[Grubes]

Wow some people are going bloody strong in/after our none existance summer.

What a year for caff!

[tim palmer]

So, is a nonsense poem a new genre like Haiku? Or does a double nonsensing mean it makes sense?

As a matter of interest it is a pretty old genre : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonsense_verse

[mrjonathanr]

The sentence wasn't runcible enough for him.

 
Seriously though, despite 'stoichally' being a mis-spelling of 'stoically' and an absurd word to qualify 'impressive', the meaning is pretty clear: he was stoic, the performance was impressive. And that sounds like an understatement. Hard trad climbing's alive and kicking in the UK, to say the least.

[Johnny Brown]

I took it to mean his stoicism was impressive. Which it often is.

[slackline]

Wouldn't that have been better said as "impressively stoic"?

I wonder how long before Caff does the full line?

[tim palmer]

or he did it with impressive stoicism?  I took it to mean he did it without much fuss or drama.  Anyway sorry about the pedantry, and the typo, stoically impressive effort on the route indeed. 
Does this mean he has done the route?

[slackline]

I wonder how long before Caff does the full line?

Sounds like it'll be a few months

James said the route was 'ace' and although he doesn't have the time to do the whole route this trip, he said he might return next spring to climb the whole line.

[Doylo]

Caff calls the crux pitch 8a+ on facebook. Didn't Dave say 8b+?? What's the crack there!

[carlisle slapper]

stoical climbing and the most impressive performance i've ever seen was what it meant but seeing as though both actions occured simultaneously, and i only had 110 characters to work with it was hard to do justice.

Basically Caffs' just rocked up to what on paper was going to be an 8b+ pitch with bad run outs and was planning on just checking out the pitch this trip . He literally checked it out on a toppy once in good connys on a 4 day detour to Hoy and did it in a oner first try getting an idea of the gear in the process. Then he went for the lead the next day. Except it was gusting about 50-60mph winds on the face and squalls were crashing in making it hard for me to even stand upright on the viewing platform but he just cracked on, ragged the crap out of his hands with rope burn from the first fall and all the jams. And still he sat down there in that weather resting up for one last go. To me it felt like the climbing equivalent of watching the dad from last of the mohicans run up that cliff gantry at the end of the film silently tearing through everyone.

To help most people realize what he did for  imagine leading the groove at malham or equivalent on (decent) trad gear but 400m up and 8km walk from the nearest bothy. Then add a bitter 60mph wind which was pulling the ropes horizontal when the ends were out. Then chuck in some horizontal rain on the go he did it which meant he couldn't use the rests properly. Then add the fact it was 4th day on solid and we'd clocked up about 50km of walking with heavy packs on the previous days. Then add the fact that it was his last possible try that day really as the light was going. Basically he had a window the size of a ruddy dolls house to do the route that day and he got it done. I was completely blown away by it, If it'd been sunny and he'd been fresh then I'd have still been impressed with the speed of the ascent (it would've been less than 3rd go too i dare say) but like i say the weather was flipping caustic and he was knackered at the start of the day never mind the end.

[Doylo]

Cheers for the info. Sounds like a rather good effort then   

[grimer]

Absolutely brilliant info :-)

[Wood FT]

To me it felt like the climbing equivalent of watching the dad from last of the mohicans run up that cliff gantry at the end of the film silently tearing through everyone.

 

[Johnny Brown]

Great stuff, hopefully this bodes well for his Yosemite trip!

[Doylo]

Great stuff, hopefully this bodes well for his Yosemite trip!

Hopefully he'll have more luck than last year...

[shark]

Caff's blog write-up

[masonwoods101]

woods has repeated a 9a sport and FA of a font 8c... hardly news for him nowadays i surpose

[shark]

woods has repeated a 9a sport and FA of a font 8c... hardly news for him nowadays i surpose

http://www.b3bouldering.com/

Daniel Woods, fresh off a send of Wyoming’s hardest route, Moonshine 9a at Wild Iris, has made the FA of the White Boulder Project in Wild Basin, in RMNP. This is estimated to be 8C and....

[Wood FT]

I bet it was super technical and super crimpy

[SA Chris]

woods has repeated a 9a sport and FA of a font 8c... hardly news for him nowadays i surpose

You, or another Woods?

[lukeyboy]

I bet it was super technical and super crimpy

Undoubtedly, but I for one am super stoked that he sent

[lagerstarfish]

woods has repeated a 9a sport and FA of a font 8c... hardly news for him nowadays i surpose

who'd have thought that his golf skills were so transferable to both chuffing and bouldering?

[andy_e]

woods has repeated a 9a sport and FA of a font 8c... hardly news for him nowadays i surpose

who'd have thought that his golf skills were so transferable to both climbing and adultery?

[tomtom]

His car parking skills would be perfect for the Tor..

[buster martin]

13 year old jim pope climbed his first 8a hot fun closing at rubicon yesterday, great effort!

[monkey boy]

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=4953

The video of that all talked about knee bar