Photo Credit @grace.t.s.p

Pinches, love them or hate them, are becoming increasingly common with the new-school style volumes indoors, or the modern style tufa routes in Spain or Greece. Coming in all different shapes, sizes and orientations, from narrow flowstone ripples where you’re barely pinching anything at all, to wide grit slopers

One of the interesting things about being able to return to bouldering areas year on year, is the ability to see change. Change in the climbing environment. Change in the boulders. Change in the community, and of course change in yourself. For me, seeing the changes in myself, and the climbing areas often provide the most reflective moments of any trip. Ultimately this is what keeps me coming back