Jake Croft

Like a mini black eagle, for the people!

No way 8A, did the stand then 2nd go from start. Dope boulder though and the right heel hook beta for the first move is like shoshaloza for the weak. Good end to a day of trials and cowardice

Some enjoy the experience of figuring out the beta for themselves but I prefer to have Will pound me with the super soaker. He is the brains, I am the body. Jump to the jug from the kneebar? Hell ya I'll do that no questions asked, swooooop. First flash of the grade 👉👌

Couldn't do it in 2016, became obsessed, sent simulators of it countless times and came prepared. Took 3 tries on the first morning of the trip, such an amazing feeling. Also yes, I'm logging it as 8A+ even though it's easy I don't give a damn Scott Noy and your new book full of downgraded classics. I still own the old book and I'll take my vacation grades thank you very much 🤠

After a rainstorm!

Maybe FA, maybe not

Would like to take the 7c flash, but... Soooooft

Worlds hardest bulge

Cool, hard

Wrong date. 2nd ascent in the rain! Nice one Daniel.

Wrong date

Surely only 7B+ if you top it out. Top out is the crux. I did not top out

3rd go, easy but nice. Or maybe I climbed an easier variation? Heel toe in big jug, big cross right, left to the nice slopey jug

Beautiful line by the sea, nice crimping. Jumped to lip from match on the sidepull

No warmup, started from stacked pad on obvious hold. Very easy this way but siiiiiiiiick line absolutely worth climbing. Almost blew the easy topout tho...

So sick, double dyno!

3rd try

2nd go

2nd go. Wrong date. Sometime in march

Wrong date, did it sometime this month

Beauty

Cool heel hook. Sent during a micro snow hail storm, top a bit wet

Snow ascent

Such a good line! Night send

thought it was sandbagged but then it turns out that's cause it's a lot harder when it's humid and 20 degrees than when it's dry and 1 degree. sick problem! good night sesh!

Better than voodoo I thought! from the stand then from the low, which was a real desperate mantle that time...

1st go (already flashed stand). Adds some heinous shitty moves to a good problem!

Such a good boulder. squeezing, pinches, slopers, beautiful pink stone. felt really hard for 7C to me until I discovered the ~soft choss~ beta

felt pretty easy, I thought it was a 6B so I warmed up on it and it felt 6B

hard for me, took a lot more tries than the rest of the 7A's I rampaged today

hard start, nice holds. went quick

2nd go soft. ahgggg blew the flash like an idiot, let my foot slip!

Cool jump! 3rd go

Sweet highball!

Sick! Had my eyes on this one for awhile, comprises everything I love. Worked out the beta last weekend with one pad, returned this weekend with two despite high chances of getting wet. Sometimes weather optimism pays off! Good to finally send something hard again... never sport climbing again

Beautiful boulder, perfection! Kinda funny it's basically in someone's backyard... returned for night swoopage with Jon, got lucky and it was dry despite rain earlier in the day

Pristine slab. Couldn't do it in the summer haha! Returned when it wasn't 30 degrees and found I could do it without much trouble!

Ending the day with a flash! Super easy compared to glenn som van... topped out to view of the sun setting over a golden ocean. Beautiful

Beautiful

Hard! Sweet wide compression! Perfect black stone... was giving me trouble then rested, pulled on from bottom and did the end moves for the first time. bam

Warmup, gave me a bit of trouble. Cold and windy!

Nice mini hop

beautiful sloper rail, so nice!!!

2nd go

sitstart takes away stars. first go soft! before the back pain returned...

What a session, Adam only brought one pad to midnight molndal, we got lost trying to find korridorren, then the topout to this was damp and covered in leaves and I almost ate it completely sideways off the top....

Wrong date

kneebars and squeezing, no bullshit crimps! Good night sesh with martin, andrea, and jocke

So good!!! Perfect crimps on a beautiful boulder. Feels alpine! Kinda easy

Fun! End of the day jaunt

One of the strangest moves I've done, heinous gaston bumping while balancing on my left palm. In a lot of pain at this point of the day.

So tired, and having weird old person back pain.... but managed to send the rig anyways. My body is becoming useless

Just had to get the good part of the crimp for it to go... This problem is rad!!!

2nd go. Nice, squeezy!

Finally stopped punting! And it felt easy today too haha... good end to an "artificial daytime" session with Adam and Ylva

nubbins and slopes

One hard move! Left heel hook. Grabbed the hold with 1 finger and crawled my way up on the 100th try

Lol, actually fun moves despite the lowness. Good session with Patrik och Adam

2nd go. Sick slopers!!!

