News & Blog - January 2010
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Thu 28th Jan 10 ShAFF Trailer On-line
We're very excited to have just uploaded the new 2010 ShAFF Trailer. Edited by none other than master film maker Alastair Lee of Posing Productions, it is essentially a 2 minute film comprising short clips from many of the films that will be shown at ShAFF 2010, set to music. Very watchable we think. Please feel free to use the trailer on your own website or to pass the link on to anybody who you think would enjoy it.
Wed 27th Jan 10 ShAFF Poster - An Image With A Story
The ShAFF 2010 Poster and Flier has just been uploaded to the ShAFF website here. Please feel free to download it and use it to help promote the festival. Or let us know your address and we will send you some if you can put them up for us. It was designed by Hammer Design, sponsors of this year's festival.
We were very pleased to be able to use this year's image, one with a story behind it, and one that encapsulates the theme of an adventure film festival better than any other. It is a shot by French photographer and climber Tony Lamiche who set about to attempt to capture, in a single frame, 6 extreme sports: rock climbing, ice climbing, skiing, snowboarding, paragliding and BASE jumping! We're showing a great action-packed short film at the festival this year called MedeO, which documents the process and choreography Tony went through to achieve this remarkable shot. He very kindly agreed to let us use it for our promotional material.
Tue 26th Jan 10 ShAFF Tickets On Sale
Thu 21st Jan 10 The Snow!
I'll never tire of winters like the one we've just had / are just having (he says, crossing his fingers for another cold snap!).
My memories of childhood are of sledging every year, days off school, walking up the River Glaslyn on the ice, my Dad's ice axe in hand, hacking away out in the middle of the river. It was like a blast from the past, the cold weather we've just had. I completely forgot about climbing for a whole month. Every spare minute (which tended to be during the hours of darkness so head torches were essential) was spent walking, sledging, running, jumping and scrambling in the white stuff.
Perhaps fittingly, the best was saved until last. After an epic run up to Higgar Tor a week ago last Saturday, when I spied a very, very wintry looking Stanage Edge, a plan was hatched to get ourselves up there. The plan soon snowballed (excuse the pun!), and on Thursday night at 6.45pm, 11 of us convened at The Sportsman's Pack in Hathersage, ditched the cars in an icy car park, and trudged up School Lane to the Edge (actually I cadged a lift in Marty's 4X4 part of the way as a farmer had ‘cleared' the road to his drive way). The walk was epic in itself, thigh deep snow and no tracks whatsoever! Granted, it had snowed the previous day, but no sign of people at all? It amazes me that with Sheffield so close, and a massive number of people psyched for the great outdoors, that more people don't venture out when we get snow, especially on this scale.
We finally arrived home at around 1 in the morning, exhausted, already seriously aching, and happy beyond words. Steve even opted to voluntarily miss the last train out of Hathersage and doss over for an extra couple of hours at the crag. Oh what fun! Tool-less winter ascents by the dozen, bum-slide descents, holes in cornices, soloing VS's in big boots and big gloves. One of the guys out with us took some awesome pics (see above). See for yourself.
Check out this photo posted on UKClimbing of somebody snowboarding at Burbage North a few days previously.
My only regret is that we didn’t manage to make it out in the daytime on a sunny day. That would have been a photogenic session!
I'll leave you with one final image (in case you haven't already seen it) from the BBC:
Thu 21st Jan 10 ShAFF Poster Online and Available
Not much news of late. Been too busy working behind the scenes on ShAFF 2010. Expect a lot more news on that front over the coming weeks. Today we uploaded the ShAFF poster to the website. Feel free to download it and spread the word.
You can download it here.
It was designed by 2010 ShAFF sponsors Hammer Design.
