<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497</id><updated>2012-02-01T11:06:33.106+01:00</updated><category term='chironico'/><category term='ailefroide'/><category term='Amiata'/><category term='rocklands'/><category term='ceriola'/><category term='lagoni'/><category term='fontainebleau'/><category term='peak district'/><category term='cresciano'/><category term='brione'/><category term='pietra del toro'/><title type='text'>Michele Caminati Blog</title><subtitle type='html'></subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>31</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-3069981835681496623</id><published>2012-02-01T10:58:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T11:06:33.299+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Amiata'/><title type='text'>Amiata Boulder video</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r9Jcpwb-GBA/TykN-vUEW1I/AAAAAAAAAUs/P1Ld204U3J8/s1600/tramonto-nebbia-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r9Jcpwb-GBA/TykN-vUEW1I/AAAAAAAAAUs/P1Ld204U3J8/s640/tramonto-nebbia-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Hi, two weeks have past now since I got back from Amiata and I've been working night and day to edit this video... it has been a hard work, the end of two months of climbing, cleaning, shooting and now... editing. It seems that I've been quite lucky with weather as now everything is under snow!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;So if you're stuck home and cannot move try to warm up this winter with this short movie about sunny Tuscany. I've put two months of life on it, hope you will enjoy.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="253" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/35979020?byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="450"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;If you prefer the Youtube version you can find it &lt;a href="http://youtu.be/7YACxJ1MM2A?hd=1" target="_blank"&gt;here&lt;/a&gt;, and&amp;nbsp;if you want to plan a visit there don't forget to check out the &lt;a href="http://maps.google.it/maps/ms?msid=200919277027097909220.0004b70cebb874c4497ad&amp;amp;msa=0" target="_blank"&gt;map&lt;/a&gt; I've made on Google.﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-3069981835681496623?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/3069981835681496623/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2012/02/amiata-boulder-video.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/3069981835681496623'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/3069981835681496623'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2012/02/amiata-boulder-video.html' title='Amiata Boulder video'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-r9Jcpwb-GBA/TykN-vUEW1I/AAAAAAAAAUs/P1Ld204U3J8/s72-c/tramonto-nebbia-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-9128867996925381339</id><published>2012-01-22T02:51:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2012-01-22T15:39:10.956+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Amiata'/><title type='text'>Winter in Amiata - Part 2</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;E' fatta. Giovedì 19 gennaio&amp;nbsp;sono riuscito finalmente a salire in cima al mio progetto. Sensazione strana dopo che si è stati due mesi a provare e riprovare quei pochi movimenti,&amp;nbsp;compiendo sempre gli stessi riti preparatori e riaprendosi inesorabilmente gli stessi buchi nelle dita... ma&amp;nbsp;come al solito&amp;nbsp;non mollo e&amp;nbsp;i blocchi li prendo per sfinimento, questa volta proprio nell' ultima giornata utile prima di dover tornare a casa, dove mi sarei&amp;nbsp;voluto prendere una bella&amp;nbsp;pausa per non diventare matto, o quantomeno non compromettere&amp;nbsp;ulteriormente il mio stato di salute mentale...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lANQ1WVbjQ4/TxronEEq9kI/AAAAAAAAATs/rJbMRyFfcIw/s1600/ultimo-futura-3-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lANQ1WVbjQ4/TxronEEq9kI/AAAAAAAAATs/rJbMRyFfcIw/s640/ultimo-futura-3-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Quasi due mesi quest' anno e un paio di settimane lo scorso inverno... saranno circa 30 giorni di tentativi effettivi, su questa roccia tanto bella quanto abrasiva e differente dai miei amati svasi di Ceriola o Fontainebleau. Per quanto mi riguarda non ho mai salito nulla che mi abbia richiesto tanti sforzi, ma si sa, l'arrampicata è bella perchè è varia, e a volte per esplorare il proprio limite è anche bello cimentarsi sulle cose che più ti respingono, in più ho avuto il piacere di poterlo fare in un posto che mi ha ripagato con la sua bellezza di ogni giornata sprecata in inutili tentativi (magari pure con il metodo sbagliato).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dk_Xvy99zfc/TxrpQVWiYwI/AAAAAAAAAT0/sQ07JWZM69s/s1600/castagne-ricci-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Dk_Xvy99zfc/TxrpQVWiYwI/AAAAAAAAAT0/sQ07JWZM69s/s640/castagne-ricci-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ora trovo difficile dare un grado a questo blocco, anche perchè la sua difficoltà è tutta concentrata in uno strano lancio in cui conta molto riuscire a spingere bene sui piedi, ed in cui misure ed allungo possono fare la differenza. Per me è stata una bella sfida, e potrei proporre per "l'Ultimo dei Moicani" 8b+, nonostante mi sia risultato molto più difficile di ogni altro blocco che ho salito di quel grado. Sono convinto che non si tratti propriamente del mio stile di arrampicata, ed invito quindi a provarlo a chiunque abbia voglia di cimentarsi, esprimendo seriamente le sue opinioni riguardo alla difficoltà. Anzi spero proprio che si venga all' Amiata per visitare i suoi mille paesi, per assaggiare i buoni prodotti locali, vedere le sue strane rocce, e provare le linee che più colpiscano la fantasia, non certo per tornare a casa con una serie di nomi e gradi annotati su un taccuino.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EjrigY3Mk0o/Txrq8wCmtqI/AAAAAAAAAT8/A6Yd3alJv_E/s1600/normale-chiesina-1-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="330" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-EjrigY3Mk0o/Txrq8wCmtqI/AAAAAAAAAT8/A6Yd3alJv_E/s450/normale-chiesina-1-1.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qHDXSSY5P2o/Txrro3MstPI/AAAAAAAAAUE/07mY9zSbPLI/s1600/tepolini-trad-1-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="330" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-qHDXSSY5P2o/Txrro3MstPI/AAAAAAAAAUE/07mY9zSbPLI/s450/tepolini-trad-1-1.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Questo è quello che ho fatto in fondo in questi due mesi invernali, ho vissuto questo angolo di Toscana, scattato fotografie, fatto nuove amicizie e dato libero sfogo alla mia voglia di arrampicare, aprendo un paio di facili vie trad e cercando in lungo e in largo nuovi sassi su cui poter giocare in futuro. La passione si nutre tanto di sforzi e sacrifici, quanto di gioco, scoperta e fantasia.&amp;nbsp;Non è forse un caso che sono riuscito a chiudere il mio progetto proprio pochi giorni dopo aver trovato l'area che ho visto tante volte nei miei sogni, e in cui ho già individuato la nuova linea, il nuovo progetto che temo e spero mi saprà dare altrettanto filo da torcere come L'Ultimo dei Moicani.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-3bfxj7jOU/Txrs8-evofI/AAAAAAAAAUM/ek-G0jhJUo8/s1600/seggiano-autunno-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-F-3bfxj7jOU/Txrs8-evofI/AAAAAAAAAUM/ek-G0jhJUo8/s640/seggiano-autunno-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Sto lavorando ora al video che saprà raccontare molto meglio delle mie parole i blocchi del monte Amiata, l'Ultimo dei Moicani e questa esperienza. Per ora vi faccio vedere il video che avevo montato l'anno scorso prima ancora di aver chiuso il boulder, quando ancora non avevo idea dell' odiessea in cui si sarebbe trasformato.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Un saluto a tutti quelli che mi hanno fatto compagnia e che mi hanno sopportato in questo inverno Senese-Amiatino.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-klI0j5xwczE/TxruR_t6imI/AAAAAAAAAUU/UYKmyoMEH0o/s1600/azzeccagarbugli-mik-1-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-klI0j5xwczE/TxruR_t6imI/AAAAAAAAAUU/UYKmyoMEH0o/s640/azzeccagarbugli-mik-1-2.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;It's done. The 19th of January I've finally managed to climb my project. Strange feeling after you've been trying the same few moves for about two months, having the same warm up rituals, and reopening the same holes in your fingers... but as usual I don't give up and the boulders seem to get tired before me. This time happened on the very last day before going back home, where I was planning to get some rest to escape from mental madness...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Almost two months this winter and a couple of weeks the last... it should be more or less 30 days of effective work on this strange kind of rock, as beautiful as sharp, and way different from my beloved slopers of Ceriola and Fontainebleau. I feel I have never climbed something that asked me so much effort before. Climbing is beautiful because it can vary a lot, and sometimes to explore your limits you have to try hard on the things that most reject you. I've had the pleasure to do that in a place that refunded me with its beauty of every single day of useless efforts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7tZ2ifm2YJA/Txrvz3RYb0I/AAAAAAAAAUc/LCuwINxdOZc/s1600/villa-tramonto-campo-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7tZ2ifm2YJA/Txrvz3RYb0I/AAAAAAAAAUc/LCuwINxdOZc/s640/villa-tramonto-campo-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Now I find it hard to grade this boulder, even more because its difficulty concentrates in a strange dynamic move where it matters how well you can push on your feet, and where measures and reach can really make the difference. To me it has been a real challange, and I will suggest 8b+ for "&lt;b&gt;l'Ultimo dei Moicani&lt;/b&gt;", even if I found it much harder of anything else I've done with that grade. I'm sure it's not my kind of climbing and I invite everyone who will like to try to honestly express his opinion about the difficulty. Even better, I hope people will come to Amiata to visit its thousand villages, taste good local products, see its strange rocks and climb the lines that most will hit their imagination. Not just to come back home with a list of names and grades on their logbook.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TepnU7GAnCs/Txvb_DQ2Y-I/AAAAAAAAAUk/SLWItONnhaU/s1600/ultimo-21mm-2-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-TepnU7GAnCs/Txvb_DQ2Y-I/AAAAAAAAAUk/SLWItONnhaU/s640/ultimo-21mm-2-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;That's in the end what I've done during this two months: I've lived this part of Tuscany, taken pictures, made new friends and let my will of climbing free, opening a couple of nice and easy trad routes and wandering around to find new rocks where to play in future. Passion feeds of efforts and sacrifice as much as of fun, discovery and fantasy. It is no coincidence that I've been able to send my project just a few days later I found the spot that I've always dreamt of, and where I've already identified the new line, the new project that I fear and hope will give me a hard time as much as L'Ultimo dei Moicani did.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="350" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" scrolling="no" src="http://maps.google.it/maps/ms?msa=0&amp;amp;msid=200919277027097909220.0004b70cebb874c4497ad&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;vpsrc=6&amp;amp;ll=42.903131,11.57444&amp;amp;spn=0.08802,0.154495&amp;amp;z=12&amp;amp;output=embed" width="450"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;small&gt;Open&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.it/maps/ms?msa=0&amp;amp;msid=200919277027097909220.0004b70cebb874c4497ad&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;vpsrc=6&amp;amp;ll=42.903131,11.57444&amp;amp;spn=0.08802,0.154495&amp;amp;z=12&amp;amp;source=embed" style="color: blue; text-align: left;"&gt;Amiata Boulder&lt;/a&gt; in a new window&lt;/small&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I am now working on the video that will tell better than my words the boulders around monte Amiata, L'Ultimo dei Moicani and this whole experience. At the moment you can watch old footage I've quickly edited last year before actually sending the project, when I still didn't imagine the odyssey it would have become....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="253" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/35418816?byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="450"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-9128867996925381339?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/9128867996925381339/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2012/01/winter-in-amiata-part-2.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/9128867996925381339'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/9128867996925381339'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2012/01/winter-in-amiata-part-2.html' title='Winter in Amiata - Part 2'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lANQ1WVbjQ4/TxronEEq9kI/AAAAAAAAATs/rJbMRyFfcIw/s72-c/ultimo-futura-3-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total><georss:featurename>58033 Castel del Piano GR, Italia</georss:featurename><georss:point>42.8911111 11.539536999999996</georss:point><georss:box>42.8388481 11.437461499999996 42.94337410000001 11.641612499999995</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-5607139006618319314</id><published>2012-01-08T21:11:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2012-02-01T10:37:27.888+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Amiata'/><title type='text'>Winter in Amiata - Part 1</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JLcq4L4NptY/TwieJ2xcW1I/AAAAAAAAATM/IS1-iRcKD2M/s1600/montegiovi-distant-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JLcq4L4NptY/TwieJ2xcW1I/AAAAAAAAATM/IS1-iRcKD2M/s600/montegiovi-distant-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Dicembre, tempo di freddo, umido e&amp;nbsp;neve... ma il tempo sembra essersi fermato ad Ottobre qui in Toscana e le giornate sono quasi sempre calde ed assolate.&amp;nbsp;Ho fatto spesso avanti-indietro da Parma alla mia casa di Siena per venire a provare un progetto che già credevo di poter fare l'anno scorso ma&amp;nbsp;che si è rivelato ben&amp;nbsp;più duro del previsto,&amp;nbsp;e che&amp;nbsp;ora con queste temperature&amp;nbsp;surreali&amp;nbsp;si sta letteralmente prendendo gioco di me, lasciandomi sempre a bocca asciutta da ormai piu di un mese...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uJogNdKf2aU/TwieXAr77-I/AAAAAAAAATU/kWvVN9_dneA/s1600/achille-mik-7-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-uJogNdKf2aU/TwieXAr77-I/AAAAAAAAATU/kWvVN9_dneA/s600/achille-mik-7-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Poco male, tanto io non mollo così facilmente e&amp;nbsp;quando faceva&amp;nbsp;troppo caldo,&amp;nbsp;ho colto&amp;nbsp;l'occasione di girare il più possibile per i castagneti e i faggeti del monte Amiata in cerca di qualche altro progetto interessante. Fortunatamente&amp;nbsp;ho potuto&amp;nbsp;contare sulla guida di Giulio, che fra i castagni vive e lavora da sempre, e di Bengio che da un paio di anni si è spostato da Firenze&amp;nbsp;su questo monte, e oltre che a pulire e liberare parecchi blocchi e vie, ha aperto con la sua ragazza Manuela un bellissimo locale nel centro di Santa Fiora, "Il Club dell' Olmo", dove è possibile bere un buon bicchiere di vino, mangiare qualche piatto tipico, o semplicemente riprendersi dalle fatiche dell' arrampicata immergendosi nell' atmosfera calda e accogliente di questi paesi.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zUUcfwQQWOI/TwifUMcgL4I/AAAAAAAAATc/aJ65claLDvY/s1600/menestrello-gruppo-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zUUcfwQQWOI/TwifUMcgL4I/AAAAAAAAATc/aJ65claLDvY/s600/menestrello-gruppo-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Così, spostandosi a diverse altitudini in base alla meteo, per ora ho ripetuto&amp;nbsp;parecchi&amp;nbsp;fra i passaggi più belli&amp;nbsp;della zona e sono riuscito a liberare alcuni&amp;nbsp;progetti&amp;nbsp;fra cui spiccano "&lt;strong&gt;Il Gioco della Bottiglia&lt;/strong&gt;" 8a al settore di Case Marchi, e "&lt;strong&gt;Achille&lt;/strong&gt;" una bellissima palla strapiombante di 8a+ nel settore della vetta (oltre 1500mt) dove comunque siamo riusciti a scalare qualche giorno&amp;nbsp;in maglietta&amp;nbsp;nonostante le sporadiche nevicate.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e9XBZz52Seg/TwijTLdgi2I/AAAAAAAAATk/lYgQnBsJL40/s1600/ultimo-24mm-4-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-e9XBZz52Seg/TwijTLdgi2I/AAAAAAAAATk/lYgQnBsJL40/s600/ultimo-24mm-4-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Durante il capodanno anche i fidi amici Vicentini sono venuti a farmi visita, portando con la loro carica stimoli sempre nuovi per cercare e pulire sassi su questa strana roccia vulcanica. Stiamo quindi lavorando per voi (ma anche un po' per noi lo ammetto... ;-))&amp;nbsp;e al piu&amp;nbsp;presto il mio&amp;nbsp;amico&amp;nbsp;Bengio renderà disponibile una piccola guida dei blocchi e delle vie&amp;nbsp;perchè possiate&amp;nbsp;venire a scoprire questa parte di Toscana.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="253" mozallowfullscreen="" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/35979020?byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="450"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-5607139006618319314?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/5607139006618319314/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2012/01/winter-in-amiata-part-1.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/5607139006618319314'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/5607139006618319314'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2012/01/winter-in-amiata-part-1.html' title='Winter in Amiata - Part 1'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-JLcq4L4NptY/TwieJ2xcW1I/AAAAAAAAATM/IS1-iRcKD2M/s72-c/montegiovi-distant-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total><georss:featurename>58033 Castel del Piano GR, Italia</georss:featurename><georss:point>42.8911111 11.539536999999996</georss:point><georss:box>42.8388481 11.437461499999996 42.94337410000001 11.641612499999995</georss:box></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-4235366149813856052</id><published>2011-12-09T16:57:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-12-09T16:57:23.579+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Autumn on the rocks</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;After the end of competition's season it's time to get back on&amp;nbsp;rock&amp;nbsp;trying to enjoy and develop some less known areas in Italy such&amp;nbsp;as Val Daone&amp;nbsp;or Monte Amiata but even to make a quick trip to Fontainebleau and Belgium... let's see what happened.﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fX0fT4TAxCI/TuHvsbeRlLI/AAAAAAAAASI/ZTHkDZe3u80/s1600/camper-flash-sera.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fX0fT4TAxCI/TuHvsbeRlLI/AAAAAAAAASI/ZTHkDZe3u80/s600/camper-flash-sera.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;First focus has been in Val Daone, where I had a couple of nice projects to be climbed before annual closure of the road during winter period. The first and easier one was "&lt;b&gt;Big Bamboo﻿ sitstart&lt;/b&gt;", which consists of a hard and physical start to an old problem on this blank and slopey arete just next to "l'Avenir..." at Dos Dei Aser sector...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KxpKu_s7HaI/TuHs5_aNm7I/AAAAAAAAASA/zwxUSJ3eN9s/s1600/big_bamboo-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-KxpKu_s7HaI/TuHs5_aNm7I/AAAAAAAAASA/zwxUSJ3eN9s/s600/big_bamboo-4.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;The problem gave me more trouble than I first thought and it took me 4 days to complete it, so I didn't worry to give it 8a+ and wait for future repeaters' opinions. The other project consists of slightly overhanging granite shield, crossed by a tiny finger crack where I struggle to make my fat fingers go inside... I tried many and many times always falling on the last dynamic move to a slopey crimp, which I was able to hold just one or two times trying the single move. Nothing to do, the project is still there and I will have to wait spring for the road to open again... temperature are dropping a bit, time to move on to Fontainebleau!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8kbLSmQ4RvQ/TuHytDKEXoI/AAAAAAAAASQ/xSnApFpaJ0Q/s1600/vague-patatras-mik-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8kbLSmQ4RvQ/TuHytDKEXoI/AAAAAAAAASQ/xSnApFpaJ0Q/s600/vague-patatras-mik-4.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Unfortunately in Font weather was still quite warm but I had the pleasure to climb a few good lines I had never tried before (thing that is getting harder&amp;nbsp;as years pass), like &lt;b&gt;Vague Patatras&lt;/b&gt;, 7c+ at Saint Germain or&lt;b&gt; Art&amp;nbsp;and Nature&lt;/b&gt;, 7c+/8a at Cuvier Est, but I had to move to Belgium soon where I had the pleasure to take part in &lt;a href="http://planetgrimpe.com/photos/?page_id=972" target="_blank"&gt;Bleau Open Bouldering Sensations 2011&lt;/a&gt; (see the beautiful pictures of Stef D'hoore) a really fun competition at the bouldering gym "Bleau" of Ghent.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/StefDhoorePhotography" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="330" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-LbKrB5TpSzc/TuIbEq1p80I/AAAAAAAAASY/ypeOgSna-oI/s600/bleau-ghent-1.