Little spooky, kinda dabbed the tree on the topout too... Feelin weak today

Good one! Painful right crimp with the mangled finger... And not an easy warmup...

Nice crimps. One of the only dry things in this whole damn place! Good to be bouldering again

3rd go? felt pretty easy. A good nubbin' problem. session started out real good today and 15 minutes later all my power was gone. Still got in climbing after the rain though! The haters said it would be wet

Love roofs. One and done

Nice crimps, cool moves, kinda sketch on the top out. good to be bouldering again

Kinda hard for an easy problem

Nice one!

Date unknown

I dont remember doing a dyno this big on 5+ since.... well ever haha!

Nice stone

Kinda hard for the grade, or very hot out

Woke up sick today, bleh. Nice time though, a little sunburnt but good swim in the ocean!

called "torped" on gbo bouldering. Kinda crappy start holds, fun little hop to lip!

Beautiful rock, fun moves! Nice line. So damn sweaty...

Not too much to say about this one

Fuck that topout when your alone with one pad... way harder than it looks for some reason. Finally sucked it up and did it. Nice rock!!!

Fucking sweet. such a good problem, right next to the sea.... after falling trying to top it out alone over one small pad 3 times another crew rolled in and I was able to muster the confidence for the heinous topout. Also who knew a ferry was an aircraft carrier for cars? Not I

slippy slappy slopes

first boulder on hönö!

crimpy. sweet jump to lip though! don't think the 1 pad was under me...

So good! surprise send

Perfect boulder. First go of the day. Felt surprisingly easy...

Can't believe how much the jug flexed under my weight. Also sooooooft

2nd go. Fuck!!! so close to flash

Sweet! crimp enduro

Great problem! Consolation send after my legs were too tired for summer girl. Pretty solid day! For a trad climbing trip I've sent a surprising number of hard boulders....

The hardest part about this one is figuring out which line is which from the shitty topos...

Nice one! rest day from the crack climbing...

End of the day, goddamn was I tired

summer heat eeeewww. my beta was trash too. this place is dooooope!

No pad ascent after trad climbing. Last move is a bit tricky. Neat!

Nice one! Night send

Psyched! Perfect boulder. Hot day, maybe 23 C. Punted off the last move a bunch after making Christopher listen to excuses then managed to put it down by not looking at the hold you jump to at the end beforehand and just going for it. Dope. Off to Göteborg!

Psyched! jetlagged, no sleep, still sore from climbing 36 hours ago in Tucson but it went down in my first 6 hours of being in stockholm. Got super close on freak gasoline after so not a bad way to start the trip

according to Christopher the 2nd most contrived line in stockholm

Happy that the paths cleared and I could bike here again before leaving Sweden! Really nice slopers on this one. Felt hard my first two sessions but came together and went down pretty easily on the third one, making it hard to grade correctly

Rocklands reference? One of the best I've done in Uppsala! Rad! No snow on top either which was nice. 2nd go, blew the flash :'(

Fucking heinous first move. Feels pretty cool though. Way harder than any other 7A i've done in focksta, and felt harder than many 7Bs as well...

Perfection. one of the best boulders around.

Classic. Feeling so out of it and somehow fell off to the right and missed the pads on my first go, then did it 2nd

So good. tall black slab with perfect landing, whats to fear? Stephen took a fun sideways digger then sent it next go like a boss

Perfect boulder problem. 3rd day on, didnt think it would go and gave up then a massage from James gave me power and it went down easy

Loved this one. Nighttime damp highball, kinda cut feet at the end like a hero. or at least thats how it felt. probably just looked like a sketchball

Night send, fucking exhausted

painful. but kinda cool

Nice one! crimp jumpin!

wow, thrutch fest. kinda embarassing

haha love it!

Sooooft 2nd go. cool feature though, wish it was bigger.

Awesome last move lockoff standing up on heel. Crimpin!

Kindof a turd

cool rock. slickfoot

Pure line, Classique! Kinda feel like a badass mofo hanging off the top jug

5 man train!

Honestly not sure if we did the right line, kindof a mess of many options and the german book was hard to read

Spooky night send. stepped in the wetness before topping out :0

Night send, figured out the beta for the crew cause we was flailin on da start

semi hand jam, heel hook, crimping, nice nice. Took more trying than expected though

Left hand crimp, right hand jug. 2nd go yo

Unnecessary jump beta

Dry!

