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In this page you will find all the routes we bolted and all the boulderers we put up throughout the world.

Greece

Kyparissi / Babala sector
  • Sequoia Love, 8a. FA by Charlotte and Josh
30 meters, 14 quickdraws + anchor
Bolting date : September 17th 2017
  • Tarsus Manus, 8c. FA by Charlotte
25 meters, 12 quickdraws + anchor
Bolting date : September 8th 2017
  • Scorpio, 8c+/9a ?. Open project
35 meters, 17 quickdraws + anchor
Bolting date : September 10th 2017

Tinos / Livada sector
  • Sea goats, V6. FA by Charlotte and Josh
Established date : September 27th 2017 
From the beach of Livada, walk left (looking at the sea) on the rocks along the water until you find the boulder. Start on the right side of it, with a sloper and a big ledge for the feet. Climb all the way to the left of it and top out.
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 Serbia

In Serbia, down around Nis, we developped a all new sector is one of the gorges. Creating it included setting a tyrolean over a river, making some trails in a sleep hill, and obviously, bolting some new lines. The place itself was mindblowing when we first got to it, because it's a giant cave, with a roof up to about 25m. It was definitively a challenging project, because we had to bolt ground up, and the steepness of the wall made it a nightmare sometimes.

Galeti cave
  • First rule of fight club, 7a+. FA by Charlotte
  • Blind contorsion, 8c. Open project
  • ​High hope, 8c?. Open project
  • Beavis and Butt-Head, 8b/+?. Open project
  • Beavis and Butt-Head extension, 9a?. Open project

New Zealand

Mt. Cook 
​Along the path towards Hooker Lake is a selection of granite bouldering that locals have established. Good granite, great views, loads of tourists and plenty of lines to be climbed and cleaned. I flat 45min stroll down the double wide track took us to most of the boulders listed below.
  • Dude Incredible Sit Start (V10)
  • Water Line (V7)
  • Green Monstah (V9)
  • The Greench (V2)

Puerto Rico

ROUTES
Piedra Blanca
A 70' Granite Tower sitting on top of a hill overlooking the rolling hills and Atlantic Ocean. A scene needed to be seen by your own eyes and touched by your own skin. The towers summit was unreached until 2017 when we both took a trip to Peurto Rico to try and find a way. Needless to say, 1 year later there are now 8 sport routes bolted by the locas and us from 5.9 to 5.13 and a project. Here is what we sent and bolted during this trip;
  • Jo 5.13b / 8a First ascent by Charlotte and Josh
9 Bolts, 65 Feet
Bolted date: 3/22/18
Sent date: 3/23/18
  • Dancing Queen 5.13b / 8b First Ascent by Josh and Charlotte
11 Bolts, 65 Feet
Bolted date: 1/10/17
Sent date: 3/21/2018
BOULDERING
The ongoing bouldering development in Puerto Rico is endless to say the least. Josh has been going there for 4 years now to develop more lines and zone with the locals. So much climbing, so many first ascents and all on near perfect, solid granite! Some of our first ascents during this last trip were;
  • Granite Face V10 (FA by Josh)
A high start rail with no feet and no hands above. A true mantel/press staying so close to the wall...
  • Big Mama V13 (FA by Josh) 
A three season process of failing and having to leave the island before mama would go down. About 4 moves over 15' of climbing, a big deadpoint, a pain in the ass match, a shity gaston crimp to a huge all points off dyno. A enjoyable topout.
  • Thumb-thing V8 (FA by Josh)
A cool, simple power boulder with unique holds
  • Papaya Popper V9 (FA by Josh)
A sick bloc we've seen from the highway, 20' from the roads edge, pure boulder problem!
  • Iguana Dive V8 (FA by Josh)
Another wild feature hanging over the road! Jump start, campus, campus bump, campus match, delicate topout!

