[Fiend]

Hockstack and several others were filming and taking photos - we met the busy and extensive entourage and a more peaceful if tired/focused Caff at Reecastle (The Rack Direct, Finger Flake Finish, Water Torture, Bold Warrior, The Gibbet, The Gauntlet, Guillotine - before moving on to Goat's Crag "I'll get loads done up there, it's only an easy 20 minute walk, more like 15"....is it fuck, fit bastard!). Didn't realise he'd been all over Scafell and Langdale before Borrowdale, that is a ridiculous amount of terrain to cover, it makes doing 100 grit extremes look like doing 100 grit boulder problems.

[casa]

ah, now i see. All that faffing around in the US was really just training, for this, the real deal. Bendigedig

 

[cowboyhat]

James McHaffie has soloed 100 extremes in the Lakes in 19 hours. Incredible!

Immense

[shark]

James McHaffie has soloed 100 extremes in the Lakes in 19 hours. Incredible!

Immense

But what's he done in boxing gloves and roller skates ?

[T_B]

it makes doing 100 grit extremes look like doing 100 grit boulder problems.

It really does. I don't know if people can really comprehend how f*cking hardcore this is, unless you've done a lot of extremes in the Lakes! We are not talking about El Cap granite here. Sure, it must be a staggering amount of terrain to cover, but whilst those routes on Reecastle are clean and have nice, positive incut holds, many of the routes he must have done would be technical face climbing on less-than-perfect rock, with at the very least, a bit of dust here and there. Can't wait to see the list of routes.

[Doylo]

  Madman. I can just imagine how tricky some of those Lakeland E3s are!

[cheque]

Incredible stuff.

Madman. I can just imagine how dirty some of those Lakeland E3s are!

[Jaspersharpe]

An unbelievable effort.

[Sloper]

James McHaffie has soloed 100 extremes in the Lakes in 19 hours. Incredible!

Absolutely outrageous,  I bet there aren't too many takers to repeat the feat.

[Stubbs]

Astounding!  I wonder if there was any pre cleaning or he just took them as they came? 

[slackline]

Melissa Le Neve repeated Wall Street!

Does the use of a heel hook on the worlds first 8c provoke the same amount of dismay as the use of a knee bar on (non-ascents of)  Hubble has though?

[nai]

Bit more about Caff's unbelievable day here:

http://dmmclimbing.com/news/2014/06/mchaffie-solos-100-lakeland-extremes-day/

[Fiend]

Astounding!  I wonder if there was any pre cleaning or he just took them as they came?

I don't think so. Borrowdale at least has been in pretty good nick recently, really dry. It's the approaches and amount of different crags that is as impressive as the climbing!

[petejh]

Melissa Le Neve repeated Wall Street!

Does the use of a heel hook on the worlds first 8c provoke the same amount of dismay as the use of a knee bar on (non-ascents of)  Hubble has though?

[attention deficit] what/where/when/who? Caff, solo, lakes, g-narl [/attention deficit]

[Sloper]

Red braces, greed is good? long mountain routes, weak at the knees feeling x 100 etc <one eyed dismissive attitude to bolt clipping>

[Stubbs]

Dan Bozza Smith has mad ethe first repeat of Sharma's Trifecta Middle at Flock Hill, always thought this problem looked amazing, nice one Bozza! http://climber.co.nz/news/trifecta-middle-repeated

[slackline]

Astounding!  I wonder if there was any pre cleaning or he just took them as they came?

I don't think so. Borrowdale at least has been in pretty good nick recently, really dry. It's the approaches and amount of different crags that is as impressive as the climbing!

From the DMM interview nai has linked to...

What preparation did you do beforehand?

I did a big recce on the Wednesday before and had been studying route lists for weeks but it kept changing all the time. On the day I kept it flexible to suit how I was feeling as I didn’t know how tired I’d be. About 80% of it I reckon I had previous experience of soloing. I did three routes including an E3 on Neckband Crag I hadn’t done before. Before going to Yosemite I’d planned to try the 100 Lakes solos when I got back and I’d also been doing quite a bit of soloing in Wales as training.

Did you take many breaks?

Not really. There was a lot of ground to cover between crags. At Shepherds around the seventy route mark I felt fatigued and had 10 minutes rest and an egg roll at the café. Fortunately at Castle Rock I got a second wind. At some of the crags I had an abseil rope in place to make it quicker to get back down.

[Muenchener]

Dan Bozza Smith has made the first repeat of Sharma's Trifecta Middle at Flock Hill

The problem was originally thought to be V14, although consensus has seen it settle at V13

Wait. Nobody had repeated the problem and yet there was a consensus about the grade. 

How does that work then?

[SA Chris]

Pete flew off, landed awkwardly and spectacularly snapped his tibia and fibia in half, signalling the end of his attempts.

This comes with a NSFW warning btw, especially the photo right at the very end. Grim!

Good effort from Dan Smith, top looks proper hard.

[slackline]

Wait. Nobody had repeated the problem and yet there was a consensus about the grade. 

How does that work then?

Armchair grades. 

[Stubbs]

Yeah I decided not to watch the video! As for the grade, NZ seems to be keen to keep the grades at the stiff end of the scale!

[danm]

I wondered what Bozza was up to in NZ, now we know. Streng!

[Bonjoy]

... had 10 minutes rest and an egg roll at the café.

got a second wind.

More tea vicar?

[remus]

Dan Bozza Smith has made the first repeat of Sharma's Trifecta Middle at Flock Hill

The problem was originally thought to be V14, although consensus has seen it settle at V13

Wait. Nobody had repeated the problem and yet there was a consensus about the grade. 

How does that work then?

Got to remember that Sharma doesn't usually grade things, so V14 was probably a guess in the first place.

[a dense loner]

No Remus the points were made about people having a very strange belief that you don't know the grade of something until you've climbed it.