[abarro81]

It's gone!
Walked under it on the way to the other end of burbage west this morning (before the damn rain) and the pebble was no more... Chalk mark next to a scar, so presume it's recent??

[fatdoc]

holy mother of god....

we need to glue somthing on it then

[abarro81]

we need to glue somthing on it then

A big pink jug?

[Richie Crouch]

Drill a mono 

[willackers]

Man up!

[Jaspersharpe]

Good riddance. That fucking thing ripped the entire pad of my index finger off. 

[Bonjoy]

Though it's a tragic loss to a classic problem, I won't miss having a numb finger for weeks after pulling on it.

[Dangereux]

Any change in grade? I've not done it, but pebble seemed relatively crucial.  ???

[St Hubbins]

I reckon it was that Ivan Green fella

[Paul B]

I can see him in the next Dosage film screaming "Bring the ruckus" holding that famous pebble in his hand...

[r-man]

No pebble? Excellent. Does this mean it's now a good problem?

[fatdoc]

means it's 7c for the short

[AndiT]

means you don't need to top out for the tick anymore 

[james]

the plott thickens.  I did it yesterday???evening (24th, but im in china now and lost track of time) and all was good. just be a hero and jump from crimp and second sidepull. who needs intermediates

[grimer]

It's not unusual to do it without the pebble, is it? I think that's how andy popp first showed me, and how i did it. AP's not that tall?

[fatdoc]

method developed by patta and perhaps mike lea....

it's damn crucial if you're 5ft 7... otherwise it's as james said..... dyno time!!


7c.

[andy popp]

It's not unusual to do it without the pebble, is it? I think that's how andy popp first showed me, and how i did it. AP's not that tall?

I didn't even know there was a pebble. Where was it?

[Paz]

Middle of the wall on the left of the sidepulls.  Wasn't Stu's beta to tape your thumb to thumb down on it?

[uptown]

method developed by patta and perhaps mike lea....or that uptown fella

If clumsy types ruin any more classics by knocking off the pebbles then I'm gonna have to learn to climb dynamically. You wouldn't like me climbing dynamically...

[dave]

hopefully someone can reconstruct a replica of the pebble out of sika.

[Johnny Brown]

i got a text about this, apparently some guy called sam. i'm pretty suprised it it never seemed fragile.

i say leave it off. i'm 5'8'', my original sequence, still my favourite, didn't use the pebble. instead you layback the flake, getting the top sidepull first with left hand, then matching and going for the break. it is more technical this way, as you can't pull your way through it, and have to make better use of the feet. less powerful and less reachy though, the result being for a lot of folk that's going to make an upgrade to 7c reasonable, it was always at the top end of 7b+ anyway.

[Nigel]

i'm 5'8''

What does this matter - when has anyone ever used the top of their head to hold the grips? (Maybe if you chalked it up, at least it isn't cluttered by pesky hair) I'm pretty sure your hands (better suited to this purpose) are a considerable distance from each other.

This pebble really was awful.

[Jim]

Some more words from the wise there nige. I hope all of these tit-bits are going in your book

[Nigel]

No words, just the tits and bits.