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Meet report: Big wall training meet at Waterval Boven, 9-10 February 2013

Meet report: Big wall training meet at Waterval Boven, 9-10 February 2013

By: Andrew Porter

On 9 February, 10 climbers got together at Waterval Boven for a slightly different mission. Instead of joining the masses to go sport climbing, we pulled out a ton of big wall climbing gear. The idea behind the MCSA meet was to provide some training and to gain practical knowledge of some of the skills needed to climb a big wall. For the purposes of the exercise, a big wall meant that you will spend a night on the wall and need to haul your gear up with you.

Its not every day you have 3 generations of Climbers together, but thats just what happend on the last Sentinal meet. Three generations of the Kiefer Family made it to the top of Sentinal and are all smiles to prove it.