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Yeah. Just along the road.
We did Glentress on the Tuesday, eden rock on Thursday. Youngest loves the green loop.
Sounds like we crossed paths! We did GT Thursday.
Was in the Lakes last week, took my daughter on her first "multi-pitch" - The Bell, a grade 1 scramble. She loved it, which is encouraging.
Was also speaking with a guy in the Climbers Shop who brought my attention to Centurion on Ben Nevis, which I think is now my target for 2025 (anyone?).
Was also speaking with a guy in the Climbers Shop who brought my attention to Centurion on Ben Nevis, which I think is now my target for 2025 (anyone?)
It's an excellent route. Let me know if you've got a weekend but are short a partner, it's only about an hour and a half drive for me.
Great stuff Jimmy. Scrambling with our kids was the standout awesome adventure from when they were young. We nearly always did Whitsun week in the lakes and did some utterly amazing gyl scrambles. The kids weren't into actual rock climbing but the combination of swimming, jumping and climbing was perfect.
Wetsuit, buoyo, helmet and harness ....
The Esk Gorge must be one of the best scrambles of its type in the world. A kilometre or two of pools, traverses, falls, swims, jumps etc with everything apart from the last fall soloable. Really is outstanding.
Church Ghyll in Coniston is also good, but harder and colder.
Junior on his first via ferrata on Triglav, Slovenia. The Chickenman high on Carn Dearg essentially reversing a section of Bullroarer as part of a harder route. Carn Dearg is fantastic, get an early start on the routes to catch the sun.
@thegeneralist that sounds like the dream! I think we'll get there with Ghyll scrambling but have a water-fearing worrisome mum to contend with too.
@spin if you fancy it I can put a date on it soon, just need to work around soon to be confirmed cub camp date.
As a self confessed weirdo, can I say how much I relate to that piece of writing above, written by one of Scotland's most famous climbing weirdos Robin Smith and featuring Dougal Haston, very much his match in this capacity:)
Funny, the same guy who brought Centurion to my attention also talked about The Bat. Need to check that out.
Most folk reckon Torro is the route to go for there at E2 as the climbing is consistantly of a higher quality than The Bat although it doesn't climb any eye catching features in the way The Bat does. if you want top notch Robin Smith then head to the Coe for Big Top, Yo-Yo, Shiboleth or the Gorms for Needle.
I was a bit underwhelmed by Torro but it was wet when I did it.
If you lead The Bat with grades in hand you won't experience the fight only the fact that the big corner pitch is rather scruffy close up and the other pitches a bit so-whatish. If it's at your limit it then you'll enjoy the fight. The Bat now has four E6s as neighbours, some of exceptional quality.
Have climbed the Bat the crux corner is pretty full on and usually wet, another great classic that feels like Alpine rock is minus one direct, quite often a bergschrund at the bottom.
Ooft, hard work today. What’s ‘bouldering mats hover and blow away mid crux’ on the Beaufort Scale? 🙂
...and take out a kid who's on a Sunday stroll with their parents - no never happened to me 🙂
(please note - no children were harmed in the making of this anecdote)
Anyone want to buy an Alfine wheel?
@Spin bit of a resurrection but I am actually interested. Can't work out how to send a DM!
Suggestions for winter sport climbing destinations please...
Done Mallorca and El Chorro in November before and both were pretty wet. Sardinia was nice then, and Tenerife had great weather in January but not so nice rock.
Really want some nice long lines. Thinking Kalymnos, but flights are apparently bad in winter, which leaves Leonidio as an option... Any experience of it in winter?
Cheers
I did an orange today,
That is all.*
.......
I am pleased, actually very pleased as I tried it about 80 times over two sessions, whereas normally I'm a circuits kinda guy. This is my first orange, and probably my only orange. And it was kinda slabby and soft touch, but you gotta take the wins where you can. (Depot, not 'bleau)
* Apologies, clearly it wasn't all :-). But it is now
Oops dupe....
Nice one.
What’s an orange? Is this another bloody grading system?
It was the future twenty years ago...
What’s an orange? Is this another bloody grading system?
Yes, it relates the size of the holds to the size of citrus fruits. You start off on pomelo and progress towards kumquat.
Depot Orange? Quite tough. Good work. Talking of food at the Depot, I understand the rocky roads are not stocked there anymore. Pffft.
I understand the rocky roads are not stocked there anymore. Pffft.
True but the pizza dude occasionally makes a batch of chocolate brownies when he's not too busy pizzaing.
Which are very good
Kumquats…when clementines aren’t that hard any more and mandarins are approaching a rest
Well played sir :-).
I understand the rocky roads are not stocked there anymore. Pffft.
True but the pizza dude occasionally makes a batch of chocolate brownies when he's not too busy pizzaing.
Which are very good
Kumquats…when clementines aren’t that hard any more and mandarins are approaching a rest
Well played sir :-).
Depot Orange?
These are just pleasing on the eye works of modern art that the setters put up to express their inner selves. There's no actual holds or anything, you're just meant to admire them
Fresh chocolate brownies? Sheffield? I'm only there occasionally, but we went to the Works instead last Sunday morning. Good, but busy. Expected though as the crags were wet. Next time, back to the Depot with this important cake based knowledge.
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The brownies, or at least these hand crafted brownies, are at Trafford Depot. But are only sporadically available.
So caveat grimpeur as people on the Franco Italian border might have said 2000 years ago.
Fresh chocolate brownies? Sheffield? I’m only there occasionally, but we went to the Works instead last Sunday morning.
If cakes is what you want, try Puck and Pollen just around the corner from the works. You might not end up going climbing though...
Well yes, can't be taking any unnecessary risks on serious issues such as this.
Talking of risks, I need to re-sling my cams. (all sorts of makes). Where are folk sending cams off to nowadays? Or diy with a doubled up 30cm sling and something captive to keep it all together? Or fat tape and tape knot?
Puck and Pollen looks good!
Probably will sit lighter than the Norooz kebab I had before a session a while ago. It was good though.
,Ineed to re-sling my cams. (all sorts of makes). Where are folk sending cams off to nowadays? Or diy with a doubled up 30cm sling and something
I'd heard that some companies now refuse to resling stuff older than x years old. Which is a bit of a pisser.
Having said which, the last Friend I had reslung was so old that it had a hexagonal nut on the axle ends.... must have been forty years old!
Ok. Mine aren't quite that old! I have quadcams, aliens, and friends all from late '90's through to c 2004 or so. All well used, but well maintained. Nothing needs doing apart from slings. I will check the x years old thing, so it might end up being diy. No rigid stems! I was a sport climber before trad, so when I started building a trad rack the rigid stemmed friends were already superceded.
DMM will resling their own cams, but otherwise there’s nowt. Some discussion about it here:
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/gear/resling_bd_camalot_c4s_in_uk_or_chamonix-776279?
DMM will resling their own cams, but otherwise there’s nowt. Some discussion about it here:
https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/gear/resling_bd_camalot_c4s_in_uk_or_chamonix-776279?
You can buy precut lengths of dyneema cord from Needlesport and DIY. Having previously done it with tape and tape knots this is much better.
