Following on from the this is what climbing is about time for a mere mortals climbing photo/video thread. Only rules are you had to be there –

2012-07-28 03.15.30 by Mike Smith 79, on Flickr – A return to climbing Mt Arrapeles

2012-07-29 02.27.42 by Mike Smith 79, on Flickr

A few of my fave pics from over the years..

Penon, Costa Blanca..

Rivelin Needle Counterbalance Descent..

Stanage:

and finally, Portland..

Taken by myself a friend on the crux of a route somewhere near kendal I think, excuse the watermark, this was done when i thought putting a watermark on a picture made you a better photographer!

Scotland winter 2011 cairngorms

Sardinia multi pitch, I’m right up the top somewhere, 3 pairs of us climbing it together. Brilliant place!

A couple more
Pembroke – One of my all time favourite places and some of my most enjoyable routes. Excuse the rope from above it wasn’t my turn to lead this time.

Peak Grit – Where I started and where I always want to return to

Chamonix Bouldering, ironic day off messing round on boulders younger, leaner and stronger

Excellent. Sometimes wish I’d continued taking climbing more serious but beer won.

Lovely beer

Time to dig out the scanner for some pics on Gogarth. I’m still twitching 15 years later… From UKC “On the main crags there is little in the lower grades, and a degree of composure is required to deal with the infamous Gogarth ‘grip’ factor.”

B.A.Nana where is the ridge?
dmw536 great expression on the first one
Hoister High Neb Buttress? One of my stanage favs

cider soak by ianvincent, on Flickr

One for the traditionalists:

img025 by ianvincent, on Flickr

Some Gothenburg rock:

Taken a few years ago before a groundfall and children resulted in a switch to cycling

Just a couple from me for now need to sort through.

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Tower Gully by passtherizla, on Flickr[/img]

Scotland.

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Argentierre

Ardnamurchan

Glen Nevis

Croatia

Back in the day…

scarlet runner.jpg by John Clinch, on Flickr

Scarlet Runner

Mau Mau.jpg by John Clinch, on Flickr

Mau Mau

More recently…

christamasjacksquare by John Clinch, on Flickr

Christmas Curry

IMG_0052.jpg by John Clinch, on Flickr

Red Wall

No I’m not getting younger. The second 2 are my son

mikewsmith – yep, High Neb Buttress.

All these photos are making me want to get out and climb..weather permitting, I’m hoping to make a trip to Tryfan next weekend. Very excited.

One of me on Gargoyle Flake at Bamford:

A friend styling his way up the rogue pitch of Point Five Gully:

The effect of Torridonian Sandstone on one’s hands:

@ampthill the photo of you on the Mau Mau… I took that one! Those were the days etc. etc.

A couple of me, the Orion Face in ’93 or ’94 maybe?

Something or other at my local crag (Cheddar) last year:

Red Wall Porthclais again (not me climbing this time!):

2008 on Buchaille Etive More (spelling may be wrong) top of Curved Ridge

Snow Plod to The Top by Hamster, on Flickr

Somewhere I have a pic taken down the Devils slide, I’ll see if I can dig it out tonight.

Nice thread – don’t have any to contribute really.

Point Five Gully pic is a cracker!

elliptic

I wondered if you’d see that photo

snap on Red Wall as well

I did some VS s last summer. My son was dead keen then I got a frozen shoulder. The joys of old age.

Are you in contact with any other CUMC. I’ve even lost contact with Alistair now

Cruachan Horseshoe in Winter (a walk more than a climb, we got a rope out for one tricky decent, but it was a glorious day…)

Top of west Gully on Beinn Udlaidh

One of the Ice falls which forms in a good winter just across from the CIC hut, make a nice 1 pitch intro to a route on the carn Dearg buttress (or elsewhere in Corie na Ciste)

@ampthill Yep it catches up with you, I had a long spell off with bad shoulders, my rotator cuffs are pretty tattered. Holding up again now so long as I’m careful.