Struggle bus for some reason. RAIN RAIN RAIN, well at least this was dry!

Fridge compression in fridgelike temperatures

shenanigans. Luke right hammy hurt so he climbed it feet first

Better ending than super nova. Didn't want to stop climbing for the day, but too tired to keep trying neverending pt 2. Sooooooft

Last day best day! Didn't know if the conditions or the finicky heel hook would allow, but super psyched to finish this one on the last day of the trip. Boosh!

Wet wet wet

:)

One of the best of the grade, so sick. Had to dry this sopping thing after the rain, but worth it

Not gonna lie I thought I was slipping off the top and was (not so?) secretly a bit freaked out. Mega!

Techy techy classic... :)

Last problem of the first day in magic. Felt soft, but its totally my style so probably solid. Too bad its a drop off

So psyched! All that I love. Followed the flash train behind conductor Luke

A bit spooky but lots of pads! It was nice to see Derw fall off the last move and survive to know I could really go for it. Favorite from the trip maybe? 2nd try

First boulder in magic!!!

One of those sessions where everyone sends :) After falling off the end 3 times in the rain last time I was sure it would go down but not super rested this time and it was definitely a fight. Maybe soft for 8A or maybe just my style?

Thought it would go down quick but the final 6B move bucked me off more times than I'd like to admit... kinda hard after all that climbing! Thought the movement flowed real nicely on this one. Best climb at the sector in my opinion

Jumped off instead of topping out first time. A bit mossy to commit to the easy top out with no spotter or pad for the bad landing

Tired, end of day. not a bad little low ball

Harder then I expected, should have put on climbing shoes

Psyched to find and clean a nice one within biking distance of my house!

3rd day on tired... Very nice problem in a cool hallway though :)

Kinda scary fall potential, but good problem

Night sesh send. Tired at the end of the day

Tried it a bit on a tired day, came back and put it down first go of the day. Nice long problem, good drop knee move. Pretty fu for a traverse!

Nice long problem. Headlamp flash, despite bad beta and exhaustion!

Nice blocky pinches, cool down send by headlamp

Sweet movement. Quickly put it together to punting on one of the final bumps, realized I was going to the wrong part of the hold, punted once more, then put it down by headlamp. Big span! Maybe 7C?

Really close on the flash, then quick negative progress after rapid fire attempts, then put it together. Nice one!

Perfect angle on right arete

good warm up

Nice one! Big span. Very tired, and had to fight for the mantle. Mantles are hard.

couldn't catch the sloper at the end until I found a higher foot. nice one!

2nd try

Fun move! jump beta!

Good block on nice rock!

End of the third day on.... After punting earlier in the morning we checked out this wall, and i managed to grunt my way up this one. Exhausted, felt like 7B maybe, but based on how tired I was it has to be easier than that... Good line though!

Nice compression block, the business is all in the first move. First one down in Västervik!

Such a good bloc! Put it down 2nd go then started work on it's big brother...

Felt easier than the left exit I thought

Felt harder than the other one?

Yes I rated it two stars, yes i unnecessarily shoved my hole body inside, yes I did it twice in a row, fight me

So close on the flash! Oh well, good problem. Sweaty day

Good problem, tricky matching the crimps with my chubby fingers. The holds were also wet and greasy, like sharp granite hamburgers. What a sexy granite bloc!

Love a good compression problem, especially if it's a short bike ride from my dorm room!

actually a really cool move

I like this one

First hard boulder in Sweden! My toe hooks are definitely stronger than my fingers. Good problem but scraped up my forearms and legs on it. The release move from the pinch is nice. Would have liked more than one pad...

haha

Maybe I topped out too early? Didn't feel too hard

Cool cool lowball fun

Fint problem!

The ending tricked me on flash attempt. fool!

good warm up. I like this one

Dope easy highballs, what's not to love

I toe hooked the shit out of it. Fine problem!

Technical, beautiful... hell yeah. Thankful for the flat landing, because it was a no pad send!

So good I had to do it twice :) literally a refrigerator

Felt about the same difficulty as deer hunter, also on the no pad circuit

Good one for a no pad session :)

Nice for a low ball. Crashed Jon and Katrin's session, thanks guys

Nice arete. ran 3 laps on it for funsies

Can't remember the date. Sent before watching star wars with my family

Not stemming is dumb. sweet boulder. Put a random date in... couple years ago