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Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 21, 2018, 04:21:18 pm
http://davemacleod.blogspot.co.uk/2018/03/the-248.html

An excellent coincidence of skill and weather!

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#1 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 21, 2018, 04:49:13 pm
Brilliant effort

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#2 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 21, 2018, 06:30:25 pm
Amazing. I like that he'd done the standard three 8s by 9:15 am. A lifetime goal of mine in a few hours.

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#3 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 21, 2018, 07:21:52 pm
That's pretty inspiring, what with all the injury woes he's had the last few years.

Effort.

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#4 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 21, 2018, 07:25:33 pm
That looks like an amazing day out. Waddage.

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#5 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 21, 2018, 08:56:50 pm
Meaty as fuck.

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#6 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 22, 2018, 12:05:00 am
Simply amazing.

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#7 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 22, 2018, 06:24:56 am
Love the bizarreness of it. Can’t be many places. You can do it. Shame he didn’t couldn’t have got touring skis on at ticked 800m of descent on those Munro’s

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#8 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 22, 2018, 08:40:50 am
Love this and top effort. To my mind this is what climbing is about, enabling awesome adventures in amazing places with good people.

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#9 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 22, 2018, 09:03:31 am
Love the bizarreness of it. Can’t be many places you can do it. Shame he couldn’t have got touring skis on and ticked 800m of descent on those Munros.

Corrected. It was early..

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#10 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 22, 2018, 11:05:35 am
You could still have smashed in an 8A+ by that time - you've no excuse.

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#11 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 22, 2018, 11:44:53 am
Guess I'm a punter in every respect.

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#12 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 22, 2018, 12:55:45 pm
Fantastic day out - Sounds exhausting!

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#13 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 23, 2018, 08:34:07 am
Epic!!! :bow:

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#14 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 23, 2018, 09:51:18 am
It's the 8 munros bit that gets me. 8A+, 8a, E8, VIII somehow wasn't enough!

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#15 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 23, 2018, 10:09:50 am
I've no concept of how hard VIII 8 is, but it says something about it that he casually knocked off the rock routes by breakfast and spent the rest of the day doing the grade 8 and doing a long walk. Does anyone who knows the area know how much ground they covered doing the Munros? The Cuillin Ridge has 11 and that took us a little over 12 hours from the first top to the last.

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#16 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 23, 2018, 10:20:16 am
40km total I think, plus the ascent and descent. So a decent mountain marathon.

I haven't done VIII either but V is always equated with HVS (which is fair) and I've heard VIII compared to big trad E5/6. Pete should have a decent perspective. So on paper perhaps the easiest, but I'd guess there are less folk in the UK operating at VIII than any of the other disciplines here.

I think this is the most impressive thing Dave has done. Very inspiring.

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#17 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 23, 2018, 10:26:52 am
It's great idea and, as usual with DM, the planning and preparation leaves little to chance (that's a compliment in my book).

It's the 8 munros bit that gets me. 8A+, 8a, E8, VIII somehow wasn't enough!

Dave's a proud Scot and the inclusion of a uniquely Scottish element to the challenge won't be an accident. This certainly dethrones "King of the Pass", can we now crown him Emperor of Lochaber?

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#18 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 23, 2018, 10:38:08 am
Yeah, it makes King of the Pass look like an after-work bouldering session.

Agree on the planning element. But also the detailed understanding of local conditions and geography, night navigation, team building etc. I can't even get a partner for Burbage.

Either they rename it Ben MacLeod or Dave changes his name to David of Nevis.

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#19 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 23, 2018, 10:44:43 am

Dave's a proud Scot and the inclusion of a uniquely Scottish element to the challenge won't be an accident. This certainly dethrones "King of the Pass", can we now crown him Emperor of Lochaber?

Laird of Lochaber surely?

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#20 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 23, 2018, 11:10:33 am
Looking a the route he took on the map, it looks like he basically walked home on the high ground from Ben Nevis, taking in the Munros on the way, which is awesome. I wish he'd had a GPS on, as he must have covered some serious vertical meterage too!

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#21 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 25, 2018, 05:14:21 pm
8 munros cracked me up, it's so provincially Scottish. Wish he'd finished it off with 8 pounds of haggis and a dram of an 80 yr old single malt for effect. Pretty sure a keto extreme diet allows the former?

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#22 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 25, 2018, 07:35:13 pm
Or an 8 second bottle of Buckfast...

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#23 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 25, 2018, 09:54:10 pm
I've no concept of how hard VIII 8 is, but it says something about it that he casually knocked off the rock routes by breakfast and spent the rest of the day doing the grade 8 and doing a long walk. Does anyone who knows the area know how much ground they covered doing the Munros? The Cuillin Ridge has 11 and that took us a little over 12 hours from the first top to the last.

If you can boulder 8A, I guess "doing an 8A" is relatively straightforward (i.e. not much physical effort, just performance). Doing an VIII is never going to be quick, but I'd hazard that its a much more "achievable" level than either of the other "8"s.

Quick comparison of my regular "VIII level" partners and me.

Me: Done a couple of VIIIs, onsight E5, Fr8a boulder 7B
AI: Loads of VIIIs, some IXs, onsight E5, Fr7c+ Boulder 6C+   (he is notoriously shit at bouldering though) :lol:
NA:  Loads of VIIIs, some IXs, onsight E4, Fr8a, Boulder 7B
GM: Some VIIIs, some E5s, Fr7c, boulder?

i.e. VIII is setting the bar low on the "8s" comparison table.

Great achievement by Dave.  :thumbsup:  Always been keen for some kind of Ben Nevis trilogy with ice, rock and a gully ski in a day.

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#24 Re: Dave Mac's Big Day Out
March 28, 2018, 04:39:29 pm
Yeah I've always equated Scottish VIII with E5 and 7a+ as the winter climbers I know who lead VIII tend to operate around those grades on rock and maybe Font 7a on a good day. So, in some ways D-Mac's mashup is a bit unbalanced but I still think it's cool and more about being able to do all those disciplines in one small geographical area (he could have done a Font 6a, French 6a, E4 6a etc as far as I'm concerned). Kudos etc.




 

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