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.facebook.com/StefDhoorePhotography" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="330" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-dWETaqIQt9Q/TuIbLZRpk8I/AAAAAAAAASg/fqQ6QJkPZEo/s600/bleau-ghent-2.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;After 4 hours of qualifications on these round shaped boulders&amp;nbsp;I made my way to the finals where I still had to fight hard to take (as usual ahahha!) the second place after Mr. Glairon Mondet... pretty happy in the end&amp;nbsp;and really fun&amp;nbsp;climbing. Now destroyed&amp;nbsp;was time to relax, visit city center and drink&amp;nbsp;a good beer before going back to Fontainebleau.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YRU3KEizLMY/TuIhCVkei1I/AAAAAAAAASo/iivHe0DjqMY/s1600/klok-huys.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YRU3KEizLMY/TuIhCVkei1I/AAAAAAAAASo/iivHe0DjqMY/s600/klok-huys.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Back in the forest I was joined by my friend Kakko and we spent another week there. Weather has been quite good at first but soon became quite humid and foggy and had to give up the idea of completing "&lt;b&gt;The Big Island&lt;/b&gt;" where I dropped almost at the mantle last year... anyway I have been able to climb two stunning problems which has been in my dreams for a while: the first one is a powerful rounded arete called "&lt;b&gt;Bleu Sacré&lt;/b&gt;", a hard 8a+/8b opened in 2010 by Antoine Vandeputte, and the second one is the legendary "&lt;b&gt;Merveille&lt;/b&gt;", a high and technique 8a+ opened back in 1991 by mr. Le Ménestrel...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UgW2S95Qzt8/TuIlycVg2LI/AAAAAAAAASw/R3m8ix3CqyY/s1600/merveille-ned-28mm-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UgW2S95Qzt8/TuIlycVg2LI/AAAAAAAAASw/R3m8ix3CqyY/s600/merveille-ned-28mm-2.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;...old school vs new school, huge slopers vs sharp "grats". Luckily I got some good beta for last move from my friend Ned, and was able to send it second time I passed the crux in the middle... probably the best boulder I have ever climbed, nothing that any 8c out of a dump cave will ever give you... (and it's a pleasure to hear that Adam Ondra just went&amp;nbsp;flashed it! Too many beautiful boulders just&amp;nbsp;don't receive the&amp;nbsp;right attention because their grade is not "hardcore").&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pl8QmRnC4mE/TuIpyJ2FziI/AAAAAAAAAS4/wq8XGl0K1F4/s1600/mercato-formaggi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-Pl8QmRnC4mE/TuIpyJ2FziI/AAAAAAAAAS4/wq8XGl0K1F4/s600/mercato-formaggi.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Then shut down by the fog all we could do was hiking through wet boulders, picking up mushrooms, buying some local cheese at the market of Milly la Foret, going last time to our favourite pub "La Tete des Trains" in Tousson... good bye Fontainebleau. At the moment I'm writing from my small house in &amp;nbsp;Siena, exploring never stops and at Monte Amiata is full of new rocks to be climbed and new stories to be told... I'm just getting too much pictures and videos,&amp;nbsp; no time is left after climbing, but I will try to give a video update soon.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Greetings from Tuscany.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aeHe733OOyQ/TuIthkV1WPI/AAAAAAAAATA/UOGash0Zo7M/s1600/DSC01779-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aeHe733OOyQ/TuIthkV1WPI/AAAAAAAAATA/UOGash0Zo7M/s600/DSC01779-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-4235366149813856052?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/4235366149813856052/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/12/autumn-on-rocks.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4235366149813856052'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4235366149813856052'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/12/autumn-on-rocks.html' title='Autumn on the rocks'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-fX0fT4TAxCI/TuHvsbeRlLI/AAAAAAAAASI/ZTHkDZe3u80/s72-c/camper-flash-sera.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-3604851146580755830</id><published>2011-11-02T12:15:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-11-07T22:13:37.405+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Picture Galleries and PhotoStore</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Finalmente dopo tanto lavoro notturno tutto sembra funzionare... ho raccolto e catalogato un po' dei miei scatti preferiti raccolti negli anni, suddividendoli per temi, e ho anche creato qualche raccolta relativa ai miei viaggi di arrampicata in giro per il mondo. Il tutto da sfogliare e gustare a schermo intero. Se vi piaceranno, avrete la possibilità di acquistarli ad un prezzo simbolico sul &lt;a href="http://www.michelecaminati.com/photostore/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PhotoStore&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, per poterne stampare ingrandimenti, creare locandine per eventi o manifestazioni oppure semplicemente salvarli come sfondo del computer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.michelecaminati.com/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="334" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nLC861Z3elg/TrElDZOw-GI/AAAAAAAAARw/xbnEjDRGKds/s1600/galleria-shot.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Finally after late night working sessions everything seems to work... I gathered some of the my best pictures and arranged them by themes, I've also made&amp;nbsp; some collections about my climbing trips around the globe. Everything to be browsed and enjoyed in full screen. If you like them, you'll have the opportunity to buy them for a symbolic price on the &lt;a href="http://www.michelecaminati.com/photostore/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;PhotoStore&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;, to make prints, posters, or just use them as desktop wallpaper.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.michelecaminati.com/photostore/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="327" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-H8H5_9b6ldQ/TrhCN3o_M5I/AAAAAAAAAR4/jD4eviczL2U/s1600/photostore.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Intanto le gare proseguono con i soliti risultati: secondo in Coppa Italia Boulder 2011, secondo al campionato Italiano Boulder 2011, sembra che sia proprio affezionato a quel numero &lt;b&gt;2&lt;/b&gt;... in effetti la media aritmetica delle mie posizioni in gara negli ultimi 5 anni è qualcosa come &lt;span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:3}"&gt;‎2,66666666666667.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;span class="messageBody translationEligibleUserMessage" data-ft="{&amp;quot;type&amp;quot;:3}"&gt;In fondo posso anche ritenermi soddisfatto, dopo tanto tempo sarà giunta l'ora di darci un taglio e dedicarsi a tempo pieno alla roccia? Mi sa di si... quindi aspettatevi a breve un bel resoconto da Fontainebleau!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-3604851146580755830?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/3604851146580755830/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/11/photo-galleries.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/3604851146580755830'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/3604851146580755830'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/11/photo-galleries.html' title='Picture Galleries and PhotoStore'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-nLC861Z3elg/TrElDZOw-GI/AAAAAAAAARw/xbnEjDRGKds/s72-c/galleria-shot.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-4245010573263053546</id><published>2011-09-19T18:25:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-09-19T18:25:57.613+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rocklands'/><title type='text'>Rocklands 2011 - Part 2: Back Home</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/28498553?byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="450"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Back home... hard to get back to normal life when you've been climbing and staying into the wild with friends for 58 days, and even worse if you return from bone dry African winter and find yourself in the middle of a boiling September here in Italy!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nnunYVKrPkY/TnIKGrBKzxI/AAAAAAAAAQs/blU_KiMFimI/s1600/tramonto-luna-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nnunYVKrPkY/TnIKGrBKzxI/AAAAAAAAAQs/blU_KiMFimI/s600/tramonto-luna-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Time runs quickly when you are on a trip, and when I try to look back at our experience everything tends to mix together, giving quite a messy and cheerful sensation, made of people, sceneries and smells from a far and previously unknown country.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-293euE2KxTw/TnIKX3S0NpI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/p03h3OquP-U/s1600/30_new_20-mik-2-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-293euE2KxTw/TnIKX3S0NpI/AAAAAAAAAQ4/p03h3OquP-U/s600/30_new_20-mik-2-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Red, red was color of land and rock, green were bushes and plants and deep blue were the skies above us. Almost sunny every day, sometimes quite warm, but always dry with some little breeze. Shorts periods if rain here and there made you realize even more how good weather was and let your body have some rest from climbing and hiking, in order to restart fresh and focused&amp;nbsp; the day after.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HrVIjDiPJ_M/TnIKuNnUF2I/AAAAAAAAARE/mSngSIPApC0/s1600/fiori-arancio-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-HrVIjDiPJ_M/TnIKuNnUF2I/AAAAAAAAARE/mSngSIPApC0/s600/fiori-arancio-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Climbers came from all over the world and everywhere you went you could meet people sharing with you the enthusiasm of being exactly on the trip they always dreamt to be.&amp;nbsp; Moving around you could hear a strange language made of English, German, Afrikaans and yes, also a hint of Italian.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3CC55oYhiKo/TnIKRn8tdbI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/okMCcZKw0YE/s1600/armed-mik-2-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-3CC55oYhiKo/TnIKRn8tdbI/AAAAAAAAAQ0/okMCcZKw0YE/s600/armed-mik-2-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;We stayed well,&amp;nbsp; every day we woke up, we had a satisfying breakfast&amp;nbsp; and then we went out with our old cars to explore as much as we could of the area, trying to find out and repeat all the most beautiful problems among that endless amount of rock we had in front of our eyes. Evenings just came too quickly and many times we were obliged&amp;nbsp; to stop just to go in town to do shopping before closing time.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d1vZIVEhxKI/TnIPHfmymoI/AAAAAAAAARI/P7rG0Krfrvw/s1600/pioggia-arcobaleno-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-d1vZIVEhxKI/TnIPHfmymoI/AAAAAAAAARI/P7rG0Krfrvw/s600/pioggia-arcobaleno-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;The place itself is vast and amazing, with a hint of wilderness but at the same time really friendly and peaceful. I tried to record our best memories with pictures and videos and now I'll let them speak, hoping they'll give you inspiration for planning next trip.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FdWp-DloBkQ/TnIKjAPJToI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/X2LwZePMaHg/s1600/shosholoza-mik-2-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-FdWp-DloBkQ/TnIKjAPJToI/AAAAAAAAAQ8/X2LwZePMaHg/s600/shosholoza-mik-2-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;There is also something else I want to talk about. Rocklands is for sure one of the best climbing destinations I've ever been and for sure one of the most famous, but I have to say it also shows some limits. First of all when you get there you can really feel how poorly black people live comparing to white men. Even if they're usually smiling at you it is hard not to think you're just there for climbing and having fun, when you see such poverty around and you're frequently asked for food or money... of course you can't help everybody and you end up living your holiday, I just hope all this tourism will help to promote the development of the region under every aspects.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ukhIJzQWeBw/TnIPnOuV4cI/AAAAAAAAARM/ftPa6ikNhTE/s1600/green_mamba-pol-2-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ukhIJzQWeBw/TnIPnOuV4cI/AAAAAAAAARM/ftPa6ikNhTE/s600/green_mamba-pol-2-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Another strange fact is that despite all the amount of rock you can see around, just a small portion is actually good for climbing. Sometimes it is either holdless or too juggy, but most of the times it is just loose and bad rock. You may have to walk quite a lot between these before reaching a good sector, but the hike is always nice and when you finally get there you're always impressed by the quality of the climbing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ydlg7xtrCBQ/TnIPsG6524I/AAAAAAAAARQ/2vkAj1ShCz4/s1600/mooiste_meisie-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ydlg7xtrCBQ/TnIPsG6524I/AAAAAAAAARQ/2vkAj1ShCz4/s600/mooiste_meisie-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;The style is quite crimpy and it's full of overhangs with strange holds, so climbing tends to be quite basic and powerful, at the expense of balance and technique, but sometimes it also offers tall brilliant aretes and even a few slopey gems you can find here and there... be careful that this sandstone can be really hard and "glassy" and slopers may have a really bad friction! Anyway the variety of holds and shapes is fantastic and I found it second only to Fontainebleau under that aspect. (Yes &lt;a href="http://bleau.info/elephant/406-47170.html" target="_blank"&gt;"Le Coeur&lt;/a&gt;" is still unbeatable).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ofT1mIq_zxc/TnIPwiOR5TI/AAAAAAAAARU/U_IzVMgZgBk/s1600/cedar_spine-luna-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ofT1mIq_zxc/TnIPwiOR5TI/AAAAAAAAARU/U_IzVMgZgBk/s600/cedar_spine-luna-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Reading the guidebook I found that first sectors were developed starting from 1994 and since then many strong climbers came to search for projects in the climbing mecca, starting from Fred Nicole, Klem Loskot or Bernd Zangerl...  nowadays it seems that most of the beautiful lines gathered around the main climbing sectors have been already climbed, and if you want to find your own project, one that really stands out, you have to walk further and further... maybe even  50 minutes uphill like did Nalle for "Livin Large", but I can say it was definitely worth it! Much more possibilities are left for short routes, which can be found here and there on the faces of the tallest boulders, many of them would be perfect as hard and scary trad projects. We tried a couple of amazing lines but found them too hard or demanding in time to be worked and so we preferred just to keep on bouldering and explore all the sectors around for this first trip.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-snqgxyp7uYE/TnIP2IUFCLI/AAAAAAAAARY/yyVpJ4bzQko/s1600/pinotage-teschio-2-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-snqgxyp7uYE/TnIP2IUFCLI/AAAAAAAAARY/yyVpJ4bzQko/s600/pinotage-teschio-2-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;There was just a thing which I found quite odd about the climbing there and this were&amp;nbsp; &lt;b&gt;GRADES&lt;/b&gt;. This summer I wasn't sure in the best shape of my life but during this trip I would have climbed 34 problems above 7c according to the guidebook, of which eight 8a+'s an 8b and three 8b+'s... by far the best I did in my climbing career, especially comparing it to last winter in the Peak District where in two months I was just able to climb 11 problems above 7c including just two 8b's. Not to mention that many grades had already been revised in the guidebook! So what happened? Are the big stakes you could find in Clanwilliam especially good for climbing performances? Or it is just the whole system that has to be revised? Is it possible to have a common grading scale all over the world?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wJdDO8GvXGQ/TnIQpR3F9hI/AAAAAAAAARc/UCm45m-xCOk/s1600/piscina-mattino-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-wJdDO8GvXGQ/TnIQpR3F9hI/AAAAAAAAARc/UCm45m-xCOk/s600/piscina-mattino-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I'm not referring here to first ascentionists, as it is always hard, and maybe impossible to give a correct grade when you climb on your own and have to discover every single trick, but more to the climbing community itself which seems to be always happy to record the given grade, without bothering to think as much as they do when they climb in their home crags here in Europe for example, where grades seems to stabilize quite soon around a common "standard". The problem I think is that we want to succeed, and to do so we need to climb numbers. How any times have you heard: "I climbed an 8a+" and only after the name of what&amp;nbsp;have actually&amp;nbsp;been&amp;nbsp;climbed? Like if it was less important? Well to me is still a big difference to hear: "I climbed Nutsa in Rocklands" or "I climbed &lt;a href="http://bleau.info/merveille/296.html" target="_blank"&gt;la Merveille&lt;/a&gt; in Fontainebleu", after both names there's written 8a+ in guidebooks, but if I saw climbing Nutsa almost twice everyday I still have to climb or see anybody climbing that thing in Fontainebleau, and you can't tell me it is just because it's rubbish...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VKTD_27YVxs/TnIQuBBTdeI/AAAAAAAAARg/TvVLgfa0_-c/s1600/dolphin-marco-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-VKTD_27YVxs/TnIQuBBTdeI/AAAAAAAAARg/TvVLgfa0_-c/s600/dolphin-marco-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Anyway here is a list of what I climbed during the trip, with the official "guidebook grade" and the one I thought was appropriate. Again it is always hard to be rational... especially when you climb so many days in a row, but when you feel 7 grades out of 10 wrong there should be definitely something odd going on.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 450px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;   &lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 200pt;" width="267"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Tomorrow I will be   Gone&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td style="width: 48pt;" width="64"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td style="width: 48pt;" width="64"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7b+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Bacs pour Nini&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Kingdom in the Sky&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Cedar Spine&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Caroline&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Il etait une fois&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Black Mango Chutney&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Macho King&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Pinotage Sit&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7b+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The Shark&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+ soft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;White Mazda Clan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7b+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Stretched and Pressed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7b+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Stargate&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Barracuda&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Gliding Through the Waves like Dolphins&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Out of Balance&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Pendragon&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a soft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Royksoop&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a soft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Herbie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Double D Bras and Shiraz&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Witness the Sickness&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Solar Power&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Nutsa&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Green Mamba&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Shosholoza&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a soft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Black Shadow&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Barracuda sitstart&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a+ soft&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Armed Response&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;The Amphitheater&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;7c+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;30's the new 20&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Fragile Steps&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8a+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Mooiste Meisie&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8b+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Derailed&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8b+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8b hard&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;  &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;Madiba&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8b+&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;   &lt;/span&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;8b&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kaVphsvQbD4/TnIQx3wBOnI/AAAAAAAAARk/315GlUDRmpM/s1600/roccia-tramonto-silhouette-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-kaVphsvQbD4/TnIQx3wBOnI/AAAAAAAAARk/315GlUDRmpM/s600/roccia-tramonto-silhouette-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I'll leave you with this nice little video my friend Marco edited, which I think captures really well our &amp;nbsp;African experience, with its people, its landscapes and its climbing. This winter I hope to go back to Fontainebleau and Peak District, to keep on climbing truly inspiring lines as I could do here in Rocklands. My &lt;a href="http://www.8a.nu/Scorecard/Ranking.aspx?CountryCode=GLOBAL" target="_blank"&gt;8a.nu&lt;/a&gt; ranking will suffer a little bit but I'll try not to bother much. ;-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe allowfullscreen="" frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/29159950?byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600" webkitallowfullscreen="" width="450"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-4245010573263053546?