December in Font

As some of you know I have been in Fontainebleau for the past few weeks and it has been a blast. A lot of climbing, despite the constant bad weather. Everything went well until a coupe of days ago. I started to feel strong again and crushed a few hard problems here. I was thinking of trying harder boulders since my trip was close to it's end. Unfortunately, I have the feeling that I won't be able to climb that much anymore... -->

The flapper that put an ending to my climbing in font. / Pic by Alvi Pakarinen

I leave on the 20th, back to Finland to spend Christmas at home, so I won't even have time to heal my skin before I leave. But hopefully I'll get to come back here and try to finish off some of the many projects here.

Even tough I won't be able to climb anything now, I still think that my trip has been a success. I've made new acquaintances and also plans to climb with them next year.

Rain in Ffont, blue skies in Paris. / Pic by Alvi Pakarinen

Here's a few of the climbs that I have been able to send during my trip to Font;

Khéops 8B
L'apparemment en départ bas 8B
Ubik assis 8B
Sideways daze 8B
Atrésie assis 8A+
Karma 8A+
Gourmandise raccourci 8A+
Imothep 8A
Le Mandarin 8A


 Have a good holiday and happy new year!

Quick update from my trip to Switzerland and Austria

Our crib in Claro, Switzerland.

I arrived here two weeks ago and met up with Daniel Woods, Courtney Sanders, Sean McColl and Paul Robinson. I was really excited about climbing with all these amazing climbers! Everyone climbed hard boulders but especially Sean took it down by crushing New Base Line, The Dagger and Big Paw in a quick manner. And almost a week ago he left Swizzy and went on to Kranj for the lead worldcup. I honestly wasn’t even surprised when I read from the news that he had won the comp. He looked so strong and confident whilst climbing with us that he would for sure do well in Kranj. Congrats Sean!

Yesterday was the first time I went bouldering to Silvretta, Austria. We drove up and it was soooo cold out there. My toes were frozen after just half an hour of being outside. First we headed to Niviuk 8A for some warming up. I did a few pull ups from some jugs and thought that I won’t get any warmer than this. I got lucky and climbed it on my flash go. I couldn’t feel my fingers after the couple first moves, but decided to still go for it! Next in line was a really cool 7C+ called British Airways which both me and Paul flashed. After that we started working on the main attraction, Anam Cara 8B+. We both did the moves pretty fast and started trying it from the beginning. I managed to do it quickly. It only took me four tries and I believe it was the sixth ascent.

Anam Cara 8B+, Still from Paul Robinson

Guntram Jörg also joined us a couple of days ago. He has been climbing really well during the last couple of months and it was really cool to see him in action. He sent Big Paw today and it looked effortless! An hour or so after Gu’s ascent, Daniel did it as well. It was impressive to watch them both on it. It get’s me all hopped up and excited to try hard stuff too!

Making the fire at the crib.

We will all be heading to Fontainebleau in the beginning of december. I’ll try to post something on my blog if something comes up.

Here’s a small list of the things I’ve done during the past two weeks:

Voigas 8A+

No Mystery 8A

Schule des Lebens 8A+

Arete with a Pocket 8A

Dreamtime stand 8A+

No name 8A

Rosswell 8A+

Amber 8B

Teamwork 8A

Niviuk 8A, Flash

British Airways 7C+, Flash

Anam Cara 8B+                          

A few weeks in Fontainebleau, France

Hey y'all!

It's been a while since my last post. But since then, nothing really happened? So you guys haven't missed anything.

This spring I went to Fontainebleau for the first time and it was magnificent! There really is nothing like it! We were quite a few people from Finland, so that made the climbingscene even more enjoyable. Great friends and perfect climbing climbing. What else do you need? :P

I also went to Melloblocco in the beginning of this month. It was a amazing happening! I've never seen so many climbers in one place at the same time. Incredible :D. And to top the good weather, beautiful scenary it so happens that I came 3rd on the competition by climbing 5 out of 8 boulders and flashing 3 of them. It was a total surprise that I managed to do so well!

Here are some pics from random Fontainebleau boulders:

Vin Rouge 7A

Tigre et Dragon 8A, Photo by Nalle Hukkataival

Random boulder at Isatis

Concentrating on the small holds of Duel 8A, Photo by Kuutti Heikkilä

Trying Karma, Photo by Kuutti Heikkilä

Here's also a short flick my friend filmed during the trip! Check it out! :D

Monkee Family: Anthony Gullsten in Font from Alvi Pakarinen on Vimeo.