Big day for Karoline Sinnhuber: 8A, 8A+ and 8B

Karoline Sinnhuber has during one busy day in Zillertal sent Mother Firestarter (8A), No lazy tendons (8A+) and The Restless mind (8B), Insta video. (c) Igor Depoorter

Can you tell us more about that productive day?
The Weather forecast didn’t look that great, as we heard it was raining in the morning in the Zillertal. We still decided to risk it and first went to the boulder „No lazy tendons“, where I had already spent 2 sessions and fell super close in the 2nd session. Surprisingly, the bloc was super dry and after a few warm-up tries I knew that this one would definitely be possible today. It’s quite an unknown river bloc where there is basically only this boulder. It climbs super well and it took me one session to figure out all the Moves because they are super techy (at least for me).

As I had still some unfinished business from 2 days ago in the other valley, we drove over. It was raining quite a lot over there. We were sitting in the car „Should we go up, or should we train in the gym?“ - „Let’s risk it and hike up!“. Good decision, as the bloc was dry and only the top out wet. „Restless mind“ is the lower start to „Dark Dog“, which adds 4 tensiony moves into the stand start. I struggled a lot with doing the first move of the stand, when coming in from the sit. Topping out on the wet boulder added definitely some spice.

The last one on the list was „Mother Firestarter“, which shredded my pinky already twice due to a super sharp crimpy thing. This boulder is unique. First, a super fancy cross move and then a hard shoulder move with a super small high feet box. Imo it could also be 8A+, but this one is my anti-style, so idk. As I can’t do the small box movement with tape on the pinky, I decided to put it off, knowing this is probably my one and only try with my semi-shredded pinky. And wow. I managed to wander up with my feet, next to my Hand; managed to match the shoulder somehow and to add the last move. What a day. Super psyched for some more bouldering days outside now!