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/4245010573263053546/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/09/rocklands-2011-part-2-back-home.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4245010573263053546'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4245010573263053546'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/09/rocklands-2011-part-2-back-home.html' title='Rocklands 2011 - Part 2: Back Home'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-nnunYVKrPkY/TnIKGrBKzxI/AAAAAAAAAQs/blU_KiMFimI/s72-c/tramonto-luna-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-4602086194512607387</id><published>2011-07-16T16:58:00.000+02:00</published><updated>2011-07-16T16:58:14.364+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='rocklands'/><title type='text'>Rocklands 2011 -  Part 1: Arrival</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zcgbJQDWeUg/Thtamyx6ayI/AAAAAAAAAQE/EhkiQ9nkGHk/s1600/IMG_7707.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zcgbJQDWeUg/Thtamyx6ayI/AAAAAAAAAQE/EhkiQ9nkGHk/s600/IMG_7707.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;It's done, we got here! After endless hours spent on airplanes playing tetris, watching movies and vainly trying to get some sleep, we finally landed in Cape Town.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hq_euRh7xI0/ThtbeAqJ10I/AAAAAAAAAQI/e01x1jcgPn4/s1600/albero-casa-fish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-hq_euRh7xI0/ThtbeAqJ10I/AAAAAAAAAQI/e01x1jcgPn4/s600/albero-casa-fish.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;The car rental man was already waiting for us with two quite old Toyota Tazz: 4 gears, no power steering, but enough space for five of us, baggage and pads... quite a good deal for 330€ per month!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GuzoRiKJv4k/ThtcBKN7UbI/AAAAAAAAAQM/C_P9Bwg-F_U/s1600/capre-fish.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-GuzoRiKJv4k/ThtcBKN7UbI/AAAAAAAAAQM/C_P9Bwg-F_U/s600/capre-fish.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;So after a quick research for a universal laptop charger (yes I did burn mine on the airplane's plug), we moved out of town heading north towards Clanwilliam and the rock we have been dreaming on.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NrBULeVGcqs/Thtcg_jn7KI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/djuuOtfUGQI/s1600/IMG_7552.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-NrBULeVGcqs/Thtcg_jn7KI/AAAAAAAAAQQ/djuuOtfUGQI/s600/IMG_7552.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Landscapes were at first quite green and familiar, but they got more brown and rocky as we approached our destination, leaving us astonished when we drove at sunset trough Pakhuis pass and what we could see was only endless fields of strange rocks brightened by the deep red sun light.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1_nPEA3rHYk/Thtc5U6_3oI/AAAAAAAAAQU/1UqGSJkV1oE/s600/IMG_7614.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1_nPEA3rHYk/Thtc5U6_3oI/AAAAAAAAAQU/1UqGSJkV1oE/s600/IMG_7614.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;We got to our house that was already dark, ate some badly made pasta in order not to starve and just died in our beds, hoping to recover for next day.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iw7d7GtPVF8/Thtdf6B_NsI/AAAAAAAAAQY/U3MvMVjM8Hs/s1600/IMG_7592.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-iw7d7GtPVF8/Thtdf6B_NsI/AAAAAAAAAQY/U3MvMVjM8Hs/s600/IMG_7592.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Next morning we were woken up as usual by some noisy sheep and barking dogs, but it was already 9am and we've been almost sleeping for 11 hours. Just time to have breakfast and take some pictures and we were already walking along the road towards Roadside sector, pads on our shoulders and smiles on our faces.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gGrI0Im8ln0/Thtd4_Wl3oI/AAAAAAAAAQc/kJ9FKqBt3jM/s1600/IMG_7701.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-gGrI0Im8ln0/Thtd4_Wl3oI/AAAAAAAAAQc/kJ9FKqBt3jM/s600/IMG_7701.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Yes, at first we did feel a bit shit, but it was a very nice place where to feel like that...&lt;br /&gt;The first two days weather has been quite chilly and perfect for climbing, but it soon got warm during the day. Not a big issue as it's still really dry and we just wanted to visit a few sectors and get familiar with the place.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c7-LBMc1um0/ThtedHSJdFI/AAAAAAAAAQg/FSZew99vHZg/s1600/tramonto-marco-rocce.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-c7-LBMc1um0/ThtedHSJdFI/AAAAAAAAAQg/FSZew99vHZg/s600/tramonto-marco-rocce.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;We've been climbing for 6 days now and visited most of the sectors at the Pass, 8 Days Rain and Dihedral Boulders, but there is still too much to see... I'm glad I've already climbed some great classic lines on this beautiful rock that stands in between Hueco and Fontainebleau and I'm getting to like every day more.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lUpWsZO8gaY/Thte2Ju8XEI/AAAAAAAAAQk/6jxdNVfYkHQ/s1600/tramonto-cammino.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lUpWsZO8gaY/Thte2Ju8XEI/AAAAAAAAAQk/6jxdNVfYkHQ/s600/tramonto-cammino.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;At the moment I will recommend "&lt;i&gt;Barracuda&lt;/i&gt;", "&lt;i&gt;Out of Balance&lt;/i&gt;", "&lt;i&gt;Green Mamba&lt;/i&gt;", "&lt;i&gt;Gliding through Waves like Dolphins&lt;/i&gt;" and "&lt;i&gt;Tomorrow I will be Gone&lt;/i&gt;".&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; If you also like to get a bit scared you can't miss the big black slab on the way to roadside sector, we made an easier route with few gear up the obvious crack and a slightly harder direct solo... one of the best rest days I've ever had.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ps0n1Y16AyU/TiGiDwMEzdI/AAAAAAAAAQo/EmQlImwT2Jk/s1600/IMG_8067-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="640" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ps0n1Y16AyU/TiGiDwMEzdI/AAAAAAAAAQo/EmQlImwT2Jk/s1600/IMG_8067-1.jpg" width="427" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Now I won't bother you with grades and speculations... just watch some pictures and try somehow to feel here in Rocklands if you can't stand Europe's summer heat! Stay tuned...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-4602086194512607387?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/4602086194512607387/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/07/rocklands-2011-part-1-arrival.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4602086194512607387'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4602086194512607387'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/07/rocklands-2011-part-1-arrival.html' title='Rocklands 2011 -  Part 1: Arrival'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-zcgbJQDWeUg/Thtamyx6ayI/AAAAAAAAAQE/EhkiQ9nkGHk/s72-c/IMG_7707.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-7947771520025385719</id><published>2011-05-18T18:09:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2011-05-22T21:17:31.319+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='peak district'/><title type='text'>An Italian on the Grit</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fV0JbfjCiAc/TdD07QGp0cI/AAAAAAAAAOo/EpQcud9E8NI/s1600/Balance_it_is.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Balance It Is - E7 6c" border="0" height="253" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fV0JbfjCiAc/TdD07QGp0cI/AAAAAAAAAOo/EpQcud9E8NI/s450/Balance_it_is.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;It's more than a month since I came back from Sheffield and I've been quite busy doing many things around here in Italy... now I feel is time to sum up the experience, remembering the most beautiful episodes and trying to explain what it meant and what changed in my mind.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FtFjwIT9oVk/TdD5LaLESvI/AAAAAAAAAOw/88a-L_fhQmU/s1600/brad-pit-lore.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Brad Pit - 7c" border="0" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-FtFjwIT9oVk/TdD5LaLESvI/AAAAAAAAAOw/88a-L_fhQmU/s450/brad-pit-lore.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;At the beginning of&amp;nbsp;february I&amp;nbsp;left from Paris, where&amp;nbsp;I've been visiting my friend Nicola. Weather was not so nice and I soon&amp;nbsp;realized&amp;nbsp;I was&amp;nbsp;quite bored to try hard on the same boulders. I've been doing this for ages:&amp;nbsp;keep on trying almost on my own&amp;nbsp;some boulder problems I liked, in a place I knew well&amp;nbsp;and felt like&amp;nbsp;a second home. So I was happy to be with friends, but I ended up to be stuck on the same climbing. I&amp;nbsp;needed to experience something different, something that could give me new psyche and help me become a better climber.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g3dncijCSI4/TdD8AVvMuEI/AAAAAAAAAO0/zQfGVBao7EQ/s1600/ulysses-wide-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Ulysse's Bow - E6 6b" border="0" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-g3dncijCSI4/TdD8AVvMuEI/AAAAAAAAAO0/zQfGVBao7EQ/s450/ulysses-wide-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Time was for&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://totolore.blogspot.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Lorenzo&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;to&amp;nbsp;team up&amp;nbsp;and leave together for a new adventure. Nothing was really&amp;nbsp;planned&amp;nbsp;but we were heading to Sheffield :&amp;nbsp;I really wanted to climb on gritstone and Lorenzo was quite psyched about anything from Brad Pit to the&amp;nbsp;old school problems&amp;nbsp;of Parisella's Cave or Raven Tor. We were ready to enjoy english weather as well as english beer, and&amp;nbsp;in case it&amp;nbsp;rained too much&amp;nbsp;we&amp;nbsp;would have gone campusing like beasts&amp;nbsp;at the climbing wall. I knew there wouldn't be any 8c to try, but I&amp;nbsp;was sure I could&amp;nbsp;find&amp;nbsp;loads of amazing lines&amp;nbsp;that would kick my ass and make me try at 100%.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lMZ9TPsD7Rk/TdD80_2I4YI/AAAAAAAAAO4/3_U9R33m5HA/s1600/pecora-crisp.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-lMZ9TPsD7Rk/TdD80_2I4YI/AAAAAAAAAO4/3_U9R33m5HA/s450/pecora-crisp.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;During the first days we were kindly hosted by Rich and his wife. Weather was&amp;nbsp;constantly changing and&amp;nbsp;we managed to have some lovely days at Stanage&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;as well as many sessions at the &lt;a href="http://www.climbingworks.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Climbing Works&lt;/a&gt;, which was just down the road... At the beginning my skin was quite soft to try anything hard on gritstone, so I soon focused on some easier&amp;nbsp;routes:&amp;nbsp;I&amp;nbsp;found myself quite scared in the middle of&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wikitopo.com/cragRouteList.php?routeId=406" target="_blank"&gt;Archangel&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (E3 5b) on my very first day,&amp;nbsp;and kept on for glory to the top of &lt;em&gt;Satin&lt;/em&gt; and &lt;em&gt;Pressure Drop&lt;/em&gt; even if my legs were shaking... everybody was&amp;nbsp;climbing so&amp;nbsp;naturally&amp;nbsp;at these heights I just told myself&amp;nbsp;I had to learn. The best way was to switch my&amp;nbsp;brain off and think about climbing:&amp;nbsp;trying to feel&amp;nbsp;my body under control, in order to be&amp;nbsp;safe and easy on every move.&amp;nbsp;But sometimes&amp;nbsp;I just couldn't feel safe at all,&amp;nbsp;like on my first tries on&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.wikitopo.com/cragRouteList.php?routeId=408" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;em&gt;Ulysse's&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;where I had to jump off several times before my sore&amp;nbsp;ankles&amp;nbsp;warned me to stop ... I wasn't ready yet !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aidVRNqbz1E/TdD9b56TfuI/AAAAAAAAAPA/GNWz5oggGJ0/s1600/gaia-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Gaia - E8 6c" border="0" height="330" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-aidVRNqbz1E/TdD9b56TfuI/AAAAAAAAAPA/GNWz5oggGJ0/s400/gaia-4.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VCiwlma19AU/TdD9Utd9cgI/AAAAAAAAAO8/mVE25wI1GFE/s1600/8ball-mik-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="8 Ball - 8b" border="0" height="330" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-VCiwlma19AU/TdD9Utd9cgI/AAAAAAAAAO8/mVE25wI1GFE/s400/8ball-mik-5.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;After getting scared is always nice to come back to bouldering, and there was quite a lot I had to do. I started to repeat some nice classics like &lt;em&gt;Help the Young&lt;/em&gt; sitstart (7c+), &lt;em&gt;West Side Story&lt;/em&gt; (7b+)&amp;nbsp;and &lt;em&gt;Western Eyes &lt;/em&gt;(7c+), and even a couple of nice highballs at Froggatt edge&amp;nbsp;like &lt;em&gt;Sole Power&lt;/em&gt; (7b+) and &lt;em&gt;My Orange&lt;/em&gt; (7c+) which helped me to raise a little bit my "fear height". Bouldering on gritstone can be quite frustrating as rock is usually really sharp and needs cold and dry conditions in order to stick all little quarz grains under your skin. Sometimes weather is ace and you can just levitate crimping everything,&amp;nbsp;even the worst &lt;em&gt;Font&lt;/em&gt; sloper, but most of the time&amp;nbsp;is just avarage and you end up killing your skin&amp;nbsp;on a cheese grater without getting anywhere... I really&amp;nbsp;had to learn when&amp;nbsp;to rest and how&amp;nbsp;to preserve skin, but that was probably the most difficult thing to do!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ORvhaPhFhUA/TdD_drhJDuI/AAAAAAAAAPE/TSShjtF-vuA/s1600/angel%2527s-foggy-mik-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Angel's Share - E8 7a" border="0" height="253" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-ORvhaPhFhUA/TdD_drhJDuI/AAAAAAAAAPE/TSShjtF-vuA/s450/angel%2527s-foggy-mik-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Meanwhile Lorenzo went for a trip to Wales and I moved to the house of the "guys". These were Dave, Dan, Ben, Ned and&amp;nbsp;Rich,&amp;nbsp;with Nick always showing up as a special guest. I won't mention surnames but I&amp;nbsp;don't think to exagerate saying that is probably the strongest "climbing house" in Britain, and I was really&amp;nbsp;proud to be&amp;nbsp;part of it&amp;nbsp;sleeping on the floor&amp;nbsp;of what was the music room. The lovely dirty house had everything a climber would need: from a training cellar&amp;nbsp;full of&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.beastmaker.co.uk/" target="_blank"&gt;Beastmaker&lt;/a&gt; boards to a huge&amp;nbsp;selection of climbing videos, but most important of all it was full of nice people who would share with&amp;nbsp;you their time, being it climbing or not.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JTHf8v80_lY/TdLwktCceEI/AAAAAAAAAPY/vfWDsRyj4H4/s1600/casa-sheffield.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-JTHf8v80_lY/TdLwktCceEI/AAAAAAAAAPY/vfWDsRyj4H4/s450/casa-sheffield.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;There were a few hard&amp;nbsp;lines which most of all captured my attention. These were&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.freakclimbing.com/modules.php?name=News&amp;amp;file=article&amp;amp;sid=997" target="_blank"&gt;The Ace&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;/em&gt;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-feEDN_e8Q" target="_blank"&gt;Careless Torque&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wikitopo.com/cragRouteList.php?routeId=1246" target="_blank"&gt;Unfamiliar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/2552400" target="_blank"&gt;8 Ball&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqOMWHOIqf0" target="_blank"&gt;Angel's Share&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/em&gt;and&lt;em&gt; &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kK7DfNZLK9E" target="_blank"&gt;Gaia&lt;/a&gt;.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/em&gt;Each one&amp;nbsp;was&amp;nbsp;a kind of dream (apart from&amp;nbsp;8 Ball&amp;nbsp;which I got stuck into...)&amp;nbsp;, expecially Gaia and Unfamiliar were pure unknown terrain as I seldom ever wore a harness in my life and I had no idea of how to approach them.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G3fwIuBheP8/TdEAR9Bg_3I/AAAAAAAAAPI/HZGMdWK52bg/s1600/roaches-house.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="the Roaches" border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-G3fwIuBheP8/TdEAR9Bg_3I/AAAAAAAAAPI/HZGMdWK52bg/s450/roaches-house.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Every day I went out (pretty much every day it didn't rain) I headed up to one of these boulders and fought hard to find a good beta... sometimes&amp;nbsp;it happened to have a revelation but most of the time&amp;nbsp;I just&amp;nbsp;made no progress so&amp;nbsp;I finished&amp;nbsp;myself soloing or highballing something easier with friends. Watching them in action was really inspiring, many times I thought : &lt;em&gt;"Are you mad? No way I'm going up there...",&lt;/em&gt; but then after some hesitation I found myself struggling my way up... if it doesn't kill you it will make you stronger ;-)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ODrUlgon8hk/TdEB42vnS0I/AAAAAAAAAPM/s1p51CuAenE/s1600/careless-ned-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 3px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Careless Torque - 8a" border="0" height="222" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ODrUlgon8hk/TdEB42vnS0I/AAAAAAAAAPM/s1p51CuAenE/s400/careless-ned-3.jpg" width="148" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xgaNlFCjmOI/TdECBtEGerI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/mUWM-Q7mwHs/s1600/ulysse%2527s-dave-wide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 3px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Ulysse's Bow - E6 6b" border="0" height="222" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-xgaNlFCjmOI/TdECBtEGerI/AAAAAAAAAPQ/mUWM-Q7mwHs/s400/ulysse%2527s-dave-wide.jpg" width="148" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XTt-aix5QME/TdECI_t5FYI/AAAAAAAAAPU/H6nqFfVAVV8/s1600/ulysse%2527s-dave-fall.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Ulysse's Bow - E6 6b" border="0" height="222" j8="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-XTt-aix5QME/TdECI_t5FYI/AAAAAAAAAPU/H6nqFfVAVV8/s400/ulysse%2527s-dave-fall.jpg" width="148" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Then there was the &lt;a href="http://www.thecwif.co.uk/" target="_blank"&gt;CWIF&lt;/a&gt;, the international climbing competition held every year at the Climbing Works, it wasn't really a priority to me but I knew it was great fun and I tried to do my best, despite my skin was trashed by a week pulling on wet gritstone. I joined Beastmaker team and led by captain Ned Feehally we managed to get a pretty good overall&amp;nbsp;second place just after the&amp;nbsp;Climbing Works hired&amp;nbsp;"dream team" of Hukkataival, Becan, Landman and&amp;nbsp;Sandoz ! I also made my way to the semi&amp;nbsp;finals but the next morning I climbed pretty badly and found myself quite dipappointed in 10th position. It was just&amp;nbsp;2pm in the afternoon and outside a nice sun was shining: &lt;em&gt;"I won't&amp;nbsp;get to the finals today, but I will climb Ulysse's Bow"&lt;/em&gt;. I was angry enough. With a team of unfulfilled climbers like me&amp;nbsp;I sat off to Stanage to complete my task, then we got back just in time to&amp;nbsp;have a pint and watch the finals.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XYu4eoMjqow/TdORmtqWshI/AAAAAAAAAPc/u2qTKCZQ2OQ/s1600/Burbage_HDR.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Burbage South" border="0" height="322" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-XYu4eoMjqow/TdORmtqWshI/AAAAAAAAAPc/u2qTKCZQ2OQ/s450/Burbage_HDR.