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Rain and First Ascents

06.09.2008

The weather in Finland has been very rainy lately but I’ve managed to put up a couple of new problems. One of them is in the Vihti area which I named Optical Illusion because it looks really easy but infact it is probably 8A. The other one has been a project for a long time. Actually there was a problem called Hottentotti and it was 8A from the stand start and 8A+ from the sit, but the problem ended in the middle of the wall. My new line called 1up is the obvious line from the sit start straight up all the way to the top at about 8 meters height with a bad landing. I don’t think the top part is hard enough to make it 8B so it stays a very solid 8A+ and scary too. We did a big night filming session with a film crew plus two photographers so there should be some cool footage of the ascent. The short film we made might premiere in the Reel Rock Tour in Helsinki 13.9. We’ll see. Right now I’m on my way to Arco Rock Masters in Italy and after that we are going to Switzerland to do some bouldering and filming for the movie Pure. Ciao!

Photos by Heikki Toivanen

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