Female – £50 cash and Annual Membership to all four Sheffield Walls
2nd Male/Female – £50 cash and 3 months Membership to all four Sheffield Walls
3rd Male/Female – 1 month Membership to all four Sheffield Walls

1st Jnr Male/Female – Annual Membership to all four Sheffield Walls
2nd Jnr Male/Female – 3 months Membership to all four Sheffield Walls

John Ostrovski from The Clinic will be at The Foundry to give free short physio consultations to Foundry members.

Find more about John at www.919clinic.co.uk (0114 2501162).

Well done to everyone who entered any round of the league.
For those of you still wanting to compete, the final round of SWBL is at Climbing Works on 13th February.

Results from round 3

D Skoczylas – 182
J Merz – 171
A Hutchison – 167
L Crane (F) – 159
B Morton – 158
K Whittaker (F) – 154
D merrick (F) – 154
L Porter – 153
R Cowie (F) – 150
T Melius (F) – 145
N Phillips (jnr) – 145
N Milinkovic (jnr F) – 138
D Withey – 137
R Hall (jnr F) – 129
C Moran – 128
T Bonnert (jnr) – 125
I Stewart (jnr) – 125
J Sheard (jnr) – 125
J Beech (jnr) – 110
J Peter – 105
T Hutchinson – 105
M Holmes (jnr) – 91
H Murray (jnr F) – 89
S Honick – 81
J Carr – 80
A Hall (jnr F) – 80
M Ratcliffe – 79
M Aspinall (jnr) – 79
R Sellman – 77
B Hoyland (jnr F) – 75
T Whitehouse – 74
T Hopkinson – 69
S Whitehouse (F) – 67
J James (jnr) 60
K Dorset – 53
G Hoyland (jnr F) – 45
S Hall – 41
R Bonnert – 40
L Clarkson (jnr F) – 28

League Prize Winners
(please ask at Foundry reception to collect your voucher)

D Skoczylas (585) – 1st male – 90day Foundry membership
J Merz (570) – 2nd male – 30day Foundry membership
B Morton (555) – 3rd male – £20 CragX voucher

D Merrick (516) – 1st female – 90day Foundry membership
L Crane (494) – 2nd female – 30day Foundry membership
R Cowie (482) – 3rd female – £20 CragX voucher

N Phillips (437) – 1st junior male – 30day Foundry membership
J Sheard (387) – 2nd junior male – £10 CragX voucher

N Milinkovic (395) – 1st junior female – 30day Foundry membership
R Hall (370) – 2nd jnr female – £10 CragX voucher

Full results from the league are on display at The Foundry. (life is too short, to type out the names of all 91 competitors!)