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;I was starting slowly to complete my projects: I&amp;nbsp;fired &lt;em&gt;The Ace&lt;/em&gt; (8b) on my first try&amp;nbsp;of a cloudy and cool&amp;nbsp;morning after I figured out how to do it with a hill (as there is &lt;u&gt;always&lt;/u&gt; saving&amp;nbsp;a heelhook). I&amp;nbsp;managed to get almost frozen&amp;nbsp;to the top of &lt;em&gt;Unfamiliar&lt;/em&gt; (E8 6c) after&amp;nbsp;fighting&amp;nbsp;10 minutes to place cams&amp;nbsp;on a freezing windy day (luckily my friends were&amp;nbsp;spotting and encouraging), and somehow&amp;nbsp;walked on top of &lt;em&gt;Angel's Share&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(E8 7a or font 7c) after 4 days of sliding and falling&amp;nbsp;off it's&amp;nbsp;slabby green surface. (almost ruined 2 pair of shoes there!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TF9Qiu0vNf4/TdOTUyD6TzI/AAAAAAAAAPg/JteJlfgPhrU/s1600/angel%2527s-mik-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Angel's Share - E8 7a" border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-TF9Qiu0vNf4/TdOTUyD6TzI/AAAAAAAAAPg/JteJlfgPhrU/s450/angel%2527s-mik-3.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;At that point spring was coming and weather started to become quite warm. I was still shut down by &lt;em&gt;Careless Torque,&lt;/em&gt; was close to&amp;nbsp;complete&lt;em&gt; 8 Ball,&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;still had the dream to try &lt;em&gt;Gaia&lt;/em&gt;. As it was too warm to go bouldering I tried as many routes I could, not just to prepare for Gaia but&amp;nbsp;because I&amp;nbsp;really loved being out to enjoy&amp;nbsp;climbing and rock in a complete new way. In fact I tried to flash &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJluNO8CmOM" target="_blank"&gt;The Knock&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (E4 6a),&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.wikitopo.com/cragRouteList.php?routeId=3328" target="_blank"&gt;Nosferatu&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&amp;nbsp;(E6 6b) and &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NKOGlLbcegg" target="_blank"&gt;Balance It Is&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/em&gt; (E7 6c), but the last&amp;nbsp;gave me some thrill&amp;nbsp;when&amp;nbsp;I took a&amp;nbsp;huge fall ripping a small wire out of the rock desperately trying&amp;nbsp;to jump to the top.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YjugytCscLo/TdOTwrkORpI/AAAAAAAAAPk/LHZAlduC2bU/s1600/renegade-mik-09.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Renegade Master - E8 6c" border="0" height="300" j8="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-YjugytCscLo/TdOTwrkORpI/AAAAAAAAAPk/LHZAlduC2bU/s450/renegade-mik-09.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;﻿&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Fortunately last week turned out to be quite windy and I&amp;nbsp;didn't&amp;nbsp;miss&amp;nbsp;the chance to climb&amp;nbsp;&lt;em&gt;8 Ball&lt;/em&gt; (8b),&amp;nbsp;being literally blown up by the wind!&amp;nbsp;Then it came time to try the big one: the thing that made me dream about climbing for&amp;nbsp;many years&amp;nbsp;and now I felt finally ready to try. We set off to Black Rocks on a pretty&amp;nbsp;warm&amp;nbsp;sunny day (almost 20°!), a&amp;nbsp;nice breeze was blowing and it was just perfect to keep&amp;nbsp;me cool without&amp;nbsp;being annoying (I hate to be up a scary route with&amp;nbsp;strong freezing wind!). After some practice on a top rope I found an easy way to do the crux move at the bottom (which&amp;nbsp;at first seemed quite hard&amp;nbsp;sweating in the sun),&amp;nbsp;and&amp;nbsp;I soon&amp;nbsp;felt ready to try, as&amp;nbsp;I could&amp;nbsp;easily walk up the upper section. So I did: I left the ground and&amp;nbsp;thought only about the moves till I found myself&amp;nbsp;looking down with a big&amp;nbsp;smile; my feet safely laying on the final sloper.&amp;nbsp;It was a great feeling,&amp;nbsp;not as challenging as trying something &lt;em&gt;ground-up &lt;/em&gt;but I finally brought up there&amp;nbsp;the 14 years old boy who first saw "&lt;em&gt;Hard Grit&lt;/em&gt;" on a dusty&amp;nbsp;VHS in the climbing gym of Parma.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="286" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/VVG9RcY5Eog?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;amp;rel=0"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/VVG9RcY5Eog?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01&amp;amp;rel=0" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="286" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Time was running out and when you start to feel home you always have to come back to your real one. &lt;em&gt;Careless Torque&lt;/em&gt; was still laughing at me and the list of things I wanted to&amp;nbsp;try was growing every day bigger and bigger. I had the chance to climb &lt;em&gt;Renegade Master&lt;/em&gt; (E8 6c or 7c+ boulder) with visiting&amp;nbsp;John Partridge, and to see Dan's efforts on what later&amp;nbsp;became &lt;em&gt;&lt;a href="http://vimeo.com/23044295" target="_blank"&gt;Dandelion Mind&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;/em&gt; but my&amp;nbsp;time was really&amp;nbsp;over. I crossed the channel back on the 8th of April&amp;nbsp;together with Dan, psyched to show him my&amp;nbsp;projects and willing&amp;nbsp;to bring back to Italy that feeling of "life" I found in England, in its climbers and in&amp;nbsp;its climbing.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;See you next year Sheffield!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9LJ6JXQ_5t0/TdOUXkgTaoI/AAAAAAAAAPo/ND7WMC5bYVA/s1600/lowrider-walk-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="225" j8="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-9LJ6JXQ_5t0/TdOUXkgTaoI/AAAAAAAAAPo/ND7WMC5bYVA/s450/lowrider-walk-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-7947771520025385719?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/7947771520025385719/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/05/italian-on-grit.html#comment-form' title='6 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/7947771520025385719'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/7947771520025385719'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/05/italian-on-grit.html' title='An Italian on the Grit'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-fV0JbfjCiAc/TdD07QGp0cI/AAAAAAAAAOo/EpQcud9E8NI/s72-c/Balance_it_is.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>6</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-4967154287391457583</id><published>2011-03-26T23:21:00.005+01:00</published><updated>2011-03-29T22:27:50.188+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='peak district'/><title type='text'>Live from Sheffield</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;During last two months I haven't been posting much... not that there's been nothing interesting to tell but I ended up every single day being too tired and excited to collect any smart thought to share... so it is tonight and don't expect anything... I just want to let you know I've been living here in Sheffield hosted in a lovely house by some lovely guys. (judge it from here...)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/20581607?portrait=0&amp;amp;color=FF6600" width="450"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;I'll try to sum everything up when I get home, I've still a week left here in the Peak and I will enjoy it at best, trying to learn as much as I can from this wonderful and "hard" place. Now I'll let pictures speak and I'll head down to the pub to have a pint and read Ron Fawcett's book before going to sleep... hopefully tomorrow it won't rain and I'll be out on rock again.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="left"&gt;Michele.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_dgflKwVgf0/TY5fJvgOVPI/AAAAAAAAAOA/COidnuKGM50/s1600/ulysses-wide.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" alt="Ulysses' Bow - E6 6b" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_dgflKwVgf0/TY5fJvgOVPI/AAAAAAAAAOA/COidnuKGM50/s600/ulysses-wide.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-X2FoOjyJPKk/TY5fjv_HnDI/AAAAAAAAAOI/T0afhkDPgi0/s1600/ulysses-bn.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Ulysses' Bow - E6 6b" height="330" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-X2FoOjyJPKk/TY5fjv_HnDI/AAAAAAAAAOI/T0afhkDPgi0/s450/ulysses-bn.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-j2F4RD1bM-4/TY5fYd5crGI/AAAAAAAAAOE/FitSnrwBMxo/s1600/Ulysses.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Ulysses' Bow - E6 6b" height="330" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-j2F4RD1bM-4/TY5fYd5crGI/AAAAAAAAAOE/FitSnrwBMxo/s450/Ulysses.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m2qKFeWS0pM/TY5hfvRO4LI/AAAAAAAAAOM/ylyuU7DvV4c/s1600/the-ace.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="The Ace - f8b" height="252" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-m2qKFeWS0pM/TY5hfvRO4LI/AAAAAAAAAOM/ylyuU7DvV4c/s450/the-ace.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u4J2siMYPvc/TY5iPc8XYNI/AAAAAAAAAOU/yuSgXwTBOLM/s1600/help_the_young.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 10px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Help the Young - f7c+" height="330" src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-u4J2siMYPvc/TY5iPc8XYNI/AAAAAAAAAOU/yuSgXwTBOLM/s450/help_the_young.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Mm021ERQpTI/TY5iGo2JgFI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/DjNfIZKZ5qY/s1600/slipstones.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Slipstones" height="330" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-Mm021ERQpTI/TY5iGo2JgFI/AAAAAAAAAOQ/DjNfIZKZ5qY/s450/slipstones.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yEgYe2C4PgE/TY5i3LeFh8I/AAAAAAAAAOY/FZaj1ghU2wM/s1600/angels.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Angel's Share - E8 7a (f7c)" height="300" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-yEgYe2C4PgE/TY5i3LeFh8I/AAAAAAAAAOY/FZaj1ghU2wM/s600/angels.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="https://lh5.googleusercontent.com/-6CYW-HpfwiU/TY5kM2MzGII/AAAAAAAAAOc/I1tVo0EOExs/s1600/dan-chitarra-close-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" alt="Rock it up with Beastmaker!" height="300" 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height="300" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-NHgUe9wYzAo/TY5k8xtMN1I/AAAAAAAAAOk/pebYtPtjvlQ/s600/tramonto-burbage-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object height="283" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/NKOGlLbcegg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/NKOGlLbcegg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="283"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' 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Sheffield'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-_dgflKwVgf0/TY5fJvgOVPI/AAAAAAAAAOA/COidnuKGM50/s72-c/ulysses-wide.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-7826206347459920678</id><published>2011-02-02T19:33:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2011-02-02T19:33:10.627+01:00</updated><title type='text'>La Sportiva video intervista</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Mentre sono in partenza&amp;nbsp;per il Peak District è uscita una simpatica&amp;nbsp;e seria video intervista con Pietro dal Pra che abbiamo girato in occasione del "La Sportiva Athletes' day"... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Spero che la meteo sia buona e di poter raccogliere tanto bel materiale "british" da mostrarvi, intanto potete guardare questa e le altre interviste realizzate su &lt;a href="http://www.youtube.com/lasportivatube" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;La Sportiva Tube&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Alla prossima!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="362" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yn-9n1meaDg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Yn-9n1meaDg?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01" 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href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/02/la-sportiva-video-intervista.html' title='La Sportiva video intervista'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-5068996073679708893</id><published>2011-01-19T17:03:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2011-01-19T22:02:56.602+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pietra del toro'/><title type='text'>Capodanno a Campomaggiore</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;26 Dicembre 2010, la banda si riunisce ancora, è finito il tempo di dolci, pranzi, parenti e panettoni... qui si fa sul serio, dicono si tratti si arenaria.... arenaria del SuD!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcEHO7n8cI/AAAAAAAAANU/orwfcIH9Zbs/s1600/furgone-cappello-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcEHO7n8cI/AAAAAAAAANU/orwfcIH9Zbs/s1600/furgone-cappello-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;﻿Così via, in sella al potente furgone noleggiato all'oratorio di Valdagno scendiamo lungo le strade dell' italico stivale lasciandoci dietro le fitte nebbie padane, fino a ritrovare, giunti in quel di Foggia, qualche sprazzo di cielo azzurro e persino uno scorcio di quella cosa chiamata "sole" che ormai ora entrata nell' oblio dei nostri ricordi come le poesie imparate alle elementari...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcEecJ-1xI/AAAAAAAAANY/P_nBmgOlUSc/s1600/occhiodibue-1-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Occhio di Bue" border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcEecJ-1xI/AAAAAAAAANY/P_nBmgOlUSc/s1600/occhiodibue-1-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Arenaria lucana dicevamo, e di quella con le palle, trattandosi proprio di "Pietra del Toro", magnifico gioiello boulderistico scoperto e valorizzato dagli instancabili ragazzi di Bari, che dopo il recente raduno è pronto ad ospitare nordici visitatori in invernale astinenza da roccia asciutta e gripposa, offrendo ancora nuove sfide ed enigmatici problemi da risolvere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcEw7DCg1I/AAAAAAAAANc/9wN4a-iKWU4/s1600/strada-guglie-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcEw7DCg1I/AAAAAAAAANc/9wN4a-iKWU4/s1600/strada-guglie-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In paese l' accoglienza di Giacomo è calorosa, ottimo è il suo vino e leggendari i cavatelli con ricotta e peperoni secchi, che assieme a pizzette del forno e chili di pane cotto a legna inondato di grassa nutella ci donano forza e sostentamento per affrontare le lunghe giornate nel bosco passate a scalare, pulire e spazzolare...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTdP4R5hl2I/AAAAAAAAAN4/j7TjBtgHVUI/s1600/casa-jacopo-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTdP4R5hl2I/AAAAAAAAAN4/j7TjBtgHVUI/s320/casa-jacopo-1.jpg" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTdPhyjYuTI/AAAAAAAAAN0/uVhBebtBcJc/s1600/pietrapertosa-paese-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTdPhyjYuTI/AAAAAAAAAN0/uVhBebtBcJc/s320/pietrapertosa-paese-1.jpg" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTdOTjMm_EI/AAAAAAAAANw/cxMV81AGmyM/s1600/rami-guglie-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTdOTjMm_EI/AAAAAAAAANw/cxMV81AGmyM/s320/rami-guglie-1.jpg" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcE-TX6mEI/AAAAAAAAANg/gRNKQ7scY0k/s1600/paese-guglie-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="150" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcE-TX6mEI/AAAAAAAAANg/gRNKQ7scY0k/s320/paese-guglie-1.jpg" width="225" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;I giorni trascorrono senza tempo: mucche, blocchi e pale eoliche; giochi di carte ad elevato contenuto intellettuale in sottofondo di psichedelica musica giapponese ed estenuanti duelli con una dannatissima placca appoggiata... ci fu persino chi si mangiò masticando con gusto un intero peperoncino piccante estratto con fatica e soddisfazione da una stretta bottiglia di grappa... ma questa forse è un' altra storia.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcFcZbfs7I/AAAAAAAAANo/eI9wtWJMccQ/s1600/Empire-fish-3-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Empire State Boulder" border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcFcZbfs7I/AAAAAAAAANo/eI9wtWJMccQ/s1600/Empire-fish-3-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Intanto quello che resta sono le nuove linee: &lt;strong&gt;Occhio di Bue&lt;/strong&gt;, &lt;strong&gt;La Chiave del Sole&lt;/strong&gt;, l' imponente &lt;strong&gt;Empire State Boulder&lt;/strong&gt; e l' ormai mitico "Volo del Faggiano"... sui gradi non sono sicuro ma alcune sono state proprio una vera sfida, resa ancora piu interessante dalla loro "enigmatica" bellezza.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcGW4Eh9BI/AAAAAAAAANs/MN1Z0Ufje9k/s1600/CHIAVE%257E1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="la Chiave del Sole" border="0" height="253" n4="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcGW4Eh9BI/AAAAAAAAANs/MN1Z0Ufje9k/s1600/CHIAVE%257E1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Capodanno a Campomaggiore, così fu. Voi potete provare a coglierne l'essenza in questo video racconto, o ancora meglio andare a vedere, toccare e gustare con mano... per tutte le informazioni &lt;a href="http://www.pietradeltoro.it/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;strong&gt;www.pietradeltoro.it&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="278" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/loVY5szf6sQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/loVY5szf6sQ?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="278"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-5068996073679708893?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/5068996073679708893/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/01/capodanno-campomaggiore.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/5068996073679708893'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/5068996073679708893'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2011/01/capodanno-campomaggiore.html' title='Capodanno a Campomaggiore'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TTcEHO7n8cI/AAAAAAAAANU/orwfcIH9Zbs/s72-c/furgone-cappello-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-4523795492814815110</id><published>2010-12-13T18:52:00.002+01:00</published><updated>2010-12-13T18:57:20.512+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='cresciano'/><title type='text'>The Dagger</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TQX9_L2jfzI/AAAAAAAAAMM/IM6DjP0UfIs/s1600/dagger-front-3-1-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TQX9_L2jfzI/AAAAAAAAAMM/IM6DjP0UfIs/s600/dagger-front-3-1-4.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Saturday in Cresciano has been a really good day. It was finally warm and sunny and compared to last week when I was dressed like&amp;nbsp;"Santa Claus", it was a real pleasure to climb in t-shirt and take&amp;nbsp;your time to rest without freezing. I knew it was the perfect day to get back on &lt;b&gt;the Dagger&lt;/b&gt;. Last&amp;nbsp;session&amp;nbsp;I fell&amp;nbsp;many times&amp;nbsp;hanging upside-down&amp;nbsp;just because I couldn't feel anything under my frozen&amp;nbsp;hands...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TQZQ9o_t61I/AAAAAAAAAMU/kbmYle--P4w/s1600/dagger-studio-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-right: 10px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="330" n4="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TQZQ9o_t61I/AAAAAAAAAMU/kbmYle--P4w/s400/dagger-studio-1.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TQZRNPCg0lI/AAAAAAAAAMY/AvgvsoEBWPQ/s1600/dagger-wide-1-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="330" n4="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TQZRNPCg0lI/AAAAAAAAAMY/AvgvsoEBWPQ/s400/dagger-wide-1-1.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Luckily my friend Haroun got back from Belgium and was also there to film the ascent, so you will be able to see&amp;nbsp;the crazy but really effective&amp;nbsp;beta&amp;nbsp;I have found in&amp;nbsp;his upcoming&amp;nbsp;movie &lt;a href="http://betterthanchocolatemovie.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Better Than Chocolate&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;. If the goal was to reach last good crimp on the other side... well I just preferred to skip it completely! This is a quite strange and complex roof climb, not the kind of thing I like most, but still an obvious challenge to complete... personally I find Dreamtime now way harder, and it will be the next target for cold winter days in Cresciano.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TQX-Ozon3YI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/FrqFHqe6I1U/s1600/dagger-fisheye-1-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" n4="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TQX-Ozon3YI/AAAAAAAAAMQ/FrqFHqe6I1U/s600/dagger-fisheye-1-2.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-4523795492814815110?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/4523795492814815110/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/12/dagger.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4523795492814815110'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4523795492814815110'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/12/dagger.html' title='The Dagger'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TQX9_L2jfzI/AAAAAAAAAMM/IM6DjP0UfIs/s72-c/dagger-front-3-1-4.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-5101220832573139829</id><published>2010-11-27T22:21:00.001+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-27T22:23:28.761+01:00</updated><title type='text'>Better Than Chocolate</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TPFt_Ywc14I/AAAAAAAAAMI/hSciWr8_obg/s1600/betterthanchocolate.