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August 11, 2014

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Girls Trip Europe: Las Motivadas

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Getting to Magic Wood from Milan Malpensa airport

The trip to Magic Wood got off to a bit of a slow start, as my friend’s flight was delayed by a day, which meant that the plan of meeting at Milan Malpensa airport and then driving through together wasn’t going to work. So on Saturday I flew into Milan and then came through to Magic Wood by train/bus on my own which was surprisingly easy. Actually, it’s not surprising really – western European public transport is great, if not particularly cheap. The route was as follows: Train from Milan Malpensa to Bellinzona From Terminal 1, buy a train ticket to Bellinzona (€14.50). Then, while you wait for the train, visit the Carrefour in Terminal 1 where you can stock up on snacks for the day of travelling ahead of you. Once on the train, you actually need to change to another train at Cadenazzo even though the train you originally got on gives Bellinzona as its final destination. At Cadenazzo go to Platform 3 for the final leg to Bellinzona, which only another 20 minutes or so

A quick update from Font

I'm writing this with tired arms and fingers, which are usually markers of a good weekend passed. Certainly true today as we head back from Fontainebleau on the BoulderBus. And if you are a southern UK boulderer and don't know about this service, then you're missing out an amazing option for a sneaky weekend away. Since my last update climbing overall has been going well, although training itself recently has felt somewhat mixed. I feel like I've been putting in the work, but something has just been a bit off and sessions have felt harder than expected or riddled with small errors like feet blowing off when they really shouldn't. What has kept the motivation high has been the small wins. First through the gate was an easy send of Insatiable (7b+) in Cheddar Gorge a few weekends back. It's a short route with a crux that involves laybacks up a crack into a final long, balancy move off of poor feet to a jug. I've never before hit the start of the seaso

The Sheltering Sky

Death is always on the way, but the fact that you don't know when it will arrive seems to take away from the finiteness of life. It is that terrible precision that we hate so much. But because we don't know, we get to think of life as an inexhaustible well. Yet everything happens only a certain number of times, and a very small number really. How many more times will you remember a certain afternoon of your childhood, some afternoon that's so deeply a part of your being that you can't even conceive of your life without it? Perhaps 4 or 5 more times. Perhaps not even. How many more times will you watch the full moon rise. Perhaps 20. And yet it all seems limitless.

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