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#750 Re: significant repeats
October 14, 2009, 08:49:55 pm
Nice one Rob and Sam, beasts.

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#751 Re: significant repeats
October 16, 2009, 11:19:21 am
Would like to take issue with a certain friend and fellow punter about the issue of getting a grip.
What is there to hold onto other than holds and social convention?
DON't try too hard you may pull something!
lots of love Punter Pat

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#752 Re: significant repeats
October 16, 2009, 12:58:04 pm
What sort of training for Font is that Rob??

Awesome tho...

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#753 Re: significant repeats
October 17, 2009, 07:39:33 pm
Jordan did Power Ranger today.  :thumbsup:

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#754 Re: significant repeats
October 17, 2009, 09:58:46 pm
Nice work on the van Adam, virtually electromagnetic psychotronic mind control proofed.


For that alone you get the

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#755 Re: significant repeats
October 17, 2009, 10:04:14 pm
Jordan did Power Ranger today.  :thumbsup:
Doesn't sound very injured :-\

Effort.

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#756 Re: significant repeats
October 19, 2009, 08:34:41 pm
Well done old sport.
Is it a sport roawt?
Can you jingle your jangles off it?
Stone the crows I could do with a good climb myself.
I was thinking of Snowdon, actually, dust of the old crampons, what.

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#757 Re: significant repeats
October 19, 2009, 08:46:27 pm
Nice work on the van Adam, virtually electromagnetic psychotronic mind control proofed.


For that alone you get the


They can still tell when you're asleep and come in and move the furniture around.
You can prove this by lining up all the edges of the furniture and counting all the corners in the room before you go to sleep. There should be just as many corners when you wake up.

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#758 Re: significant repeats
October 19, 2009, 10:47:14 pm
Jordan did Power Ranger today.  :thumbsup:
Ste mac redpointed cry freedom and onsighted idefix (8b) same day.(saturday)

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#759 Re: significant repeats
October 20, 2009, 09:05:21 pm
Jenny did Predator this evening (first female ascent?)

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#760 Re: significant repeats
October 20, 2009, 09:26:37 pm
Awesome!   :dance1:   Its seen lots of attemtion this year, its a bloody trade route. It's like soooo last thursday. :whistle:

Excellent tick Jenny. Well done. Impressive tick to add to an already impressive tick list for this year!

Cheers
Tim

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#761 Re: significant repeats
October 20, 2009, 10:54:19 pm
Well impressive   :great:. The hardest ascent in the UK by a female since the days of Ruth Jenkins???

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#762 Re: significant repeats
October 20, 2009, 10:58:50 pm
Well impressive   :great:. The hardest ascent in the UK by a female since the days of Ruth Jenkins???

Karin and Lucy have done Huecool (8b)


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#763 Re: significant repeats
October 20, 2009, 11:19:17 pm
hasnt karin done another couple 8b's as well? i believe huecool is supposed to be easier than predator?  Will reckons it was a lot easier.  (not my opinion i cannot comment :) )

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#764 Re: significant repeats
October 20, 2009, 11:28:13 pm
hasnt karin done another couple 8b's as well?

Stolen is 8a+/b


Also done Climb Of The Century but that is supposed to be 8a+?


Karin on Huecool


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#765 Re: significant repeats
October 20, 2009, 11:30:16 pm
hasnt karin done another couple 8b's as well?

Stolen is 8a+/b


Also done Climb Of The Century but that is supposed to be 8a+?


like the quick pictured replies. :)

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#766 Re: significant repeats
October 21, 2009, 12:21:55 am
The thing i like best about the miaow walk is if you look away from the crag the awe of the cove sort of arches out in a semi circle and then runs into the landscape to form a circle. Its rad man.
Ah, the undervalued nature of nature, i love it, even a walk suits me.

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#767 Re: significant repeats
October 21, 2009, 09:29:37 am
Much as I hate to drag this thread back to vaguely Nik's Wall related stuff I have researched these new Chas Cooper problems on t'interweb a bit more and come up with the following:
The Whack 7C+
The description for this problems location suggests that it is almost certainly at Buckstones/Nont Sarahs. This is almost certainly the case as in the description it also mentions that the other problem of note in a large prow. This is Pig In A Pokey/Okey Dokey (and a selection of silly link-ups) as shown in these videos






The Whack is a problem that I think I remember seeing, it is just down and left of the prow, obvious sit start in a little recess, hard pull onto the face then easy finish. I didn't try it when I did the other problems as it is a bit eliminate (footblocks to the left and right) but now I'm inspired I'll give it a whirl. I'll try and head over there today and get a photo.

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I really have no idea where this quarry would be, up the road from Mumps roudabout? Looking at Google earth doesn't seem to reveal much so before heading off on an epic quest to Oldham I thought I'd ask if anybody has any concrete knowledge on this one?

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#768 Re: significant repeats
October 21, 2009, 10:08:26 am
looks like a lot of fun, there's even a balletic piroette, nice.

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#769 Re: significant repeats
October 21, 2009, 10:30:29 am
The Whack 7C+

That's the thing we looked at and dismissed as being a bit daft?  Certainly looked hard though, assuming it's the same thing.

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#770 Re: significant repeats
October 21, 2009, 02:44:00 pm
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heading off on an epic quest to Oldham

Don't ask anybody if they can "show you the way to 'Old 'em".

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#771 Re: significant repeats
October 21, 2009, 03:46:32 pm
The Whack

It is indeed the thing we looked at, had a feel of the holds and then dismissed as a bit daft and eliminate. It is eliminate, but is actually a rather good problem. Bit of a one move wonder.
This is the problem:

You start with your left on a dirty sharp sidepull crimp thus:

Right on a poor small slopey thingy-ma-bob:

Smear your left foot on the lip pull on and then pop up for a good right hand:


The left starting hold is VERY sharp, I brushed up the holds a bit then swazzled a flash but on reaching the top discovered this:

Thats just from pulling on once, multiple goes on this are not an option.

Anyway it's a nice move, the finish is scay when wet as it's covered in green slime but in the dry would be very easy. I don't flash 7C+, but maybe I was just lucky? I can imagine it feeling nails if you every time you try it you get a go or two then have to wait two weeks for your finger to heal. Fuck it, I'll take 7C+ until Jim downgrades it to 7A...

I know this doesn't belong in significant repeats really, sorry.

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#772 Re: significant repeats
October 21, 2009, 04:10:21 pm
Where's that big medal gone?

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#773 Re: significant repeats
October 21, 2009, 04:13:26 pm

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#774 Re: significant repeats
October 21, 2009, 04:13:32 pm
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I don't flash 7C+, but maybe I was just lucky?

Maybe all that pulling on minging wet limestone has done you some good  ;)

 

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