YYFY!!! (Read 2100499 times)

Fiend · July 17, 2015, 08:54:38 pm

Looks as schist as it comes IMO, just the more compact stuff, I've seen loads of similar stuff on the south aberdeen coast.

SA Chris · July 18, 2015, 05:18:04 pm

Quote from: andy_e on July 17, 2015, 06:41:33 pm

Given that most of the South Aberdeenshire coast and anywhere south of the Highland Boundary Fault is made of Devonian sediments I'm stumped... Where was this exactly, so I can ~~bag the first ascents~~ consult a map?

It's North of the HBF. That meets the coast just north of stonehaven. It's north of muchalls, not far from where we went when you were last up

andy_e · July 18, 2015, 05:54:36 pm

Ah, so it's North South Aberdeenshire then! In which case aye, it's Dalradian as AndyR says.

spid3rz · July 18, 2015, 08:44:21 pm

6 weeks HOLIDAYS!! (need I say more...)

SA Chris · July 18, 2015, 11:09:13 pm

Quote from: andy_e on July 18, 2015, 05:54:36 pm

Ah, so it's North South Aberdeenshire then! In which case aye, it's Dalradian as AndyR says.

So psammite then? Thanks not seen anything like it in his coast before. Might try get a rope on it soon and see if there's any gear or holds. If it ever stops raining and tides allow.

andy_e · July 19, 2015, 09:36:57 am

Apparently so...

http://www.bgs.ac.uk/lexicon/lexicon.cfm?mediaType=smartphone&pub=GLGT

SA Chris · July 19, 2015, 08:51:13 pm

Cool, cheers for the help guys. Now to just man up and climb the bloody thing.

JackAus · July 26, 2015, 10:55:26 am

First V8!

A pretty easy one and did it in a session but still!
Then fell off the top out of a long and tough V8......

kelvin · July 26, 2015, 02:01:54 pm

Nice one Jack!

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GCW · July 26, 2015, 05:55:46 pm

YYFY! Don't care about the time, just glad to finish!!!

Muenchener · July 26, 2015, 06:05:37 pm

Impressive

kelvin · July 26, 2015, 08:43:42 pm

Quote from: GCW on July 26, 2015, 05:55:46 pm

YYFY! Don't care about the time, just glad to finish!!!

You must be super psyched!

Superb achievement.

andy_e · July 27, 2015, 08:37:42 am

Does this mean we'll soon be seeing more crap videos of Lancashire's worst 4+s? Well done.

GCW · July 27, 2015, 03:07:56 pm

Once I grow new feet, it's back to the dank dank quarries. In my absence R-Man has secretly been adding problems.....

kelvin · July 31, 2015, 04:48:50 pm

A whole month off work now

Plenty of climbing from Wales to Switzerland and Portland to the Peak. The rest of the time is being spent converting to van for the trip to Europe that starts on October.

Psyche is high!

a dense loner · July 31, 2015, 05:14:10 pm

Climb as much as you can kelvin, a months not as long as you think it is!

rodma · July 31, 2015, 05:21:04 pm

Quote from: a dense loner on July 31, 2015, 05:14:10 pm

~~Climb as much as you can~~ work on the van kelvin, a months not as long as you think it is!

kelvin · July 31, 2015, 05:41:39 pm

Darn. I'll just have to go a 50-50 split. It's a tough life.

rodma · July 31, 2015, 07:44:43 pm

Quote from: kelvin on July 31, 2015, 05:41:39 pm

Darn. I'll just have to go a 50-50 split. It's a tough life.

Depending on the level of conversion, spend some decent time on the van.

Ours took a lot of evenings and weekends to get ready for our font trip, East more than we allowed for, to the point that it was only ready to sleep in about a day prior to setting off, with no time to test any of the systems properly.

It was turn the fridge on, does the light come on, yes, turn it off again.

Anyway, sounds like a decent yyfy. :D

Fultonius · August 01, 2015, 06:45:51 pm

YYFY - my tweaked A2 is healed and I managed to get a number of 7A/7B problems done in quick time in the surprisingly quiet and good Città dei Sassi in the dolomites; unfortunately I didn't manage the 7B/7C problem Nibs showed me while he was there - I'll need to come back for that one.

In celebration, I thought I better drag my ass up the 550m gently overhanging alpine choss fest on the Cima Grande that Andy wanted to do. The whole time I just wanted to be back trying that 7B/7C roof problem left of Dolomitenmann.

Chuffed to bits to have nailed the crux onsight, especially since I thought I was on the slightly easier 7a pitch just before it - no "crux pitch anxiety"!

We liked the face so much we went back at the end of the week and also did ISO2000 (worst named route?) which was also hard and very nice.

duncan · August 01, 2015, 10:05:22 pm

Quote from: Fultonius on August 01, 2015, 06:45:51 pm

In celebration, I thought I better drag my ass up the 550m gently overhanging alpine choss fest on the Cima Grande that Andy wanted to do. The whole time I just wanted to be back trying that 7B/7C roof problem left of Dolomitenmann.

Chuffed to bits to have nailed the crux onsight, especially since I thought I was on the slightly easier 7a pitch just before it - no "crux pitch anxiety"!

We liked the face so much we went back at the end of the week and also did ISO2000 (worst named route?) which was also hard and very nice.

Well done, was wondering how you were getting on.

Fultonius · August 01, 2015, 10:23:01 pm

Cheers. Been meaning to send you an email but packing our life up in Chamonix and moving back has been hectic. Will send you a report sometime.

Nibile · August 02, 2015, 10:25:23 am

Brilliant!
And Città dei Sassi is well underrated isn't it?

Fultonius · August 02, 2015, 11:19:48 am

Yeah, I thought it was good. Ended up climbing there 2 more days - in fact, I thought I'd overdone it on the last day as my skin was so thin I was getting sweaty tips and my arms were getting a bit useless feeling. Andy would have annoyed!

andy popp · August 06, 2015, 05:55:16 pm

Tuesday last week I totally unexpectedly got to do a single route at the Gunks; great to experience, however briefly, one of the great, historic crags. Then I drove all the way to Philly and watched a fantastic gig by Iron and Wine and Ben Bridwell (of Band of Horses). Nice!