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2nd ascent of Off the wagon by Hojer

© Hojer coll.
Jan Hojer  © Hojer coll.
Jan Hojer
© Hojer coll.

As predicted, it didn't take long until Nalle Hukkataival's Off the wagon, at Valle Bavona, got a second ascent, and it wasn't surprising that Jan Hojer was the man who did it.

In fact, Jan had sort of expected to make the first ascent, but Nalle beat him to it:

I actually thought that I would make the FA of the Wagon project. I tried it for 10 min after I sent Momentum and it felt pretty doable.... But Nalle sent it the following day

Again, Jan made quick work of a problem suggested to be 8C (but extremely difficult to put a grade on as it only has two moves which both are very unusual) thinking 8B+ is perhaps more appropriate. The problem definitely need more repeats for the grade to settle.

It would be interesting to see Jan put up some problems on his own, but unfortunately I probably won't have time to try new projects since I'm leaving in a couple of days and there's so much left to do! I didn't even find the time yet to climb in Chironico...

Well, jan is young and will have plenty of time to climb futuristic new problems in the future.


Jan Hojer is sponsored by: Mammut and Chimpanzodrome


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