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Calshot Workshop and Competition
April 2010

This was a great weekend of workshops and a competition on the Saturday. Even though it coincided with the warmest day of the year, a good number of climbers turned up to take part and the atmosphere was fantastic.

Competition winners are as follows:

Male:
1st Terry Finlay
2nd John Hogan
3rd David White

Female:
1st Lisa Paling
2nd Rachel Nicholls-Lee
3rd Kirsty Edgar

Junior:
1st Helen Horsell
2nd Holly Sutton

Figure of 4 comp - spot prize:
Male Terry Finlay
Female Lisa Paling


Event T-shirts were provided for all competitors




Route-setting on the wall was made easier by using a cherry-picker for rigging some of the heavier obstacles, such as chains, wood, rings and tyres.




A double Stein-pull on one of the bouldering problems.




An unconventional, yet effective, solution to one of the problems!




Female winner Lisa Paling on the swinging log problem. This eventually led to 4 rings and 2 long chains, all on outrageously overhanging terrain!




Lisa again, this time on the ladder problem.




The lonelyness of the long-distance drytooler!





The start of the swinging logs problem.




Lisa winning the Fig 4 competition.




Whoops.............




From left: Pete, a startled-looking male winner Terry Finlay, female winner Lisa Paling, junior winner Helen Horsell and climbing wall manager Jon Wilson.