What's with all this rain? Just got an e-mail from Steve (McClure) saying it's been the same in England. Man, it's the first time in years that I decided to stay home in september and give some of the new crags and pojects a chance. But if youre not into dry-tooling, cayaking or pisswet holds it has'nt looked that good. Ok, so what's been good then? Well, when I just got home from Austria we actually had 2 weeks of REAL summer. A bit hot for the hardest of granit climbs but what the heck, I could'nt really coplain. Then when the rain came in we had 2 weeks of concerts in Stockholm during the "Vox Pacis" (www.voxpacis.com, I really recomend you to check it out, it's too complicated to explain here+you can choose from a bunch of different languages). For the first time in over 6 months it was time to train indoors -and I needed it!

Concert at the city hall, this is where the Noble dinner is held.

Gig at Medelhavsmuséet, Stockholm with Ismail, Said, myself, Mostafa representing Morocco and presenting the art of gnawamusic.

Playing the guinbri (or zintir or hajhouj...)

But of course it didn't rain every day. I've been out at every time there has been a gap between the showers. Mostly at Granitgrottan witch hosts some of the longest and steepest climbs in sweden and in the future maybe also the hardest. But don't forget, there is easier stuff too. We also rediscovered a place called Eriksbergs that allready had some bolted lines, but still projects. I finished those first and now the drill is on, creating a totally new area with at least 30 classic routes comming up. Please Erwan, send some more bolts!

Drilling the future classic "Astrospjutet" at Eriksberg, a very beautiful aret but still havet tried to climb it.

On the FA of "Elefantmannen", 8b, Granitgrottan. photo: Jesper Östlund/www.thinline.se

So I just hope the weather will be a little more stable so we can get to work with the really hard ones. Meanwhile I'll just have to dig beeing home. Get every chance to get out and climb, spend the time indoors playing music -or both!

Playing with legendary Christian Falk, Peak Performance, Stockholm, indoors...

Out in the wilderness with Micke and Said. Slottskogen, Gothenburg.