Peru

BOULDERING
The Cemetery 
We came to Pitumarca for the limestone cliffs and bolting/climbing potential but it just so happens that there is a mini boulder field 10min drive out of town (around 30 boulders). The beautiful sector winds along a river and a grassy trail. The rock is Basalt and solid in most places. Here is our (ongoing) tick-list from The Cemetery;
  • Deja vu V5 (FA by Josh and Cha) Pitumarca, Peru - J, C
Trail/river side arete that hangs over the trail and is about 3 meters tall. Simple and fun movement with mini compression to a juggy top. Deja vu is the name becuse it reminds us of "White Castle" V9 in Serbia!
  • Beep Beep V9 / FA by Cha (Found by Rodrigo)
Short and powerful beginning. A knee scum to a tiny slot that one must match. Cha made quick work of this as Josh had to find "fat finger" beta for the slot match. ;)
  • Remember that time we went to Cusco and ended up at the French Embassy in Lima V8 / FA by Josh
Real long name for a 3 move dyno boulder! But it is so mega! Pure bouldering again. Weird ass mantel press (get flexible) to some thunder-clings and an all points off dyno to the lip! Very enjoyable bloc.
  • Cusco Bandido V11 / FA by Josh (Found by Rodrigo)
A mega 18 move line screaming out of a cave with a inverted knee bar start, pinch-compression midway up and a hard V8 tech-finish! Going back asap!
  • Headstone - Project V9/10ish
Tall boy but beautiful bloc and movement - compression to tough top out. I tried and took some weird falls because of lack of pads and a shitty boulder below. Also, human bones are everywhere...no lie. Its weird.
  • Life Bouy V3 / FA by Cha
Cha found this line when she peaked around the bloc looking up the river. She noticed a flat rock under a tall, vertical face. Yes. We built a mini log bridge and she cleaned up the beautiful line with the rock raft holder her pad below!
  • Water Slide V4 / FA by Cha
Same story as above but a bit harder and bit more "water landing" than padded rock! 
  • Political Party V2 / FA by Josh and Crew
In the same sector as Life Bouy and other trail side blocs, this orange face (with a Peruvian political symbol painted on it) jumos out through the bushes. It traverses leftwards on huge ledges for hands and feet climbing about 8-10 moves until a flat top out! Beautiful warm-up. Possibly my favorite easy line i've put up.
  • Better with a Burger V7 / FA by Josh
It certainly would be but harder.  Once I topped out "Political party" i walked over to this line and cleaned it up. Weird landing with cool off balance moves. A technical line that isn't that good but it's worth it once you top out PParty.
  • The Campus V10 / FA by Josh
THE BEST LINE EVER! Perfect crimps on an 15deg overhanging wall with campus moves to start and a jump to the lip. Ending with a tall technical line!
  • The Runway V3 / FA by Cha
Cha cleaned this line on the back side of the Campus and it's tall, slabby and wonderful!
ROUTES
  • Lili 7b - / Equipped & FA by Cha
12 Bolts, 25 meters, big moves on good holds
  • Afternoon Delightning 7b+ / Equipped & FA by Josh
  12 Bolts, 20meters, layback the flake and get shoulder pumped!
  • Mr. Potato Head 7b+ / Equipped & FA by Josh
  9 Bolts, 20 meters, traverse the overhanging flat ledge to a easy boulder problem
  • Frozen 7c+ / Equipped & FA by Cha
9 Bolts, 20 meters, beautiful incut holds, resistance climbing. 
  • Mrs. Potato Head 8a / Equipped & FA by Josh
9 Bolts, 20 meters, direct line into Mr. Potato Head, easyish climbing to a dynamic V8
  • Who's yo mama 8a / Equipped & FA by Josh
9 Bolts, 20 meters, the shorter easier version of (My mama's a llama). Easy tufa climbing mixed with hard moves and rests.
  • Hawkins Lab 8a+ / Equipped and FA by Josh
13 bolts, 30+ meters. 75 moves, 3 sections of the route split by 2 no-hand rests. The first section being the easiest, second section being a 19 move long V9 (hardest sections) and the third being a 35 move pumpy section on beautiful solid rock made of tufas, crimps and pockets! It's beautiful! (I was listening to the "Stranger Things" sound track for hours while cleaning this line for hours - hence the name).
  • My mama's a llama 8b+ / Equipped & FA by Josh
13 Bolts. 30 meters, the hardest on the cliff with a wild v9 boulder problem on slotted edges and pockets! Harry Potter's lighting bolt is the crux hold!

Line we bolted bu didn't send in Pitumarca;
  • On the Sheep Prow- Reach for the sheep 8c
  • On the Sheep Prow - Power drop 8c/+?
  • On the Windy Wall - Chas line on the far right (hard af)

South Africa

We went to Rocklands just for climbing - no development. But, we went to a very newly developed sectore call "The Realm" and we were inspired by a few lines. Good friend Jon Glassberg and I scrubbed up to lines on the same bloc as "Eye of Sauron" and gave them not a cool names.
  • Brown Eye V9 Josh L
  • Black Eye V9 Jon G

Madagascar

Again, we're here for not much development but there just so happens to be A LOT OF REALLY GOOD BLOCS below the massifs. So we've been slowly plucking some of our favorites out along with a new friend and pysched dude, Aiden from Scotland. I think we have about 25+ blocs up and scrubbed. Below are the ones Cha and I have developed, we hope to combined the efforts and create a mini topo for others to enjoy a short walk to nice blocs.

THE RIVER BED ZONE
Just a 15min walk from the camp (all downhill) is a riverbed with a slow water flow. We found a nice cluster of blocs here and started scrubbing. 
  • ​King Julian V8 / FA by Charlotte and Josh
A super cool line! One of our favorites we've put up dring out trip. Slices in the rock create some pretty good holds, loads of moves and over a nice part of the river. There is a harder entry and a harder exit to this line, both being HARD double digits.
  • Poisonous Tree Squeeze V8 / FA bu Josh
Same bloc, compression line to knob topout.
  • Stage 3 V5 / FA by Cha and Josh
Crimpy start with bad feet. No hand top out!
  • River Warm up V2 / FA Cha
I boulder hanging over a little puddle in the river. Follows a vertical crack to a hard top out.
  • World Cups of water
A weird one. Bunchy and unlikely...but a left hand stab to a cool edge as the right hand comes off. Feet stay on!

Nepal

In Nepal