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Neil Gresham climbs new 8c 'Freakshow' at Kilnsey (Read 68444 times)

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According to Facebook Neil has done the deed and climbed his big roof project above Hardy Annual which I understand has crux moves through the initial roof and then joins a rail leading rightwards into Mandella, up which it finishes. Awesome work Neil!  :strongbench: :icon_beerchug:

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Great work! I'd be interested to hear about his prep for this route - it appears to have consisted of a mix of dieting, creatine and Haston-ation.

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looks really cool, when Neil was working it. Congrats on the ascent.

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Had a quick play on the first crux of this at end of the day on Sunday, it seemed ace, well good addition to the crag

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Roof climbing is ace.

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That's ace news

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Dave Stainy told us about this route, made it sound way harder than 8c!

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What's the breakdown?

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I heard the crux move was V9 but I may be wrong. Neil put a detailed topo up on his Facebook page with the grades of the individual sections

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I'd expect some pretty nice footage being released at some point soon from Lukas W (I'm not even going to try and spell his name from memory).

Good effort Gresh.

Having been up in the roof when he's been having a burn the moves on this look really good.

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Vertical 7b into 7C into 8b? Sounds a lot harder than something like Bat Route.

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Gresh improved his beta for first crux, said it felt like 7B with his final method

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Dave Stainy told us about this route, made it sound way harder than 8c!
It is certainly an impressive line and looks very hard ..... However how hard something looks to someone watching is irrelevant. Neil climbed it and he is in the best position to give it a grade. Superb effort.

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Great work! I'd be interested to hear about his prep for this route - it appears to have consisted of a mix of dieting, creatine and Haston-ation.

and yoga to help recovery in the awkward resting positions too... Haston-ation - hard RPing followed by weighted pulls?

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Did I hear Barrows has repeated this?

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You did, he did.

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and did some excellent JStar-inspired take-the-higher-grade-but-say-its-the-lower-grade 8a.nu spray

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Did I fuck. Need to do epic adventures and guns in the sky to decide but my current leaning is 8c

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And then some JStar-inspired forum backtracking

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Irrespective, it's ace, up there with the likes of true north and bat route in quality terms IMO

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And then some JStar-inspired waffle about it being all about the experience.

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Irrespective, it's ace, up there with the likes of true north and bat route in quality terms IMO
And then some JStar-inspired waffle about it being all about the experience.
I wish the experience was over in some respects but I would agree the route is amongst the best in Yorkshire (and therefore the UK).

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And then some JStar-inspired waffle about it being all about the experience.
Okay so it's taken many years, but finally that has made me LOL and warmed me to you, 3-9. Brilliant  :lol:

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Yup, that was perfect comedy timing. Barrows, you got done :-)

 

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