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#300 Re: Chee Dale conditions
April 15, 2014, 08:49:21 pm
A mate was at embankment on Monday doing sturgeon and said it was all climbable so improving fast

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#301 Re: Chee Dale conditions
April 20, 2014, 09:35:36 am
Embankment and two tier completely dry yesterday.  Nettle looked dry too.
Far right hand side of cornice just about dry, chalk on cordless madness (might have been cosmo). All other routes there still wet but the dry patches are now bigger than the wet ones and there's little dripping.

Chee tor looked dry.

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#302 Re: Chee Dale conditions
May 01, 2014, 11:26:35 am

Don't know where else to post this but if anyone is going to go on The Spider then they should know the the bolt shaft of the bolt just round the lip of the main roof is showing through broken rock. It did hold my weight however.

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#303 Re: Chee Dale conditions
May 01, 2014, 12:42:26 pm
It has been like that for at least four years! One of the reasons I sacked off trying it.

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#304 Re: Chee Dale conditions
May 01, 2014, 01:25:53 pm
You're all gone soft! First people were complaining about the first bolt being too high (now lowered) and now the condition of the dogging bolt.

If there is an issue with the crux roof bolt then I will deal with it promptly. If the working bolt is dodgy then rest assured that the real one will catch you.

 I have recently taken to putting antique hangers on dogging bolts when the rock is poor or is out of line just so people don't fully rely on them and keep it backed up.
But please confirm the state of the roof bolt?!!

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#305 Re: Chee Dale conditions
May 01, 2014, 04:36:03 pm
Hi Kristian,
I was just letting people know in case it bothered them. I didn't think that it looked like you would want to even try to clip through this part on the RP although definately use it for working. I was intending to go on it again to see if I can get a sequence to work through that bit as the two or three moves seem quite powerful - you got any beta for this?

The roof bolt seem OK although a little tarnish showing on the surface.

Derek

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#306 Re: Chee Dale conditions
May 01, 2014, 07:02:15 pm
You also have to keep an eye on the nut on that roof hanger as it gets pulled around all sorts of angles and tends to work loose. Would be nice to get resins in but I can't be arsed. Maybe a big fat chunky 12 will do the trick.



Here Gaz locks off on the poor left hold and sorts his feet. I remember some sort of urgent slap for the jug instead.
I have since tried his method which works quite well too.

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#307 Re: Chee Dale conditions
June 10, 2014, 12:08:43 am
Any ideas of the current conditions at Chee Dale? Hoping to go this weekend, providing the weather figures out its June and not April... >:(

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#308 Re: Chee Dale conditions
June 14, 2014, 08:29:14 am
Embankment fine yesterday, few wet patches on Sturgeon bulge but holds all dry. Two-tier looked mostly ok from across the river.

EDIT: not been on it for a few years but the big hold by the 3rd bolt on Sturgeon sounded very hollow, has it always been like that or is it a recent thing?

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#309 Re: Chee Dale conditions
June 14, 2014, 06:07:49 pm
Cheers, did you see what Max Wall was looking like?

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#310 Re: Chee Dale conditions
June 14, 2014, 06:57:36 pm
No seepage at Max but some holds getting wet in the rain this morning. Should be OK tomorrow.

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#311 Re: Chee Dale conditions
June 14, 2014, 07:01:31 pm
Excellent!

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#312 Re: Chee Dale conditions
June 15, 2014, 09:00:49 am
Two tier was fine also yesterday if a little sweaty!

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#313 Re: Chee Dale conditions
June 15, 2014, 05:25:58 pm
All right today, maybe a little damp at places on Max Wall. People climbing on Two Tier and Nettle buttress too

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#314 Re: Chee Dale conditions
August 08, 2014, 08:00:20 am
 :jab: most stuff still dry though the nook is was starting to look damp again though this may just be condensation. Cornice still dry seepage was starting to come through at the bottom of k3 but still climbable.

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#315 Re: Chee Dale conditions
August 08, 2014, 08:04:53 am
Thanks for the update.

I'd be keen to know how the place is at the end of this weekend (earliest opportunity to get back is now Mon night). Nat is on Big Zipper and I was thinking of having a crack at Taylor Made if it's finger (LH) friendly enough (and dry)?

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#316 Re: Chee Dale conditions
August 08, 2014, 10:15:20 am
Taylor made should be rest for you word. Just a bit of a left hand edge on the bouldery start but you can drag it. the rest is big holds apart from a right hand edge/crimp in the roof.

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#317 Re: Chee Dale conditions
August 08, 2014, 11:21:19 am
Thanks although I'm fairly injured this year Gus, finger went bang and then my shoulder went all floppy after I replaced climbing with rings like for like (resulting in a massively fatigued shoulder girdle, looking back this is a bit of a d'oh moment).

Haven't pushed it past the routes surrounding Clarion Call...

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#318 Re: Chee Dale conditions
August 08, 2014, 11:36:03 am
hmmmm, top roof might not be great on the shoulder i guess!

The route's giving me a right spanking! failed again last night. Waaaaaaaaaaaa!

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#319 Re: Chee Dale conditions
August 08, 2014, 11:39:01 am
hmmmm, top roof might not be great on the shoulder i guess!

The route's giving me a right spanking! failed again last night. Waaaaaaaaaaaa!

waaaaaa

what you need is some sea underneath it

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#320 Re: Chee Dale conditions
August 08, 2014, 11:59:16 am
obvs. don't think that would help with connies though, salty sea minister scenes!

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#321 Re: Chee Dale conditions
August 25, 2014, 11:55:26 am
Forgot to say that on Thurs I noticed the big spike/jug on War Memorial moving a lot more than usual. It's keyed in with a smaller block at the bottom end that also has some movement.

Toby had a go at getting rid but he didn't manage to remove it. I'm not sure what the best course of action is, it's certainly not a small block if it were to come off. Maybe because of the void behind it (there's an undercut that forms the bottom of the block) it'd need pinning rather than simply glueing?

Anyhow, take care.

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#322 Re: Chee Dale conditions
September 02, 2014, 07:49:55 pm
Cleaned up Monumental today and its now all good to go. Hopefully people get on it while its still dry!

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#323 Re: Chee Dale conditions
September 02, 2014, 10:40:49 pm
Cleaned up Monumental today and its now all good to go. Hopefully people get on it while its still dry!

Ha!

Tunnels looked considerably wetter than at the last visit, plus the wall seems to have partly collapsed where you leave the monsal trail to go down to the Cornice.

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#324 Re: Chee Dale conditions
September 03, 2014, 04:52:32 pm
Today.
Long Wall etc dry. Cleaned up Mystical attainment 7b+, another good rarely climbed Long Wall route. Crags like Max and Nook down at low level had picked up river mist and looked a bit dark and slidey.

 

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