[Palomides]

Did a comp yesterday.
Acheived goal and didn't come last.
Today my shoulders and core are so sore that I failed to do yoga this morning.

Brilliant. 

[SA Chris]

Amazing day ski touring in Glen Clova, 2 great descents. plus one we struck out on and had to retreat (always a yin to the yang). Amazing conditions, skied all the way into Corrie Fee, and pootled most of the way along the landy track before snow ran out.

And the winter is not over yet, get here if you can....

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/uk-weather-latest-easter-bank-holiday-snow-temperature-drop-weekend-forecast-a8264836.html

[Nibile]

YYFY! Just did 21 reps with 85% (67kg), previous effort with the same weight was 11. Did 13 reps straight away (so already an improvement), and then got to 21 resting the bar on the blocks and catching my breath. Technically as sound as I can be at the moment. Brilliant.

[Andy F]

First day on rock for 6 months, a top crowd of like minded people of all flavours (except meat for the amino acid free vegans) and first visit to Porth Ysgo yesterday. What a fucking class venue, so many classics, so little skin left.

[Fiend]

Sounds top, enough UKBers / scousers there?

[Andy F]

Hosey, CBA and various other Lancs based luminaries. Top team.

[Muenchener]

A bit of a lame yyfy in that it doesn't involve me actually doing anything, but just saw that Adam Ondra is a keynote speaker at a tech event I'm attending next month. Should brighten up the day a bit.

[andy popp]

Mark Rankine (that's Mark20 right?) just told me he repeated my Time Regained today. This was my swan song I guess, not that I knew it at the time, and it has a lot of significance to me, for a variety of reasons. And its a good and hard route I think. It just made me really happy to know someone had wanted to put a little time in to trying it.

[Wood FT]

Mark Rankine (that's Mark20 right?) just told me he repeated my Time Regained today. This was my swan song I guess, not that I knew it at the time, and it has a lot of significance to me, for a variety of reasons. And its a good and hard route I think. It just made me really happy to know someone had wanted to put a little time in to trying it.

This is great, nice one Mark

[highrepute]

Mark Rankine (that's Mark20 right?) just told me he repeated my Time Regained today. This was my swan song I guess, not that I knew it at the time, and it has a lot of significance to me, for a variety of reasons. And its a good and hard route I think. It just made me really happy to know someone had wanted to put a little time in to trying it.

This is great, nice one Mark

https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/c.php?i=19032 for those not in the know. Good work Mark and congrats Andy.

[cheque]

Mark Rankine (that's Mark20 right?) just told me he repeated my Time Regained today.

Waddage.

[Will Hunt]

Last Friday, the sun shone on England. Sam and I took it as a day's holiday and set off for the Lakes. We drove past Giggleswick through mist and drizzle and arrived in Ambleside to see low cloud in Langdale. We stopped at a shop to get a few bits and pieces and were advised to stick to the valley that day.

We set off up Langdale and wondered about doing a route at Raven Crag Walthwaite, but decided to press on. Coming towards the head of the valley, the clouds broke up, and we could see Gimmer there, veiled only by a thin and rapidly disintegrating mist. We turned to each other and laughed.

Setting off on Intern at about 11, a raven floated past the crag, cronking its beautiful cronk as it went. We got to the Ash Tree Ledges to find them in gorgeous sunshine. Sam had decided to climb in a t-shirt. "Are you not cold, Sam?" "Aye, it is a little chilly at times". The 40m pitch of Springbank in the hot sun and bouldering shoes was a bit of a slog, but worth it for the nice climbing. Toes were burning at the top.

We abseiled back down and I persuaded Sam to do Equus. He wasn't too sure if he was up to it. He arsed around placing 4 runners under the initial roof before finally mustering the courage to pull over. On the lip, with a tumbling, bumping fall below him, he wobbled and fell up and rightwards to a better position. Quite a gripping watch. He fiddled in a runner and proceeded the toe and calf burning bridging that followed - each move preceeded by a quavering whimper of "Watch us here". I'd forgotten how good the climbing on this was.

Arriving at the junction with Kipling Groove, he looked down at me and announced that he had one quickdraw left and would be taking a belay. He hung in space at the top of the groove, exactly one move before the climb's crux. I led through and watched him follow in golden evening light.

Back down at the bags I looked at the time. This had all taken us about 8 hours (shambles) and we necked our water and our lunch. The sun set behind Bowfell, and we ambled down to the pub with warm hearts.

[spidermonkey09]

 "Are you not cold, Sam?" "Aye, it is a little chilly at times".

I can hear this in my head; perfect! Sounds like a great day out. Need to trad climb more in the Lakes.

[Will Hunt]

 "Are you not cold, Sam?" "Aye, it is a little chilly at times".

I can hear this in my head; perfect! Sounds like a great day out. Need to trad climb more in the Lakes.

I kept tempting him to do Kipling Groove as it's so good. He'd set boundaries very early on that he would not, under any circumstances, climb anything easier than E1 all day.
"I am not flogging up some fucking Lakes VS".

There were some other gems, but none that can be repeated in public.

[spidermonkey09]

Lakes VS --> probably harder than Equus anyway!

[Nibile]

YYFY!
Just handed in the translation of Andy Kirkpatrick's "1001 climbing tips"!

[Muenchener]

I kept tempting him to do Kipling Groove as it's so good. He'd set boundaries very early on that he would not, under any circumstances, climb anything easier than E1 all day.
"I am not flogging up some fucking Lakes VS".

You could start via Intern, gets E1 nowadays but was HVS when I did it (having crawled to t'crag backwards over barbed wire etc etc) and felt quite hard & scary enough thank you very much.

[Will Hunt]

I thought the climbing on Intern was steady, if not a bit 3D, odd, and maybe slightly off-balance. It's the lack of protection in sound rock for a few moves that bumps it to E1 I think.

[teestub]

YYFY!
Just handed in the translation of Andy Kirkpatrick's "1001 climbing tips"!

Was there much in there about neoliberalism, sheeple, the illuminati and the Bilderbergs or does he just keep that stuff for instagram?

[spidermonkey09]

I'm sure this has been discussed elsewhere but for all Andy's obvious skill and deep knowledge about climbing, I have been left angry, concerned, outraged and everywhere in between by his Facebook/Instagram!

[andy popp]

I hadn't seen the instagram feed but once argued online with Andy (whom I don't know) after he wrote what I thought was a deeply unpleasant piece about Catherine Destivelle - that was enough for me. The instagram is pretty risible. Andy would probably say I need to get red pilled.

[Will Hunt]

One of the comments on one of the posts says "don't let the main staff media get to you". Clearly irony is not a concept that these guys are familiar with.

[tomtom]

Finally got Caviar (boulder problem start) done after many many sessions

Yyfy

[jshaw]

Nice one!

[Duma]

Nice one tt, that's been a while coming!