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ox="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TPFt_Ywc14I/AAAAAAAAAMI/hSciWr8_obg/s600/betterthanchocolate.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;During last weeks I've been in Switzerland,&amp;nbsp;kindly hosted&amp;nbsp;by Haroun,&amp;nbsp;for the making of his movie "&lt;strong&gt;Better Than Chocolate&lt;/strong&gt;". I had the opportunity to make new friends, climb together, and learn something about filming too.&amp;nbsp;Weather has not always been good but the atmosphere in the house really&amp;nbsp;was, as the &lt;em&gt;belgians&lt;/em&gt; that Haroun brought us... ehhehe.&amp;nbsp;So thanks again&amp;nbsp;to everybody was there, if you want to follow the updates of the movie you&amp;nbsp;will find all on the official&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;&lt;a href="http://betterthanchocolatemovie.tumblr.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Blog&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;, for now you can watch just a quick preview here:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/16136656?byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600" width="450"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-5101220832573139829?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/5101220832573139829/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/11/better-than-chocolate.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/5101220832573139829'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/5101220832573139829'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/11/better-than-chocolate.html' title='Better Than Chocolate'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TPFt_Ywc14I/AAAAAAAAAMI/hSciWr8_obg/s72-c/betterthanchocolate.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-7348124438382264616</id><published>2010-11-09T17:08:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-09T17:08:41.631+01:00</updated><title type='text'>New Toys</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNkcgk_f8jI/AAAAAAAAALw/iZG-mWSqADE/s1600/lenti.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="253" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNkcgk_f8jI/AAAAAAAAALw/iZG-mWSqADE/s600/lenti.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Ecco i nuovi giocattolini rigorosamente manual focus che ho recentemente acquistato per dare un po' di prospettive nuove alle mie foto e riprese video.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNkeAJ7eKZI/AAAAAAAAAL4/HWJJw5h5E4U/s1600/NEVERE~1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="242" px="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNkeAJ7eKZI/AAAAAAAAAL4/HWJJw5h5E4U/s600/NEVERE~1.jpg" width="430" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNkeGqkJraI/AAAAAAAAAL8/fAFljq9C3OQ/s1600/mucca.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="242" px="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNkeGqkJraI/AAAAAAAAAL8/fAFljq9C3OQ/s600/mucca.jpg" width="430" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNkeRlDUk2I/AAAAAAAAAMA/J9NnBKIGliE/s1600/leo.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-bottom: 10px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="242" px="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNkeRlDUk2I/AAAAAAAAAMA/J9NnBKIGliE/s600/leo.jpg" width="430" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNkeaPSaioI/AAAAAAAAAME/zbs3k_72gqw/s1600/GIALLO~1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="242" px="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNkeaPSaioI/AAAAAAAAAME/zbs3k_72gqw/s600/GIALLO~1.jpg" width="430" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Novembre è cominciato sotto la pioggia, devo confessare che è una sensazione strana tornare ad attaccarsi a tutte quelle cose colorate che sporgono dai pannelli delle palestre ma&amp;nbsp;pian piano si torna a farci l'abitudine... almeno finche non tornerà il sole. Allora mettetevi l'anima in pace e guardatevi questo piccolo video scemo girato in palestra provando appunto i nuovi obiettivi:&amp;nbsp;"&lt;strong&gt;Raining-Training&lt;/strong&gt;". Di più per ora non posso fare.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/16653802?byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600" width="450"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-7348124438382264616?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/7348124438382264616/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-toys.html#comment-form' title='4 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/7348124438382264616'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/7348124438382264616'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/11/new-toys.html' title='New Toys'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNkcgk_f8jI/AAAAAAAAALw/iZG-mWSqADE/s72-c/lenti.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-6367307055388142373</id><published>2010-11-06T19:22:00.000+01:00</published><updated>2010-11-06T19:22:57.681+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='pietra del toro'/><title type='text'>Basilicata Bloc Fest 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="255" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNQGxx57XwI/AAAAAAAAALM/zkcEww9jTxE/s1600/mucca2.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sabato 30 e domenica 31 ottobre 2010 si è tenuto il primo raduno boulder in Basilicata, nella splendida area di Pietra del Toro, a pochi passi da Potenza.&amp;nbsp;Avevo già&amp;nbsp;visitato il posto durante le vacanze di natale del 2008 e mi ero trovato molto a mio agio sui&amp;nbsp;suoi sassi di arenaria che tanto ricordano&amp;nbsp;per forme e tipo di roccia&amp;nbsp;quelli "casalinghi"&amp;nbsp;di Ceriola e dei Lagoni.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNQNo5HYSaI/AAAAAAAAALU/OOMoKRLd4O4/s1600/Img0073.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Agronomo non Praticante" border="0" height="300" px="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNQNo5HYSaI/AAAAAAAAALU/OOMoKRLd4O4/s600/Img0073.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Anche se&amp;nbsp;appena tornato&amp;nbsp;da Fontainebleau (1000 km in direzione opposta)&amp;nbsp;non volevo perdere l' occasione di rivedere il posto e arrampicare assieme a Graziano, Michele e&amp;nbsp;gli altri&amp;nbsp;ragazzi di Bari che tanto si sono dati da fare per valorizzare la zona ed organizzare l'evento.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNSRuqAp3-I/AAAAAAAAALY/A9k3M6HG77Y/s1600/Tzunami-emiliano-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" px="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNSRuqAp3-I/AAAAAAAAALY/A9k3M6HG77Y/s600/Tzunami-emiliano-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Così&amp;nbsp;mi sveglio di buon ora e guido fino ad Ascoli, dove Mauro e Daniela mi stanno aspettando, passiamo a prendere Guido, che è arrivato in treno sin da Genova,&amp;nbsp;e poi via&amp;nbsp;verso sud... il raduno è già cominciato e i&amp;nbsp;partecipanti si sono già spellati ben bene sui sassi. Noi faremo in tempo a raggiungerli solo&amp;nbsp;verso sera:&amp;nbsp;giusto il tempo di assistere alla proiezione dei video e poi tutti a cena. I cavatelli con la ricotta e i peperoni secchi sono&amp;nbsp;a dir poco&amp;nbsp;commoventi, l'ottimo vino fatto in casa dovrebbe avere 11 gradi, ma come minimo ne farà 14...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNSTH7HDhXI/AAAAAAAAALc/j4zj8KwO7dQ/s1600/Tzunami-daniela-1-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" px="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNSTH7HDhXI/AAAAAAAAALc/j4zj8KwO7dQ/s600/Tzunami-daniela-1-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;La notte&amp;nbsp;siamo gentilmente ospitati dai ragazzi di Bari e ci accampiamo in 11 nel&amp;nbsp;loro&amp;nbsp;appartamento.&amp;nbsp;Prima di poter dormire dobbiamo risolvere&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;l'annosa questione dell' ora legale: si dorme un' ora in più o un' ora in meno?? Data la stanchezza e il vino la cosa&amp;nbsp;sembra dannatamente complicata, ma&amp;nbsp;dopo una piccola riunione di cervelli risolviamo brillantemente il problema e ci concediamo finalmente il meritato riposo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNSW9KttW3I/AAAAAAAAALk/SXfmVQ1Bbcg/s1600/Img0060.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-right: 10px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Bloc Fest" border="0" height="330" px="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNSW9KttW3I/AAAAAAAAALk/SXfmVQ1Bbcg/s600/Img0060.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNSW0OQWS5I/AAAAAAAAALg/J4hq41Xe9cw/s1600/Img0047.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Agronomo non Praticante" border="0" height="330" px="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNSW0OQWS5I/AAAAAAAAALg/J4hq41Xe9cw/s600/Img0047.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Il giorno dopo&amp;nbsp;più di&amp;nbsp;un centinaio di persone si aggirano nel bosco:&amp;nbsp;un po' sono scalatori, un po'&amp;nbsp;sono gli&amp;nbsp;abitanti del paese&amp;nbsp;accorsi a vedere l'insolito spettacolo&amp;nbsp;e a raccogliere qualche&amp;nbsp;chilo di mazze di&amp;nbsp;tamburo. Io mi innamoro di un bellissimo spigolo ancora inviolato: bisogna riuscire a sedersi&amp;nbsp;in equilibrio su&amp;nbsp;un tallone e&amp;nbsp;allungarsi ad afferrare due piccoli&amp;nbsp;monoditi&amp;nbsp;svasati posti in modo simmetrico ai lati dello spigolo.&amp;nbsp;Poi un po' arcuando, un po' comprimendo si&amp;nbsp;riesce a&amp;nbsp;rialzare il piede alto alto&amp;nbsp;ed afferrare finalmente il bordo. "&lt;strong&gt;Agronomo non Praticante&lt;/strong&gt;" questo è il nome del nuovo nato, il grado è come al solito una comica: 8a, ma potrebbe essere molto meno o forse... molto di più.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNSbtKCxKII/AAAAAAAAALo/nBUA-nvP2Wk/s1600/Img0081.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img alt="Bloc Fest" border="0" height="300" px="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNSbtKCxKII/AAAAAAAAALo/nBUA-nvP2Wk/s600/Img0081.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In seguito concentro le mie attenzioni su uno dei passaggi "a premi" che si&amp;nbsp;chiama "&lt;strong&gt;Bloc Fest&lt;/strong&gt;". Graziano era riuscito a risolverlo in due parti, e pensava si aggirasse attorno all' 8a, però aspettava ancora una prima&amp;nbsp;vera salita. Il blocco è un&amp;nbsp;breve traverso su un bordo dalle prese veramente tonde e piatte, che finisce con un movomento dinamico ad un&amp;nbsp;buon buco salvatore che ti consente di ribaltarti.&amp;nbsp;Mi ci vuole tutto il resto del pomeriggio per trovare un metodo efficace, che alla fine guarda caso&amp;nbsp;si rivela essere la solita bella tallonata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" px="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNWVc-xwnYI/AAAAAAAAALs/FuM_C4AbqF8/s1600/premiazione.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Proprio allo scadere del tempo (prolungato&amp;nbsp;ovviamente "ad hoc"...), con la pelle delle mani ormai sfatta riesco finalmente a risolvere il passaggio e a raggiungere tutti gli altri che si stanno radunando al pratone per la premiazione finale e l'estrazione di ricchi premi e cotillons. Devo ringraziere ancora tutti quanti hanno pulito,&amp;nbsp;organizzato, sponsorizzato, partecipato, cucinato e... guidato&amp;nbsp;! E' stato proprio un bel weekend baciato dal sole quando in mezza Italia stava diluviando. Questa volta ho messo piu i panni dell' arrampicatore che del fotografo, ma potrete trovare tutte le belle foto di Emiliano Montanaro sul sito ufficiale &lt;a href="http://www.pietradeltoro.it/" target="_blank"&gt;www.pietradeltoro.it&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;. Ho fatto qualche breve ripresa scherzosa che ben riassume lo spirito del raduno. Intanto vi lascio vedere questo ma&amp;nbsp;spero di riuscire a portare a casa tanto bel materiale durante la prossima spedizione.&amp;nbsp;Allora arrivederci a&amp;nbsp;Capodanno !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="center"&gt;&lt;object height="278" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/sZmII17lWac?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/sZmII17lWac?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="278"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-6367307055388142373?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/6367307055388142373/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/11/basilicata-bloc-fest-2010.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/6367307055388142373'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/6367307055388142373'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/11/basilicata-bloc-fest-2010.html' title='Basilicata Bloc Fest 2010'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TNQGxx57XwI/AAAAAAAAALM/zkcEww9jTxE/s72-c/mucca2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-2041497649718138901</id><published>2010-10-27T23:22:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-11-06T00:46:09.148+01:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fontainebleau'/><title type='text'>Good Morning Bleau</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TMiNnNWwDwI/AAAAAAAAALA/jkXNzuPcwbo/s1600/sol_invictus-mik.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-right: 10px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="330" nx="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TMiNnNWwDwI/AAAAAAAAALA/jkXNzuPcwbo/s600/sol_invictus-mik.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TMiM_8gXRnI/AAAAAAAAAK8/bTiMCU2rvCM/s1600/double-axel.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="330" nx="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TMiM_8gXRnI/AAAAAAAAAK8/bTiMCU2rvCM/s600/double-axel.jpg" width="220" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Sono passati sette mesi ormai dall' ultima volta che ho toccato l'arenaria della Foresta e l'attesa stava diventando proprio insostenibile... l'uomo è una macchina che ha bisogno di ricaricare le pile ogni tanto, e io ho bisogno di trovarmi qui in mezzo al bosco e ai suoi tondi sassi...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TMiQhhPlbnI/AAAAAAAAALE/1sP9aoCXD88/s1600/isatis-notte.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" nx="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TMiQhhPlbnI/AAAAAAAAALE/1sP9aoCXD88/s600/isatis-notte.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Non c'è bisogno di provare 8b o 8c, qui non si scala dei gradi, ma si scala dei blocchi, dei veri blocchi. Se alla fine della giornata sei sfinito e hai dato tutte le energie per salire un 7c+, cosa importa? L'obiettivo è raggiunto: hai dato il massimo, ti sei impegnato, hai sofferto e alla fine sei riuscito. Farà meno notizia di un 8b bruttino che hai ripetuto velocemente, ma ti lascierà sicuramente qualcosa in più dentro.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TMiTvO_AauI/AAAAAAAAALI/y45pNRwgDTY/s1600/Island.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" nx="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TMiTvO_AauI/AAAAAAAAALI/y45pNRwgDTY/s600/Island.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;﻿Quindi buon giorno Bleau, dodoci giorni sono veramente poco rispetto ai miei standard, ma quando mi sveglio tutte le mattine il meteo mi fa un così bel regalo che posso stare in giro fino a sera, sfruttare ogni ora di luce per distruggere bene il fisico e ricaricare così la mente. Il tempo che mi rimane qui è ormai finito,&amp;nbsp;farò un racconto più dettagliato al mio ritorno, intanto godetevi qualche piccolo scorcio della foresta in autunno, casomai abbiate intenzione di fare un piccolo viaggio il prossimo ottobre...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="278" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rfc75w_Vl3s?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Rfc75w_Vl3s?fs=1&amp;amp;hl=it_IT&amp;amp;rel=0&amp;amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="278"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-2041497649718138901?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/2041497649718138901/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/10/good-morning-bleau.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/2041497649718138901'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/2041497649718138901'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/10/good-morning-bleau.html' title='Good Morning Bleau'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TMiNnNWwDwI/AAAAAAAAALA/jkXNzuPcwbo/s72-c/sol_invictus-mik.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-5316617657430296537</id><published>2010-10-10T22:15:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-10-10T22:20:36.903+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Un' estate di plastica</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ex="true" height="320" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TLGX7IlGU0I/AAAAAAAAAKw/8hxuQPtj7hc/s1600/gare.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Gare, gare, alla fine sono come una droga. Tutte le volte ti prometti di darci un taglio, tutte le volte ti ritrovi&amp;nbsp;ancora in&amp;nbsp;isolamento con le mani in mano&amp;nbsp;ad aspettare per l'ennesima volta che arrivi il tuo turno. Guardandoti attorno poi ti&amp;nbsp;rendi conto di non essere più il giovane ragazzino emergente,&amp;nbsp;pieno di speranze&amp;nbsp;e aspettative, ma di essere proprio uno dei più vecchi, in cui il tempo e l'esperienza hanno avuto modo di distruggerle completamente...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TLIVoJquYWI/AAAAAAAAAK0/I4qxaB3OrII/s1600/pangullich-mik-7-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ex="true" height="300" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TLIVoJquYWI/AAAAAAAAAK0/I4qxaB3OrII/s640/pangullich-mik-7-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Così quando vai male ti arrabbi, quando ottieni invece un successo non ci fai quasi caso e comunque non riesce più a ripagarti di tutti i sacrifici e del tempo che hai investito per ottenerlo. E' una questione di bilanci: quando gli aspetti negativi superano abbondantemente quelli positivi è ora di smettere, o almeno di prendersi una buona pausa...&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TLIayXbUAvI/AAAAAAAAAK4/pC5FWpgHZ3g/s1600/pizzellitruc-mauro-1-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" ex="true" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TLIayXbUAvI/AAAAAAAAAK4/pC5FWpgHZ3g/s640/pizzellitruc-mauro-1-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Il tempo purtroppo passa in fretta e intendo sfruttare quello che ho a disposizione nel modo migliore, quello cioè che mi permetta di vivere esperienze di cui terrò per sempre un buon ricordo e che possibilmente aiuti anche gli altri a vivere una parte dell' immensa passione che provo. Il tempo delle inutili giornate passate a ciondolare per il campo gara è finito. Ora arriva finalmente l' autunno, si torna alla roccia e ai progetti. Per festeggiare mi sono fatto un bel regalo: una &lt;b&gt;Canon 7D&lt;/b&gt;, qualche obiettivo nuovo e&amp;nbsp;un flash. Spero in questo modo di potervi fornire immagini e video sempre più belli... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Intanto godetevi questo primo filmato dei Lagoni, la guida nuova è in fase di preparazione ma la meteo di settembre non ha certo facilitato i lavori... speriamo che a novembre sia meglio, io per ora vi saluto e me ne scappo a Fontainebleau.&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;iframe frameborder="0" height="253" src="http://player.vimeo.com/video/15661471?byline=0&amp;amp;portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600" width="450"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-5316617657430296537?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/5316617657430296537/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/10/un-estate-di-plastica.html#comment-form' title='5 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/5316617657430296537'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/5316617657430296537'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/10/un-estate-di-plastica.html' title='Un&apos; estate di plastica'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TLGX7IlGU0I/AAAAAAAAAKw/8hxuQPtj7hc/s72-c/gare.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-3298194099420026815</id><published>2010-07-21T10:49:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-21T12:19:52.581+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Bleau à Bloc</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.versantesud.it/italiano/dettaglio.asp?id=261" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: .5em;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="350" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TEaqglUZydI/AAAAAAAAAKY/cek3rSjcJEE/s1600/BleauITA.jpg" width="254" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;E' da poco uscito il primo dei tre volumi scritti da Jacky Godoffe per Versante Sud dedicati alla foresta di Fontainebleau, al quale ho avuto il piacere di partecipare con alcune delle mie fotografie raccolte durante i molti anni di frequentazione. Che dire? Ormai è da tempo che quando giro per la foresta non mi porto nemmeno dietro la guida tanto conosco bene il posto, però sfogliando questo bel volume di più di 300 pagine ho finalmente scoperto con chiarezza dove si trovano, o dove passa la linea di alcuni blocchi che mi erano rimasti misteriosi, nonostante le svariate guide consultate. Tutto merito delle fotografie e della descrizione accurata di ogni singolo passaggio, che facilita molto la ricerca all' interno di questo meraviglioso labirinto di blocchi.