I see Kate P. every now and again, and very loosely in touch with some of the SJC lot. I should really try and get hold of Rick when I’m in Switzerland this summer…

Another one of Udlaidh, the day I did Captain Hook (ice curtain up the centre) with a couple of guys on QVS to the left:

Red wall is cropping up a lot 🙂

Sunshine’s overrated. It’s all grotty quarries and fingery edges for me these days…

Low traverse from up high, Harmer’s Wood


Blurry picture of Andy Popp, FA At The Drive By, F7a

Not me but this was on the Climbing Lovers facebook page the other day:

Me in Font:

t’Missus in Font:

Me on t’Slate:

Which reminds me… I do like climbing, I should start climbing again 🙂

The picture of the guy on a Via ferrata with the bike above is pretty hardcore – I’d want a harness and lanyards if I was carrying a bike, clip the bike in separately though.

alfabus

which route on slate?

cheers elleptic

Ps does that mean you’ve got a contact for Harry and LisA

Nope, sorry.

@ampthill – I think that was just Seamstress, nice and easy with plenty of opportunity for photos 🙂 I never seem to have photos of hard stuff, I guess I’m normally too gripped to care at the time!

Dave

Soloing down at Sennen (not me, I’d just topped out and was looking at another mid-week soloist!)

P3230070 by neil.d.cox, on Flickr

Descent from the Leaning Tower, Yosemite

l5 by neil.d.cox, on Flickr

Living on the (L)edge

0009_1~1 by neil.d.cox, on Flickr

Lurking Fear, El Capitan

P5250106 by neil.d.cox, on Flickr

Some big route in Switzerland, I’ve forgotten where but it was incredible, stunning cracks and run out 6b slabs on friction!

P7010084 by neil.d.cox, on Flickr

Bit of a granite theme to my favourite climbs I think 😉

@ampthill – I think that was just Seamstress, nice and easy with plenty of opportunity for photos I never seem to have photos of hard stuff, I guess I’m normally too gripped to care at the time!

Dave

Yes I have so few photos from climbing

One of the few is me on Mau mau above. Just lucky that Elleptic happened to wander up into the quarries and find us with his camera that day

I have virtually no shots of me climbing. My mother has one of me on Scratch Arete at Tremadog wearing green Ron Hills, but I’m not sure that would ever be suitable for public consumption.

neil, those are brilliant!

i’d love to do some big wall in the (distant) future. My other half was reading an article about El Cap and said to me “Where is “Big Wall”?”. I told her that it was a special mountain in Romania. She replied by saying “Hmmm, we should go there, but I’d like to be able to lead first so you don’t have to do all the pitches”.

🙂

Housewives favourite:

img008 by ianvincent, on Flickr

California (Tuolomne Meadows and King’s Canyon NP)

South Crack, Stately Pleasure Dome

P8120028Tuolumne Meadows 2004 by stuartie_c, on Flickr

A route I like to pretend is the Bachar-Yerian:

test094 by stuartie_c, on Flickr

Regular Route, Fairview Dome:

Regular Route 5.9, Fairview Dome by stuartie_c, on Flickr

Regular Route 5.9, Fairview Dome by stuartie_c, on Flickr

South Face of Charlotte Dome:

South Face, Charlotte Dome. King’s Canyon NP, California. by stuartie_c, on Flickr

Crescent Arch, Daff Dome:

Crescent Arch 5.10b, Daff Dome by stuartie_c, on Flickr

Thanks PP, it is a stunning place, done a total of about 10 weeks out there over a couple of years (back around 2005). The first trip I was with a mate who led a bit harder than I did but I tended to be a touch quicker, the second year I did all the leading, which also means all the hauling, or self belaying the next pitch while your second cleans then hauls. Once you get your head around it all and develop a rhythm the pitches fly by. On Lurking Fear I was climbing with an American lad I met up with, we did the route (minus 2 top pitches as I needed to get an afternoon bus out to LA to fly home) in a day and a half. Not exactly record breaking, but I’d like to think we were shifting!

Scotland:

Reiff:

reiff1 by stuartie_c, on Flickr

Stac Pollaidh:

P1010159 by stuartie_c, on Flickr

Waterfall Gully, Ben Nevis:

P1010192 by stuartie_c, on Flickr

Mingulay:

calm_at_sunset by stuartie_c, on Flickr

“Lost the Place”, Ben Nevis:

P1020291 by stuartie_c, on Flickr

“Haystack”, Shelter Stone:

haystack by stuartie_c, on Flickr