Morning All,
I have a long term dream of climbing some of the easier big walls in Yosemite, perhaps starting with regular north west face of half dome, then moving on to other stuff but lets not get ahead of myself.
Being based in Suffolk most of my climbing is indoors, so I spend a lot of time bouldering or leading. And try to get out as much as possible, and within the last year have bouldered v8, sport climbed 7b and started trad climbing around E1 (Trad climbing is the newest discipline to me, so should hopefully continue to progress).
So other than conituning to travel to wales, lakes or peaks to pratice on real rock and expose myself to harder trad climbs. Is there any particular things I should be focusing on, I understand that being able to climb 5.12 uk equivalent E6ish in no way directly translates to being able to climb 5.12 on half dome, however surely I can practice either certain types of climbs? certain Locations? Climbs that are heavily exposed? That may help.
Also at the same time as developing my ability to actually climb and not get scared, I would like to learn the AID side of things so that I could get out of sticky situations or climb the aid variations of the classics ie the 5.9 c1 RNWF. This question is abit more open ended, but how should I start learning and practicing this, books? locations to learn? maybe courses dunno?
Thanks Guys and Girls