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il lavoro di catalogazione fotografica è stato reso possibile grazie ad una selezione dei blocchi più belli e meritevoli dal 6a al 6c, mentre sono presenti tutti i passaggi di livello superiore. Ciò nonostante questo volume comprende solo i settori più vicini alla città di Fontainebleau, che comunque descrive in maniera molto esaustiva. Il tutto è completato da bellissime fotografie e dalle coordinate GPS di alcuni massi di riferimento.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;embed align="middle" allowfullscreen="true" flashvars="mode=embed&amp;amp;layout=http%3A%2F%2Fskin.issuu.com%2Fv%2Fcolor%2Flayout.xml&amp;amp;backgroundColor=CC6600&amp;amp;showFlipBtn=true&amp;amp;pageNumber=13&amp;amp;documentId=100608131247-24af794c0ae34c9492f9ad528c78a1e0&amp;amp;docName=bleau_a_bloc_ita&amp;amp;username=Edizioni_Versante_Sud&amp;amp;loadingInfoText=bleau%20%C3%A0%20bloc&amp;amp;et=1279702810231&amp;amp;er=55" menu="false" name="flashticker" quality="high" salign="l" scale="noscale" src="http://static.issuu.com/webembed/viewers/style1/v1/IssuuViewer.swf" style="height: 350px; width: 450px;" type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Aspetto con impazienza il secondo volume dove spero di trovare ancora qualche passaggio che mi era sfuggito...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-3298194099420026815?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/3298194099420026815/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/07/bleau-bloc.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/3298194099420026815'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/3298194099420026815'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/07/bleau-bloc.html' title='Bleau à Bloc'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TEaqglUZydI/AAAAAAAAAKY/cek3rSjcJEE/s72-c/BleauITA.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-2243802820737727384</id><published>2010-06-29T15:59:00.001+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-29T16:07:35.244+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Sardegna bloc su Pareti n.75</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="305" ru="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TCn3NZ-F3pI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/5wU6VfBkYVc/s1600/pareti1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Finalmente in edicola su&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="http://www.pareti.it/" target="_blank"&gt;Pareti&lt;/a&gt; #75 un corposo articolo con il resoconto delle&amp;nbsp;mie esplorazioni dei blocchi di Capo Testa e dell' isola&amp;nbsp;della Maddalena. L'ideale&amp;nbsp;se questa estate&amp;nbsp;assieme a&amp;nbsp;"pinne fucile ed occhiali" non potete rinunciare anche ad un paio di scarpette.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Troverete belle foto, informazioni utili e&amp;nbsp;una piccola mappa con i blocchi&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp; ... Buon bagno !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TCn3KBi6lSI/AAAAAAAAAJw/UlZ0qoYVIVA/s1600/dinosauro-mik-2-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ru="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TCn3KBi6lSI/AAAAAAAAAJw/UlZ0qoYVIVA/s600/dinosauro-mik-2-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-2243802820737727384?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/2243802820737727384/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/06/sardegna-bloc-su-pareti-n75.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/2243802820737727384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/2243802820737727384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/06/sardegna-bloc-su-pareti-n75.html' title='Sardegna bloc su Pareti n.75'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TCn3NZ-F3pI/AAAAAAAAAJ4/5wU6VfBkYVc/s72-c/pareti1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-7747815445605002888</id><published>2010-06-25T11:26:00.021+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-25T14:09:36.258+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ailefroide'/><title type='text'>Ailefroide 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dopo una sfortunata gara ad Ivrea, che ha visto la finale interrotta a metà causa il diluvio universale, avevo proprio bisogno di un po' di montagna e fresco per ricaricare le pile e ritrovare la motivazione... Ailefroide sembra perfetto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TCRn2AuElHI/AAAAAAAAAJY/o3LNKB9asY4/s1600/virata-mik-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ru="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TCRn2AuElHI/AAAAAAAAAJY/o3LNKB9asY4/s600/virata-mik-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dopo due giorni di pioggia quasi ininterrotta il cielo si schiarisce un po' e viene l'ora di tornare a provare &lt;b&gt;Virata&lt;/b&gt;, un blocco magnifico che tanto mi ha fatto penare in passato, fino al punto di causarmi la&amp;nbsp;rottura&amp;nbsp;del menisco e&amp;nbsp;lo stiramento&amp;nbsp;del legamento collaterale quando l'anno scorso,&amp;nbsp;non riuscendo ad issarmi su&amp;nbsp;quella malefica tacchetta ho pensato bene di far fare tutto il lavoro al tallone e al ginocchio... un&amp;nbsp;sonoro&amp;nbsp;CROCK! e due settimane di riabilitazione...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TCRr8aATDAI/AAAAAAAAAJg/Pf25--BFDZ8/s1600/virata-mik-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ru="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TCRr8aATDAI/AAAAAAAAAJg/Pf25--BFDZ8/s600/virata-mik-2.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/06/ailefroide-2010.html#more"&gt;- Leggi tutto / english follow -&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Domenica 20 sotto un cielo coperto, 9 gradi , e vento sostenuto la mia pelle ormai massacrata ritrova un po' della durezza necessaria per piantarsi nel granito,&amp;nbsp;allevviando un po'&amp;nbsp;il lavoro al ginocchio. Riesco così finalmente a&amp;nbsp;infilare le dita nel piccolo bidito-pinza ed agguantare soddisfatto il bordo. Ho trovato una mia&amp;nbsp;foto&amp;nbsp;risalente al 2001 mentre scalo su questo blocco, all' epoca avevo 16 anni... mi ci è voluto tanto per trovare le condizioni in estate ?? Quando un blocco ti piace e ti motiva ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TCRvuT9oZvI/AAAAAAAAAJo/iE7xEnWlUMc/s1600/virata-mik-3.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" ru="true" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TCRvuT9oZvI/AAAAAAAAAJo/iE7xEnWlUMc/s600/virata-mik-3.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Sempre sullo stesso masso riesco anche a salire il traverso integrale di "&lt;b&gt;Surprise du Chef&lt;/b&gt;" e il ditoso "&lt;b&gt;Agent Ghesquiers&lt;/b&gt;", ora però la rottura di una presa ha modificato un po' le sequenze, rendendo&amp;nbsp;il primo un&amp;nbsp;po' più facile e il secondo&amp;nbsp;decisamente più abbordabile, essendoci ora una buona banchetta per il tallone... alla fine mi sono sembrati entrambi più facili di Virata! (erano dati 8b e 8a+ rispettivamente)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Per finire in bellezza l'ultimo giorno mi alzo presto e riesco con grande sorpresa a concatenare anche il temibile "&lt;b&gt;Les Godiveaux&lt;/b&gt;", dove le prese sono talmente piccole e distanti che per essere tenute ti costringono a fare un delizioso e pazzesco incrocio in torsione... 8a forse se&amp;nbsp;sei 1,90 mt&amp;nbsp;per 60 kg ...&amp;nbsp;e&amp;nbsp;un bel tot in più&amp;nbsp;al&amp;nbsp;kilo&amp;nbsp;o al centimetro !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;object height="253" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12838733&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12838733&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="450" height="253"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;- English :&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;After a disappointing competition in Ivrea time has come to move to Ailefroide to relax a bit&amp;nbsp;and check out &lt;b&gt;Virata&lt;/b&gt; again, after the bad injury at menisc and collateral that&amp;nbsp;occurred last year on it ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;This time conditions were quite&amp;nbsp;good&amp;nbsp;thanks the stormy and windy weather, and my usually "soft" skin hardened enough&amp;nbsp;to stay on the tiny crimp, and catch the small pinch-pocket and finally reach the top! I've found a picture of me climbing on it in 2001, at the time I was only&amp;nbsp;16...&amp;nbsp;9 years to find good friction in summer&amp;nbsp;??&amp;nbsp;The&amp;nbsp;best&amp;nbsp;boulders always keep motivation high.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;On the same bloc I've also managed to repeat the whole traverse of "&lt;b&gt;Surprise du Chef&lt;/b&gt;" and the crimpy "&lt;b&gt;Agent Ghesquiers&lt;/b&gt;" but both felt a bit easier after a crimp broke, expecially the second one where now&amp;nbsp;you have quite a good&amp;nbsp;jug to place the hill...&amp;nbsp;in the end&amp;nbsp;I've found Virata&amp;nbsp;harder! (they were given 8b and 8a+ respectively)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Last day,&amp;nbsp;helped by&amp;nbsp;the&amp;nbsp;fresh of the&amp;nbsp;morning, I've surprised myself by sending "&lt;b&gt;Les Godiveaux&lt;/b&gt;" a quite reachy problem where&amp;nbsp;you have to make a big&amp;nbsp;cross move hanging&amp;nbsp;on&amp;nbsp;barely visible crimp... crazy and awesome. Maybe&amp;nbsp;It's 8a if you are 1,90 mt for 60 kilos... but much more&amp;nbsp;per kilo or centimeter !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-7747815445605002888?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/7747815445605002888/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/06/ailefroide-2010.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/7747815445605002888'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/7747815445605002888'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/06/ailefroide-2010.html' title='Ailefroide 2010'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TCRn2AuElHI/AAAAAAAAAJY/o3LNKB9asY4/s72-c/virata-mik-1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-4283479257099361774</id><published>2010-06-03T23:32:00.025+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-23T23:25:20.630+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='lagoni'/><title type='text'>The Hanging Project</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TAgZFQHTeqI/AAAAAAAAAI4/8GftFlBsYVA/s1600/hanging-project-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TAgZFQHTeqI/AAAAAAAAAI4/8GftFlBsYVA/s1600/hanging-project-7.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Verso la fine dell'&amp;nbsp;autunno scorso ero riuscito a realizzare tutti i singoli di questo strano spigolo strapiombante ma poi l'inverno e le piogge hanno inesorabilmente riempito d'acqua il ruscello costringendomi ad abbandonare il progetto, almeno fino a primavera ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TAgbaxLV-hI/AAAAAAAAAJA/PxvCYt1HLSo/s1600/hanging-project-11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="300" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TAgbaxLV-hI/AAAAAAAAAJA/PxvCYt1HLSo/s1600/hanging-project-11.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;... a primavera però la neve si scioglie e il ruscello&amp;nbsp;è ancora&amp;nbsp;pieno d'acqua, rimane poco tempo prima che arrivino caldo e zanzare! Alla fine dopo cinque giorni di battaglia e di cadute all' ultimo movimento ho finalmente scoperto il trucco (ovviamente una tallonata) e sono riuscito ad accoppiare sulla presa finale ... un po' triste, è vero, ma per ora le mie energie e le mie spalle non mi consentono di&amp;nbsp;andare oltre. Il progetto aspetta ancora qualcuno che riesca a salirci in cima, che riesca a domarlo e cavalcarlo. Per chi si accontenta rimane comunque un bell' 8b...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Grazie a Michele, Mauro ed Alberto, per le parate, per le riprese e per la pazienza.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TAgfNmiN9DI/AAAAAAAAAJI/MBmdSwenWds/s1600/hanging-project-16.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="300" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TAgfNmiN9DI/AAAAAAAAAJI/MBmdSwenWds/s1600/hanging-project-16.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;After five days of battle I've&amp;nbsp;managed to match on the good sloper at the end of this strange overhanging cube at Lagoni. It has been a race against upcoming summer,&amp;nbsp;not many days were&amp;nbsp;left before the arrival of heat and&amp;nbsp;an army of&amp;nbsp;mosquitoes... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Now, as you can see, the line is amazing, but&amp;nbsp;matching there is just it. At the moment it's the first 8b bloc of Lagoni, but it will remain THE HANGING PROJECT, till someone doesn't stand triumphant on its top. We will see next autumn !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Thanks to Michele, Mauro and Alberto for spotting, filming, and being patient.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;object height="253" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12268525&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=12268525&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="450" height="253"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: none; border-left: none; border-right: none; border-top: none; clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.michelecaminati.com/slideshow/hanging/index.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Guarda lo Slideshow / Watch the Slideshow :&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-4283479257099361774?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/4283479257099361774/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/06/hanging-project.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4283479257099361774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4283479257099361774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/06/hanging-project.html' title='The Hanging Project'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/TAgZFQHTeqI/AAAAAAAAAI4/8GftFlBsYVA/s72-c/hanging-project-7.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-8240740398180027731</id><published>2010-05-25T00:13:00.004+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-25T00:43:07.694+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Core tour 2010</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Caldo, l' estate sta per cominciare, un treno arriva a Bologna centrale alle 13:30 portando con se Cody, i suoi sorridenti capelli ricci e il suo mixer. Poi giu a Firenze: blocchi, festa, Pietro carico di scarpette, un intrico di cavi elettrici e prolunghe, le fave, il pecorino, la damigiana di vino, la cannetta per spillarlo e chi aspira più del necessario, poi risa, boati in sala, chi incita Nalle come se fosse li a pararlo... un aperitivo, Nano che scende le scale, Nano che sale le scale, il forno e i bomboloni, il duomo e Ponte Vecchio... ormai ad occhi chiusi nella notte una zuffa fra piccioni.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="253" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S_r4yxTFg6I/AAAAAAAAAIA/UES9_KUHOAQ/s1600/mixer.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Segue Verona, ancora amici, video e la voglia di scalare che torna all' improvviso alle 11 di sera, una piacevole chiacchierata, qualche ora di sonno e si è già di ritorno dai Lagoni con un chilo di gelato per guardare la partita.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" gu="true" height="253" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S_r5TU_ZgBI/AAAAAAAAAII/olSYamlzmLQ/s640/cody-miei.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;A Parma&amp;nbsp;il Leo, un mega telone e la super macchina pulitrice. Con Cody al mixer si fanno i blocchi pazzi: gente che lancia, gente perplessa, gente che infine ci riesce e si diverte. Poi arriva la pizza ma c'era già la birra cecoslovacca, quanto è buona la birra cecoslovacca?? Alla fine rimane Core, applausi di gradimento e un fusto da terminare...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="253" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/kMkxf3EF9jg&amp;hl=it_IT&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube-nocookie.com/v/kMkxf3EF9jg&amp;hl=it_IT&amp;fs=1&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="253"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ok, i miei ricordi sono&amp;nbsp;decisamente confusi, però sono stati davvero quattro giorni intensi: forse un po' stancanti ma davvero divertenti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Devo ringraziare&amp;nbsp;Cody,&amp;nbsp;Gianni, Irati, Michele, Cristiano, Pietro,&amp;nbsp;Andrea, Leo,&amp;nbsp;i ragazzi&amp;nbsp;del +Gaz, del King e del Pareti, infine&amp;nbsp;tutti voi che siete venuti a vedere. Con la vostra simpatia mi avete aiutato ad affrontare&amp;nbsp;una situazione per me&amp;nbsp;difficile e in&amp;nbsp;cui non vorrei essere coinvolto.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: right;"&gt;Michele.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-8240740398180027731?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/8240740398180027731/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/05/core-tour-2010.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/8240740398180027731'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/8240740398180027731'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/05/core-tour-2010.html' title='Core tour 2010'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S_r4yxTFg6I/AAAAAAAAAIA/UES9_KUHOAQ/s72-c/mixer.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-3719725775419016249</id><published>2010-05-05T13:38:00.051+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-05T17:26:18.062+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Core</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ieri sera finalmente ho&amp;nbsp;guardato&amp;nbsp;per la prima volta il video Core,&amp;nbsp;di cui avevo partecipato alle riprese assieme a Lucas&amp;nbsp;nel mese&amp;nbsp;di Ottobre in giro tra Sassofortino,&amp;nbsp;i Lagoni e Ceriola.&amp;nbsp;Chuck (il regista) mi ha gentilmente inviato una copia in download, così&amp;nbsp;ho collegato il file video alla tv Hd&amp;nbsp;con impianto Hi-Fi, alzato un po' il volume... e via !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.chuckfryberger.com/CORE_ABOUT.html" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: .5em; margin-right: 2px;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img align="textTop" border="0" height="345" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S-FYr28rmDI/AAAAAAAAAHE/MIbG1XwSPzc/s400/core_dvd_cover__33012.jpg" tt="true" width="250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;table border="0" style="height: 345px; width: 190px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Climbers:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Nalle Hukkataival&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Matt Wilder&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Fred Nicole&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Kilian Fischhuber&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Kevin Jorgeson&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;BJ Tilden&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Lucas Preti&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Cody Roth&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Michele Caminati&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;; font-size: x-small;"&gt;and many more...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Places:&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;; font-size: x-small;"&gt;South Africa, USA, Finland, Italy, Switzerland ...&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;File:&lt;/b&gt; &lt;/span&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;88min - 2GB - &lt;span style="font-size: xx-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;1600x800&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;Ora&amp;nbsp;anche&amp;nbsp;l' &lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bouldering.com/products/Core-HD-Download.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif; font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;HD Download&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&amp;nbsp;,&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-size: x-small;"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;oppure scarica&amp;nbsp;la&amp;nbsp;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.bouldering.com/products/CORE-Soundtrack-Download.html" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;span style="font-family: &amp;quot;Arial&amp;quot;,&amp;quot;Helvetica&amp;quot;,sans-serif;"&gt;&lt;b&gt;Soundtrack&lt;/b&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;!&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gia durante le riprese avevo capito che sarebbe stato qualcosa di differente dai soliti ritriti video d'arrampicata, Chuck era sempre attento a catturare dettagli : panorami, scorci, atmosfere, ogni immagine era trattata come una vera e propria fotografia ... in più cercava sempre di girare pezzi al di fuori dell' arrampicata, che fossero in grado di raccontare luoghi e personaggi nella maniera più genuina possibile.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il risultato è quindi 1h30 di vera passione : potrete vedere non solo gli arrampicatori scalare, ma comprenderete anche cosa li motiva a scalare, e come ognuno viva le sue passioni, i suoi progetti e i suoi fallimenti... il tutto ovviamente contornato da riprese mozzafiato, paesaggi incredibili e una curatissima colonna sonora che esalta al massimo ogni momento del video...  poi vedere Nalle che libera "Livin Large" vi assicuro ... non ha prezzo !