I’m not actually in this photo, I took it. But it’s something I’m very proud of- this was the first year of the Glencoe Massacre, a big rideout I created back in… 2007 I think, with SV650.org. It’s still going now though I bowed out in about 2010.
The second shot is just me pootling, but I’m bringing home the last riders in my last one. I knew it was my last big ride so it was a Moment.
And while i’m at it, this is me on the first trackday I did after I broke my hip. So it’s sporty, and adventuret because I was still trying to figure out how to go round corners with one working leg 😆 But I like the shot, this one ended up getting printed in TWO magazine in an article I cowrote. Never did get paid for that!
I think Whitestone wins the forum tonight with some great vertical stuff. I’ve got a few nice vistas taken in the alps, but not in the same technical league.
Oops! Sorry guys – didn’t mean to post a royal flush so early in the thread 😳
The shots are scanned from slides (the 1980s remember, no digital back then), I’ve hundreds of slides that I’ve not scanned for one reason or another. Actually I’ve hundreds of Kodachrome boxes of slides that haven’t been kept in the best conditions so they’d take some work to be presentable.
@Scotroutes – yes first shot is Fallout on Esk Buttress, second is on the crag behind the Old Dungeon Gill Hotel. Third is on the Petit Dru above Chamonix (the huge obvious rock spire when you enter the valley). Last shot is the crux of Minus One Gully on Ben Nevis.
@welshfarmer – we’d often head over to the Dales to do a bit of caving during the winter but to the best of my knowledge none of us ever took a photo whilst doing it.
Now you’re asking. I think it was a Blade or Blade II of some description, and it’s possibly Anglesea. I’m far from certain though, if I’d known there’s was going to be a test I’d have taken notes. (-: I’ll have a rummage through my photos tonight if I get chance, the rest of the set might give clues.
2006, Snetterton on my GSXR750K1 race bike… OK, so it’s not climbing mountains, but having come back from breaking bones in 0ver 20 places, it still goes down as pretty hardcore for me.
Old work, digging in
A bit deeper
Current work
The moment we lost the school captured by the brigade photographer, only pic I have of current work I think. I’m stood on left admiring the flames 🙂
Drunken night in Jan in the Peak set out some targets, lead E1 by the end of the year, ticked the next morning (I may have lent on the rope a little as my mate explained the leaping finish)
Pic with an arti shell found on bottom when diving at Swanage that mate wanted to clean up for mantelpiece, only to realise fuse head was still in place and beach had to be evacuated!
Freebornman at Swanage. This took a bit of working up to as a must-do dws. The route description included this memorable line:
“..like leaving school, passing your driving test and burning down your first public building…” 🙂
And here on the Diamond on Lundy. I’d just lead the cracking Diamond Life to the left. Here I’m on the halfway belay of Watching the Ocean as my mate pulls out a cracking on-sight. Stunning face of granite dropping down to the sea in an incredible setting. Routes and places like these make me want to return to climbing.
Yep, bad weather meant the boulders were a good one and the guide had the pictures guide to that simple problem 🙂 on the roaches I think that was the first time I made the leap properly, a really good perfect light pic that I need to find the negative for