Climbing Photo Thread

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 –
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2012-07-28 03.15.30[/url] by Mike Smith 79[/url], on Flickr – A return to climbing Mt Arrapeles
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2012-07-29 02.27.42[/url] by Mike Smith 79[/url], 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

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cider soak[/url] by ianvincent[/url], on Flickr

One for the traditionalists:

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img025[/url] by ianvincent[/url], 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[/url] by passtherizla[/url], on Flickr[/img]

Scotland.

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aguilette[/url] by passtherizla[/url], on Flickr[/img]

Argentierre

Ardnamurchan

Glen Nevis

Croatia

Back in the day…

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scarlet runner.jpg[/url] by John Clinch[/url], on Flickr

Scarlet Runner

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Mau Mau.jpg[/url] by John Clinch[/url], on Flickr

Mau Mau

More recently…

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christamasjacksquare[/url] by John Clinch[/url], on Flickr

Christmas Curry

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IMG_0052.jpg[/url] by John Clinch[/url], 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
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Snow Plod to The Top[/url] by Hamster[/url], 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…

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Low traverse from up high, Harmer’s Wood

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Blurry picture of Andy Popp, FA At The Drive By, F7a
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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!)
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P3230070[/url] by neil.d.cox[/url], on Flickr

Descent from the Leaning Tower, Yosemite
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l5[/url] by neil.d.cox[/url], on Flickr

Living on the (L)edge
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0009_1~1[/url] by neil.d.cox[/url], on Flickr

Lurking Fear, El Capitan
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P5250106[/url] by neil.d.cox[/url], on Flickr

Some big route in Switzerland, I’ve forgotten where but it was incredible, stunning cracks and run out 6b slabs on friction!
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P7010084[/url] by neil.d.cox[/url], 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:

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img008[/url] by ianvincent[/url], on Flickr

California (Tuolomne Meadows and King’s Canyon NP)

South Crack, Stately Pleasure Dome

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P8120028Tuolumne Meadows 2004[/url] by stuartie_c[/url], on Flickr

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

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test094[/url] by stuartie_c[/url], on Flickr

Regular Route, Fairview Dome:

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Regular Route 5.9, Fairview Dome[/url] by stuartie_c[/url], on Flickr

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Regular Route 5.9, Fairview Dome[/url] by stuartie_c[/url], on Flickr

South Face of Charlotte Dome:

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

Crescent Arch, Daff Dome:

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Crescent Arch 5.10b, Daff Dome[/url] by stuartie_c[/url], 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:

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reiff1[/url] by stuartie_c[/url], on Flickr

Stac Pollaidh:

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P1010159[/url] by stuartie_c[/url], on Flickr

Waterfall Gully, Ben Nevis:

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P1010192[/url] by stuartie_c[/url], on Flickr

Mingulay:

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calm_at_sunset[/url] by stuartie_c[/url], on Flickr

“Lost the Place”, Ben Nevis:

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P1020291[/url] by stuartie_c[/url], on Flickr

“Haystack”, Shelter Stone:

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haystack[/url] by stuartie_c[/url], on Flickr