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="253" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9803426&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9803426&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="450" height="253"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Vi aspetto quindi Venerdì&amp;nbsp;7&amp;nbsp;al &lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.melloblocco.it/about/il-programma/" target="_blank"&gt;Melloblocco&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; per l' anteprima nazionale, poi stiamo preparando assieme a Cody qualche serata di proiezione in giro per le palestre... a la settimana prossima per tutti i dettagli !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-3719725775419016249?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/3719725775419016249/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/05/core.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/3719725775419016249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/3719725775419016249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/05/core.html' title='Core'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S-FYr28rmDI/AAAAAAAAAHE/MIbG1XwSPzc/s72-c/core_dvd_cover__33012.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-8713818896947683992</id><published>2010-05-01T23:06:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-05-01T23:52:58.001+02:00</updated><title type='text'>www.michelecaminati.com</title><content type='html'>Non sapevo fare quasi nulla, a malapena controllare un bottone in flash... ...notti e notti al pc a cercare esempi, fare prove, smanettare... finché non guardi l'ora e vedi che sono le 4 o le 6 di mattina ...&lt;br /&gt;Comunque con la stessa cocciutaggine con cui assedio un blocco che non mi viene, sono riuscito alla fine ad ottenere quello che volevo. Non che ora sia diventato un esperto, ma almeno funziona! (almeno mi sembra...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="268" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S9yYgIT3TJI/AAAAAAAAAGM/LzS9MKJGsrs/s640/sito2.jpg" tt="true" width="450" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;E' così finalmente online il sito che dovrebbe ospitare questo blog. Anche se non è ancora pronta la sezione principale che raccoglierà le mie fotografie più belle,&amp;nbsp;sono già online tutti i video e gli slideshow dei blocchi... spero riusciate a trovare materiale per tenere viva la vostra passione !&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="323" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S9yXY5NXsUI/AAAAAAAAAGE/TiqRy3dkMnM/s640/sito1.jpg" tt="true" width="450" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Many many sleepless nights... ages spent&amp;nbsp;on the internet searching for&amp;nbsp;examples that would almost never work ... but&amp;nbsp;after all&amp;nbsp;it's like trying a&amp;nbsp;move that&amp;nbsp;you can't do ... stubborness is the key to victory.&lt;br /&gt;So I'm proud to present you the site that should host this blog. Even if the main section which will contain my picture galleries is not&amp;nbsp;ready jet, you can already watch&amp;nbsp;all&amp;nbsp;the movies and boulder's slideshows ... hope you can find&amp;nbsp;something to keep your passion alive!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-8713818896947683992?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/8713818896947683992/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/05/wwwmichelecaminaticom.html#comment-form' title='1 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/8713818896947683992'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/8713818896947683992'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/05/wwwmichelecaminaticom.html' title='www.michelecaminati.com'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S9yYgIT3TJI/AAAAAAAAAGM/LzS9MKJGsrs/s72-c/sito2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-8435310153624797944</id><published>2010-04-19T01:01:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-06-23T23:52:10.905+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brione'/><title type='text'>Vecchio Leone</title><content type='html'>&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Da quando vidi il video "Memento" di Bernd Zangerl per me Brione ha sempre significato una cosa : &lt;strong&gt;Vecchio Leone&lt;/strong&gt;. Questa linea magnifica sale un grande strapiombo&amp;nbsp;con praticamente&amp;nbsp;quattro soli&amp;nbsp;movimenti&amp;nbsp;su prese "discrete"&amp;nbsp;ma che costringono il tuo corpo a&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;grandi spallate e incredili torsioni.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8uDOhg8vNI/AAAAAAAAAFs/8sEIbO9moWE/s1600/vecchia-leone-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="266" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8uDOhg8vNI/AAAAAAAAAFs/8sEIbO9moWE/s400/vecchia-leone-2.jpg" width="400" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Le temperature primaverili ormai non aiutano&amp;nbsp;l' aderenza&amp;nbsp;e avendo iniziato a provare il blocco non mi rimaneva molto tempo per portare a termine&amp;nbsp;la missione...&amp;nbsp;fortunatamente pazienza e perseveranza sono mie buone doti e così sono tornato ben quattro giorni nell'arco di due settimane godendo del magnifico posto e aspettando la sera per fare i tentativi migliori.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8uIKuRjWpI/AAAAAAAAAF0/aPV02eari6c/s1600/vecchia-leone-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8uIKuRjWpI/AAAAAAAAAF0/aPV02eari6c/s400/vecchia-leone-4.jpg" width="400" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Sabato ho provato anche a&amp;nbsp;fare una&amp;nbsp;sessione mattutina (da cui proviene il video), ma è stato solo di sera tardi,&amp;nbsp;grazie al sostegno&amp;nbsp;di mio padre e della compagnia dei&amp;nbsp;miei amici che non mi hanno fatto perdere d'animo, che sono riuscito finalmente a venirne a capo.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8uK83dm-6I/AAAAAAAAAF8/ttrtJbf-_w0/s1600/vecchia-leone-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="267" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8uK83dm-6I/AAAAAAAAAF8/ttrtJbf-_w0/s400/vecchia-leone-5.jpg" width="400" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Così ora posso mostrarvi&amp;nbsp;il video&amp;nbsp;di uno dei più bei boulder della Svizzera, un solido 8b che penso&amp;nbsp;sia un buon termine di paragone per tutti gli altri... se volete venirlo a provare scaldatevi le spalle! Le mie stasera sono ancora a pezzi ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;object height="253" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11028890&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=11028890&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="450" height="253"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-8435310153624797944?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/8435310153624797944/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/04/vecchio-leone.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/8435310153624797944'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/8435310153624797944'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/04/vecchio-leone.html' title='Vecchio Leone'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8uDOhg8vNI/AAAAAAAAAFs/8sEIbO9moWE/s72-c/vecchia-leone-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-1885737299892658108</id><published>2010-04-11T17:50:00.005+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T09:42:05.196+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='brione'/><title type='text'>Rêve de Franz ...</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;“Ci sono uomini che vedono le cose come sono e si chiedono: Perché? Io sogno cose mai esistite e mi chiedo: Perché no?” (G.B. Shaw)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Io uno di questi uomini lo cosonsco: un bel pomeriggio a Brione il nostro amico&amp;nbsp;Franz (Francesco Spadea) disse più o meno... "Uè raga, guardate li ... rovescio, spallatona... tacchettina&amp;nbsp;e sei su... figo!"&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Dopo alcune prove realizzai subito la sequenza&amp;nbsp;ma poi caddi inesorabilmente all' uscita&amp;nbsp;che aveva ancora bisogno di una bella pulita e che non era del tutto scontata.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Così ieri in tutta calma, aspettando che il sole calasse dietro&amp;nbsp;il monte, sono tornato a dare una bella spazzolata, e poi nel pomeriggio con l'aiuto di un po' di brezza è nato appunto: &lt;strong&gt;Rêve de Franz&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Ora sorge il dilemma: ho aperto un nuovo passaggio o questo era già stato fatto?? Se lo sapete aiutatemi.&amp;nbsp;A me sembra circa sull' 8a, ma penso il grado dipenda molto dalla statura... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;object height="253" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10840576&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10840576&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff6600&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="450" height="253"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;“Some people see things as they are and say why? I dream things that never were and say why not?” (G.B. Shaw) &lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;That&amp;nbsp;was what&amp;nbsp;of a friend of mine, Franz, actually saw that day. But we didn't manage to do it and it remained only a dream. So yesterday I came back to accomplish his view and helped by the afternoon shade I (think I)&amp;nbsp;gave birth to &lt;strong&gt;Rêve de Franz&lt;/strong&gt;.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Now the dilemma : is it a first ascent or did somebody climb it already? Please help me to find out... I think the line is a crazy 8a, but the grade depends much on your height... enjoy !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-1885737299892658108?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/1885737299892658108/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/04/reve-de-franz.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/1885737299892658108'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/1885737299892658108'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/04/reve-de-franz.html' title='Rêve de Franz ...'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-4855405601779648524</id><published>2010-04-08T00:02:00.042+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-18T12:26:39.450+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='chironico'/><title type='text'>Boogalagga "numero uno".</title><content type='html'>Tornato a casa da una&amp;nbsp;tre giorni di raduno della nazionale, da cui mi sono parzialmente assentato per far visita agli amici di&amp;nbsp;La Sportiva,&amp;nbsp;non rimaneva molto&amp;nbsp;del ponte di pasqua&amp;nbsp;per organizzare un viaggio lungo,&amp;nbsp;così&amp;nbsp;lunedì decido di aggregarmi all' ormai collaudata squadra di Sheffield (Gabry,Niki e Marco) alla quale si aggiunge il mitico Simo (agli onori della cronaca Simone Raina)&amp;nbsp;per andare a vedere se i sassi di Chironico sono completamente sotto la neve o se si può sfruttare al meglio&amp;nbsp;la frizzante giornata primaverile. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8OXvbmYGoI/AAAAAAAAAE8/6bmdXTKh-V8/s1600/DSC_0164-2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8OXvbmYGoI/AAAAAAAAAE8/6bmdXTKh-V8/s320/DSC_0164-2.jpg" width="212" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8OX5jJz_fI/AAAAAAAAAFE/OHceq2G2m6Q/s1600/DSC_0172-4.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8OX5jJz_fI/AAAAAAAAAFE/OHceq2G2m6Q/s320/DSC_0172-4.jpg" width="213" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Arrivati al parcheggio troviamo fortunatamente solo una spruzzata di neve che si sta rapidamente sciogliendo, i sassi sono quasi tutti asciutti e la giornata promette molto bene, così ci avviamo tra i sassi canticchiando una canzoncina tanto seria quanto noi e i nostri discorsi... Numero Uno !!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;In effetti la giornata è una di quelle da ricordare: non starò a fare l'elenco dei vari blocchi provati e flashati, siano essi veri o falsi 8a.&amp;nbsp;(per questo&amp;nbsp;c'è un accurata descrizione sul &lt;a href="http://gabriele-moroni.blogspot.com/2010/04/chironico.html" target="_blank"&gt;blog&lt;/a&gt; di Gabry) Comunque tutte linee&amp;nbsp;imponenti e&amp;nbsp;magnifiche, che non penso mi sarei azzardato a provare come al solito solo, senza un po' d'&amp;nbsp;incitamento e una buona parata.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8OYUrm6H_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/UnSFjtiiHgs/s1600/DSC_0177-5.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 0px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8OYUrm6H_I/AAAAAAAAAFM/UnSFjtiiHgs/s320/DSC_0177-5.jpg" width="213" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8OYc-eGHNI/AAAAAAAAAFU/gs8j7l4RD40/s1600/DSC_0182-7.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8OYc-eGHNI/AAAAAAAAAFU/gs8j7l4RD40/s320/DSC_0182-7.jpg" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8OZhPhcq6I/AAAAAAAAAFc/TiHHnVEw5fs/s1600/DSC_0183-8.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; cssfloat: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="400" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8OZhPhcq6I/AAAAAAAAAFc/TiHHnVEw5fs/s400/DSC_0183-8.jpg" width="266" wt="true" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Fra questi c'era un blocco in particolare,&amp;nbsp;che avevo già&amp;nbsp;visto e che era uno dei miei&amp;nbsp;principali obiettivi qui a Chironico: &lt;strong&gt;Boogalagga &lt;/strong&gt;un bellissimo 8b di Bernd Zangerl, che corre uno spigolo liscio come un diamante, su cui sono disegnate&amp;nbsp;pinze e tacche piatte, giusto&amp;nbsp;&amp;nbsp;all' occorrenza ... non avrei mai pensato di riuscire a salirlo in giornata,&amp;nbsp;come al solito parto sempre con molta&amp;nbsp;diffidenza, pero devo dire che questo qui era proprio il mio stile !&amp;nbsp;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Per le foto ringrazio Marco Pelle e un po' di lavoro su Lightroom...&amp;nbsp;Intanto qui eccone un altra di Gabry che fa ripetute di allenamento&amp;nbsp;su &lt;strong&gt;Miss Schweiz&lt;/strong&gt;, un altro dei bellissimi blocchi che ci ha regalato questa giornata, appunto ... &lt;strong&gt;numero uno !&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7z_c_E_hnI/AAAAAAAAAE0/vANI2_FHcRQ/s1600/miss.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 0.5em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" nt="true" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7z_c_E_hnI/AAAAAAAAAE0/vANI2_FHcRQ/s320/miss.jpg" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;object height="190" width="235"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IyLzLDEf8BU&amp;hl=it_IT&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IyLzLDEf8BU&amp;hl=it_IT&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="235" height="190"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-4855405601779648524?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/4855405601779648524/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/04/boogalagga-numero-uno.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4855405601779648524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4855405601779648524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/04/boogalagga-numero-uno.html' title='Boogalagga &quot;numero uno&quot;.'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S8OXvbmYGoI/AAAAAAAAAE8/6bmdXTKh-V8/s72-c/DSC_0164-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-6511913148576409335</id><published>2010-03-31T22:05:00.002+02:00</published><updated>2010-04-12T09:42:59.606+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='ceriola'/><title type='text'>British day in Ceriola</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;Certe volte la meteo è proprio bizzarra... oggi a Ceriola c'era proprio tutto: vento, sole, nuvole e alla fine immancabile pioggerellina... mancavano solo le pecore... sono di nuovo a Sheffield !! Anche la grana della roccia è molto simile, peccato che dopo&amp;nbsp;un inverno di pioggia e neve c'è bisogno di rimettere mano alle spazzole per levare l'immancabile strato di sabbietta e muschio... che rende i piatti di "sensazione" di una sensazione&amp;nbsp;veramente sgradevole. Così dopo due o tre ore di pulizia&amp;nbsp;con la&amp;nbsp;corda, domenica riprendono vita due vecchi progetti: "Youtube" (il cui verdetto di fattibilità è&amp;nbsp;ancora in sospeso) e&amp;nbsp;&lt;strong&gt;"Il Toro Meccanico"&lt;/strong&gt;, che questo pomeriggio si concretizza in uno dei più belli 7b+/7c di Ceriola... in barba al vento e alla bufera !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: justify;"&gt;&lt;object height="258" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/qctT7W4JMQA&amp;hl=it_IT&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"&gt;&lt;/param&gt;&lt;embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/qctT7W4JMQA&amp;hl=it_IT&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0&amp;color1=0xe1600f&amp;color2=0xfebd01" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="450" height="258"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-6511913148576409335?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/6511913148576409335/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/03/british-day-in-ceriola.html#comment-form' title='0 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/6511913148576409335'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/6511913148576409335'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/03/british-day-in-ceriola.html' title='British day in Ceriola'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-4453376885693907691</id><published>2010-03-31T11:29:00.003+02:00</published><updated>2010-03-31T12:06:38.225+02:00</updated><title type='text'>Teoria Unificata dei Gradi d'Arrampicata: 1) Assiomi e definizioni</title><content type='html'>La nostra teoria si fonda sui concetti primitivi di “&lt;i&gt;roccia&lt;/i&gt;”, “&lt;i&gt;tentativo&lt;/i&gt;” e “&lt;i&gt;chiusura&lt;/i&gt;” che non verranno da noi definiti inquanto ben radicati nella comunità degli arrampicatori. (Ok d’accordo, è una cazzata, però...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il nostro obbiettivo principale è quello di costruire una “funzione grado” che ci dirà esattamente il grado di &lt;i&gt;qualsiasi&lt;/i&gt; problema d’arrampicata in &lt;i&gt;qualsiasi&lt;/i&gt; istante di tempo considerato perché non riusciamo assolutamente a dormire sonni tranquilli altrimenti.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Useremo le comuni notazioni &lt;b&gt;N&lt;/b&gt;,&lt;b&gt;Q&lt;/b&gt;,&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt;, per gli insiemi di numeri naturali, razionali e reali rispettivamente.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Sia &lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt; l’insieme di tutte le rocce, e tϵ&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt; la coordinata “temporale”.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Per ogni xϵ&lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt;, tϵ&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt;, denoteremo con &lt;b&gt;A&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) l’insieme dei &lt;i&gt;tentativi&lt;/i&gt; su x fino al tempo t, e con &lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) l’insieme delle &lt;i&gt;chiusure&lt;/i&gt; di x fino al tempo t.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Assioma 1) &lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt; è finito. (ci piacerebbe che non fosse così...)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Assioma 2) ogni “&lt;i&gt;chiusura&lt;/i&gt;” è anche un “&lt;i&gt;tentativo&lt;/i&gt;”. (allora &lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)⊆&lt;b&gt;A&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) per ogni tϵ&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt;, xϵ&lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Assioma 3) &lt;b&gt;A&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) è finito per ogni xϵ&lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt;, tϵ&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;(allora così è pure &lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;(x,t))&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;&lt;a name='more'&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora possiamo definire le funzioni &lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;,&lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt;×&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt; → &lt;b&gt;N&lt;/b&gt; come:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)=#&lt;b&gt;A&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) (numero di elementi di &lt;b&gt;A&lt;/b&gt;(x,t))&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)=#&lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) (numero di elementi &lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;(x,t))&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Osservare che per l’ assioma 3) consegue che: 0 ≤ &lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) ≤ &lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) per ogni xϵ&lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt;, tϵ&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt;.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Assioma 4) per ogni xϵ&lt;b&gt;∆ &lt;/b&gt;sia &lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) che &lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) sono funzioni crescenti di t.