Bunches in DDS

The stage of selection took place in the net. The pair has to show the best time of passing the barrier strip which contained different hanging objects difficult to hold out on. Some participants suffered from the last metal pipe which was dangling but-and-ben, Valera's knee and Rustam's jaw was beaten by it… But as a result there were no physical and moral losses. Valera Vorobiev and Danya Kozmin got the best time. We were the second. So Rustam and me were the second to choose the route in qualification. But before that Rustam has already choosen the first route, so we gathered the equipment specially for this route. I enjoyed it because there was a crack similar to Stolby climbing. It looked like Moscowers were not familiar with this climbing style because nobody except us could climb it. There were screwed holds inside, it could be more difficult without them. But in reality it was possible to climb all the crack as it was (Oleg Chereshnev, 17.12.2005) further>>

Oleg put the holds on 6b+ in such a high speed that Leha and me were puzzled if the holds were put chaotically or some scheme was followed. Soon we understood the scheme when we tried to test a route. 7b (the third one) was created slowly and seriously. Then it was tested step by step and was changed a little bit. The fourth one (7n?) has become a real epic. It was favoured with flash of Oleg. Two routes of 6a grade were done immediately. We climbed them and thought that the participants will enjoy to start anf finish the competitions with the filling that they are extremely cool :) There was the only question: will the finalists expand equally ot not? Hereon we said goodbye to each other till Sunday (tbr, 21.09.2005) further>>