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;(Attraverso l’ assioma 4) ci assicuriamo che i numeri di tentativi e chiusure non decrescano nel tempo)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Definizione: chiamiamo un &lt;b&gt;problema&lt;/b&gt; un punto (x,t) di &lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt;×&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt; per il quale &lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) ≠ 0. (diremo “x è un &lt;i&gt;problema&lt;/i&gt; al tempo t”)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Osservazione: se (k,&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;) è un problema allora (x,t) è un problema per ogni t&amp;gt;&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;. (Assioma 4)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Definizione: un problema (x,t) si dice un &lt;b&gt;progetto &lt;/b&gt;se &lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) = 0. (diremo “x è un &lt;i&gt;progetto &lt;/i&gt;al tempo t”)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Definizione: essendo (x,t) un progetto chiamiamo &lt;b&gt;classe&lt;/b&gt; di (x,t) il numero naturale n=&lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t). (diremo “x è un &lt;i&gt;progetto&lt;/i&gt; &lt;i&gt;di classe n&lt;/i&gt; al tempo t”)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Definizione: si dice un &lt;b&gt;&lt;i&gt;problema liberato&lt;/i&gt;&lt;/b&gt; un problema che non è un &lt;i&gt;progetto&lt;/i&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Osservazione: ancora se (x,&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;) è un problema liberato allora (x,t) è un problema liberato per ogni t&amp;gt;&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;. (Assioma 4)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Definizione: essendo (x,&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;) un problema liberato diremo “x &lt;i&gt;è stato un progetto di classe n&lt;/i&gt;” dove n=max{&lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) | tϵ&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt; &amp;amp; (x,t) è un progetto} .&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Definizione: chiamiamo (x,t) &lt;b&gt;solo un pezzo di roccia&lt;/b&gt; se &lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) = 0. (diremo “x è &lt;i&gt;solo un pezzo di roccia&lt;/i&gt; al tempo t, vecchio...”)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Osservazione: se (x,&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;) è solo un pezzo di roccia allora (x,t) è solo un pezzo di roccia per ogni t&amp;lt;&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;. (Assioma 4)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ora siamo pronti a definire la funzione &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;: &lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt;×&lt;b&gt;R &lt;/b&gt;→ [0,1] che chiamiamo “&lt;b&gt;funzione grado&lt;/b&gt;” come:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) = 0 ---------------- se (x,t) è solo un pezzo di roccia.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) = &lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)/&lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) --- se (x,t) è un problema.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Osservare che per l’ assioma 3) e per definizione, per ogni xϵ&lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt; e tϵ&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt;, &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) è un numero razionale qϵ&lt;b&gt;Q &lt;/b&gt;tale che 0≤q≤1.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Prima di fare considerazioni dobbiamo dare ancora qualche definizione e assioma:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Definizione: per ogni problema (x,t) e (y,s) diremo “(x,t) è &lt;i&gt;più duro&lt;/i&gt; (o &lt;i&gt;facile&lt;/i&gt;) di (y,s)” se &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)≤&lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(y,s) (rispettivamente &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)≥&lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(y,s)) e &lt;i&gt;molto&lt;/i&gt; più duro o facile se le disuguaglianze sono strette.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Definizione: un problema (x,t) si dice una &lt;b&gt;scala&lt;/b&gt; se &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) = 1. (diremo “x è veramente na &lt;i&gt;scala&lt;/i&gt; al tempo t”) &lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Di conseguenza ogni progetto è molto più duro di qualsiasi problema liberato che è più duro di qualsiasi scala. E non si può dire che qualsiasi “solo un pezzo di roccia” sia più duro o più facile di qualsiasi altra cosa.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Assioma 5) &lt;b&gt;Unicità dei tentativi&lt;/b&gt;: per ogni xϵ&lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt;, tϵ&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt; al più un tentativo può avvenire su x al tempo t. (si suppone che i corpi dei climbers siano fatti di materia solida)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Assioma 6) &lt;b&gt;Discretezza dei tentativi&lt;/b&gt;: per ogni xϵ&lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt;, tϵ&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt; esiste un&lt;b&gt; &lt;/b&gt;Ɛ&amp;gt;0, Ɛϵ&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt; tale che nessun tentativo accade su x durante il periodo (t-Ɛ,t)∪(t,t+Ɛ). (anche il climber più fanatico deve fare almeno un “&lt;i&gt;Ɛ-riposo”&lt;/i&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Notare che se un tentativo accade su x al tempo t, allora nessun altro tentativo accade su x fra t-Ɛ e t+Ɛ, e se nessun tentativo accade su x al tempo t allora nessun tentativo accade su x fra t-Ɛ e t+Ɛ.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;Definizione: chiamiamo una &lt;b&gt;caduta&lt;/b&gt; un &lt;i&gt;tentativo&lt;/i&gt; che non è una &lt;i&gt;chiusura&lt;/i&gt;. (allora essendo &lt;b&gt;F&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) l’insieme delle cadute su x fino al tempo t, abbiamo: &lt;b&gt;F&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)=&lt;b&gt;A&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)\&lt;b&gt;S&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) e &lt;b&gt;f&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)=#&lt;b&gt;F&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)=&lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)-&lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)≥0 per ogni xϵ&lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt;, tϵ&lt;b&gt;R&lt;/b&gt;)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Analizziamo ora l’ effetto di una nuova caduta avvenuta su un problema x al tempo &lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt; : &lt;br /&gt;per l’ assioma 6, prendendo t “abbastanza vicino” a &lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt; con t&amp;lt;&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;, possiamo assumere &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)=s/a per qualche s,aϵ&lt;b&gt;N&lt;/b&gt; con s≤a e a&amp;gt;0.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Allora &lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;)=&lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)+1=a+1 e &lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;(x,&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;)=&lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)=s, ora: &lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;) = s/(a+1) = (s/a) – (s/a)/(a+1) = &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) – (&lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)/(a+1)) ≤ &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Osservazione: ogni nuova caduta su un problema (x,t) fa &lt;u&gt;decrescere&lt;/u&gt; il grado di (x,t) di una quantità non negativa: &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)/[&lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)+1]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Altrimenti se una chiusura accade su un problema x al tempo &lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;, ancora per l’ assioma 6, prendendo t “abbastanza vicino” a &lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt; con t&amp;lt;&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;, possiamo assumere: &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)=s/a per qualche s,aϵ&lt;b&gt;N&lt;/b&gt; con s≤a e a&amp;gt;0, &lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;)=&lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)+1=a+1 and &lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;(x,&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;)=&lt;b&gt;s&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)+1=s+1, allora:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ul&gt;&lt;li&gt;&lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;) = (s+1)/(a+1) = (s/a) + [1-(s/a)]/(a+1) = &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) + [1-&lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)]/(a+1) ≥ &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Osservazione: ogni nuova chiusura su un problema (x,t) fa &lt;u&gt;crescere&lt;/u&gt; il grado di (x,t) della quantità non negativa: [1-&lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)]/[&lt;b&gt;a&lt;/b&gt;(x,t)+1]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ul&gt;Avendo constatato questo è facile provare (esercizio n.1) che per ogni xϵ&lt;b&gt;∆&lt;/b&gt; la funzione &lt;b&gt;G&lt;/b&gt;(x,t) è “costante a tratti” con &lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt; come punto di discontinuità dove:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;(x,&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;) è un &lt;i&gt;scala&lt;/i&gt; tale che &lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;=min{tϵ&lt;b&gt;R &lt;/b&gt;| (x,t) è un problema}.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;(x,&lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;) è un &lt;i&gt;problema liberato&lt;/i&gt; che non è una &lt;i&gt;scala&lt;/i&gt; e tale che un &lt;i&gt;tentativo&lt;/i&gt; accade su x al tempo &lt;u&gt;t&lt;/u&gt;.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt;Ora tutto quello che dovete fare è chiedere a &lt;b&gt;8a.nu&lt;/b&gt; di aggiungere la possibilità di tenere conto di tutti i vostri tentativi e sarete finalmente in grado di dire qualcosa di “oggettivo” sui gradi... facile come salire na “scala”…&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ulteriori studi sul limite del grado, popolarità di un problema, livello medio degli arrampicatori e scale di gradazione non sono al momento&amp;nbsp;sostenibili causa taglio dei fondi per la ricerca in&amp;nbsp; finanziaria ...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Michele Caminati.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Il Grado di un Problema:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7MVNRMPN1I/AAAAAAAAAEE/RZnwHuYwYts/s1600/gradi.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="258" nt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7MVNRMPN1I/AAAAAAAAAEE/RZnwHuYwYts/s400/gradi.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-4453376885693907691?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/4453376885693907691/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/03/teoria-unificata-dei-gradi-darrampicata.html#comment-form' title='5 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4453376885693907691'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4453376885693907691'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/03/teoria-unificata-dei-gradi-darrampicata.html' title='Teoria Unificata dei Gradi d&apos;Arrampicata: 1) Assiomi e definizioni'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7MVNRMPN1I/AAAAAAAAAEE/RZnwHuYwYts/s72-c/gradi.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>5</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4780108708516896497.post-5533492682726150884</id><published>2010-03-30T14:00:00.008+02:00</published><updated>2010-07-05T16:08:38.254+02:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='fontainebleau'/><title type='text'>Febbraio - Marzo 2010... Font &amp; Sheffield</title><content type='html'>&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Tornato a casa dopo un mese e mezzo di vagabondaggio i ricordi cominciano ormai&amp;nbsp;ad accavallarsi e confondersi nella memoria, tutto quello che posso dire è che è stato un mese sicuramente pieno e movimentato, iniziato con freddo, neve e incidenti stradali e finito con sole, vento e ovviamente tanta roccia sotto le mani, si tratti di&amp;nbsp;gres o gritstone ... &lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7HKDSFZXMI/AAAAAAAAADU/jn001JmlIPE/s1600/IMG_2968-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="cssfloat: left;" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" nt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7HKDSFZXMI/AAAAAAAAADU/jn001JmlIPE/s400/IMG_2968-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Inanzitutto devo fare i saluti ad Anita, Antoine, Claude&amp;nbsp;e allo staff dell' Antrebloc, poi un ringraziamento speciale a Camille e Nico, per la loro ospitalità, e la gioia che sanno sempre trasmettere.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Merci, a la prochaine !!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7HNeAY6n4I/AAAAAAAAADk/qe78MrkSjgU/s1600/IMG_3038-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target="_&amp;quot;blank&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" nt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7HNeAY6n4I/AAAAAAAAADk/qe78MrkSjgU/s320/IMG_3038-1.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a blank"="" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7HLa0tkFgI/AAAAAAAAADc/GbbZGC919h0/s1600/io_duel_11.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 5px; margin-right: 0px;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="320" nt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7HLa0tkFgI/AAAAAAAAADc/GbbZGC919h0/s320/io_duel_11.jpg" width="213" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify" class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: justify;"&gt;Per quanto riguarda i blocchi le fredde giornate di vento mi hanno finalmente concesso di salire "&lt;a href="http://bleau.info/carnage/13685.html" target="_blank"&gt;God save my finger&lt;/a&gt;" (8a\+)&amp;nbsp;e finalmente il mitico&amp;nbsp;&lt;b&gt;&lt;a href="http://bleau.info/cretesud/526.html" target="_blank"&gt;DUEL&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/b&gt; (8a),&amp;nbsp;che con quattro anni di tentativi è stata una delle più grandi battaglie che ho intrapreso... Avete presente tutte le ore che ho passato li sotto ?? Ormai alla base c'è la buca come sul divano di Homer Simpson.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Una menzione speciale merita poi "&lt;a href="http://bleau.info/marlenval/11188.html" target="_blank"&gt;Elephunk&lt;/a&gt;" (8b),&amp;nbsp;uno di quei blocchi che&amp;nbsp;mi fa ricordare il perchè vengo sempre qui a Bleau...&amp;nbsp;ci sarebbe poi un altro blocco bellissimo,&amp;nbsp;che volevo assolutamente&amp;nbsp;salire,&amp;nbsp;ma come al solito sarò costretto a tornare su ancora una volta. (Il che devo dire non mi dispiace affatto)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7HcLKy6xpI/AAAAAAAAADs/njVR6zeQ7aQ/s1600/P1000543.jpg" target="_blank"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" nt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7HcLKy6xpI/AAAAAAAAADs/njVR6zeQ7aQ/s600/P1000543.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7HcreB283I/AAAAAAAAAD0/zG1AdzDt-P0/s1600/26184_1368341777491_1500104389_918155_2820915_n.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; cssfloat: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-right: .5em;" target="_&amp;quot;blank&amp;quot;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" nt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7HcreB283I/AAAAAAAAAD0/zG1AdzDt-P0/s320/26184_1368341777491_1500104389_918155_2820915_n.jpg" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Tornato da a casa dopo 3 ore di scalata a Cuvier e 10 ore di viaggio, ho&amp;nbsp;giusto il tempo di prendere qualche vestito pulito e via, il mattino dopo&amp;nbsp;si riparte per una settimana a Sheffield !!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Il team italiano è costituito da me, Gabriele Moroni, Niccolò Ceria e Marco Pelle. Il motivo principale del viaggio è il "&lt;a href="http://www.climbingworks.com/" target="_blank"&gt;Climbing Works International Festival&lt;/a&gt;" (CWIF), master internazionale&amp;nbsp;organizzato dalla&amp;nbsp;palestra di Sheffield. Più di 30 blocchi&amp;nbsp;preparati da un eccezionale equipe di tracciatori, 3 tentativi al massimo per risolverli, 5 ore di scalata a disposizione e a seguire semifinali, finali, hamburger, birra, party...&amp;nbsp;veramente una bella manifestazione !&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Dopo le qualifiche il peso delle due settimane di scalata non stop a bleau incomincia a farsi sentire e alla fine mi ritrovo al nono posto, comunque abbastanza soddisfatto. Poi c'è sempre Gabri a tirare su le sorti della squadra, che si piazza secondo dietro ad uno scatenato Pouvreau in una bellissima finale.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;Il resto dei giorni volano fra una pinte di Ale, eggs and bacon,&amp;nbsp;un po' di pioggia, vento, prati, pecore e Gritstone... bellissimo e durissimo gritstone. Per i problemi&amp;nbsp;più difficili, e magari per provare qualche via è meglio ritornare con un po' più di tempo e soprattutto di pelle... comunque anche rifarsi qualche grande classico guardarsi il panorama è sempre molto bello.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7HmbZBCbBI/AAAAAAAAAD8/Jx_m2qk0WM8/s1600/IMG_3054-1.jpg" imageanchor="1" target"_blank"=""&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" nt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7HmbZBCbBI/AAAAAAAAAD8/Jx_m2qk0WM8/s600/IMG_3054-1.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;object height="253" width="450"&gt;&lt;param name="allowfullscreen" value="true" /&gt;&lt;param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" /&gt;&lt;param name="movie" value="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10479316&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff9933&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" /&gt;&lt;embed src="http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=10479316&amp;amp;server=vimeo.com&amp;amp;show_title=1&amp;amp;show_byline=1&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=ff9933&amp;amp;fullscreen=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" width="450" height="253"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;/object&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;See you Sheffield !&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-5533492682726150884?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/5533492682726150884/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/03/febbraio-2010-font-sheffield.html#comment-form' title='2 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/5533492682726150884'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/5533492682726150884'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/03/febbraio-2010-font-sheffield.html' title='Febbraio - Marzo 2010... 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In effetti dovrebbe funzionare come sezione news all' interno&amp;nbsp;del mio&amp;nbsp;sito,&amp;nbsp;in cui&amp;nbsp;in futuro si potranno trovare tutte le mie&amp;nbsp;raccolte fotografiche e alcuni video.&amp;nbsp;Purtroppo&amp;nbsp;il sito è ancora&amp;nbsp;in fase di preparazione (a bleau ha fatto troppo bello per lavorare)&amp;nbsp;ma pian piano ci sto saltando fuori ...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="justify"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div align="justify" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none;"&gt;Un saluto a tutti , spero che qui possiate trovare materiale che sia da stimolo per la vostra passione e per i vostri progetti.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div class="separator" style="border-bottom: medium none; border-left: medium none; border-right: medium none; border-top: medium none; clear: both; text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Erxd_dKJI/AAAAAAAAACE/D_-0BNVQ9Gg/s1600/capo-placca3-2.jpg" imageanchor="1"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="300" nt="true" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Erxd_dKJI/AAAAAAAAACE/D_-0BNVQ9Gg/s600/capo-placca3-2.jpg" width="450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div align="right" style="bottom: 20px; position: relative; right: 10px; z-index: inherit;"&gt;&lt;img border="0" height="55" nt="true" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7EsFNBDQfI/AAAAAAAAACM/xQaNMZW9jR0/s200/firmawhite.gif" width="200" /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/4780108708516896497-4938499414321269357?l=michelecaminati.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/feeds/4938499414321269357/comments/default' title='Commenti sul post'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-e-sito.html#comment-form' title='3 Commenti'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4938499414321269357'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/4780108708516896497/posts/default/4938499414321269357'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://michelecaminati.blogspot.com/2010/03/blog-e-sito.html' title='Blog e sito'/><author><name>michelecaminati</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04009755354934828297</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='28' height='32' src='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Cwyzx7KLI/AAAAAAAAAAM/uxDLdoCNclg/S220/io2-cubo.jpg'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_75xpqGDIObM/S7Erxd_dKJI/AAAAAAAAACE/D_-0BNVQ9Gg/s72-c/capo-placca3-2.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry></feed>
