[Doylo]

and plenty of funny bits too.

Christ Dave you’re easily amused 

Effort David

[DAVETHOMAS90]

and plenty of funny bits too.

Christ Dave you’re easily amused 

Effort David

Yes, probably! 

And yes again. 

[jamesturnbull97]

Will Bosi has done practice of the wild in only a couple of sessions by the sound of it.
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoPKh6qg-EE/?taken-by=thecircuitclimbing
https://www.instagram.com/p/BoPKyKJhfd1/?taken-by=will_bosi

[T_B]

That dyno looks ace. I'm not one to read into things but "I can't comment on the grade" is code for "it was a path". 

[Nibile]

Jesuschrist. A path.
No wonder though, once you've done Hubble, everything else is p**s.

[Doylo]

That dyno looks ace. I'm not one to read into things but "I can't comment on the grade" is code for "it was a path". 

MacLeod confirmed the grade. Then gave something 8b+ in Scotland that he said was much harder 

[Nibile]

MacLeod confirmed the grade. Then gave something 8b+ in Scotland that he said was much harder 

Yes, I heard he named that "The bills! The bills!"

[Fiend]

That dyno looks ace. I'm not one to read into things but "I can't comment on the grade" is code for "it was a path". 

MacLeod confirmed the grade. Then gave something 8b+ in Scotland that he said was much harder 

And then I highlighted how farcically grade-playing that was, and then got a couple of plebs on here bleating on about how dare I nitpick Dave Mac's grades (commenting on a public blog post that itself went into excruciating detail about how his Arisaig problem was both harder but graded much lower than various problems, oh how dare I) and circle-jerk wadding each other's idiocy as if that was a convincing argument 

[Bradders]

Turnip did Little Women today. Doesn't get done often and he's put a hell of a lot into it. Great effort. 

https://www.instagram.com/p/BoR5sZwAxJB/?utm_source=ig_share_sheet&igshid=1jvswugk38jam

[Will Hunt]

That lad who follows Franco around has done Pebbledash at Ilkley.

https://www.instagram.com/p/Bogpil9jP3n/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

[tommytwotone]

Crikey, that is big news...over a decade since the first ascent if I'm correct. Looks like he's confirmed the grade if I'm reading the Instagram post correctly.


For a line that's (by modern standards at least) "only" 8a, and slap bang in the middle of one of the most obvious, accessible crags in Yorkshire, I can't believe it's taken this long. Guess a lot of the local wad squad don't like the idea of tenuous airy pebble pulling!

[monkey boy]

I think Ryan Pasquill and Nige Kershaw repeated this a while back, or maybe I have made this up.

[danm]

No point asking the Quill, he'll have forgotten all about it anyway by now!

[andy_e]

Didn't Nik do this too?

[tommytwotone]

Spanish spotter yeah?

[teestub]

Spanish spotter yeah?

I did a quick forum search and most of the pebbledash posts were about the damp in your house!

[nik at work]

Spanish spotter yeah?

Oi 

No I didn't do it. I did try it on a rope before it got done and suggested that from memory I thought it was perhaps less than 8A. Happy to be told I was wrong.

[Nigel]

I think Ryan Pasquill and Nige Kershaw repeated this a while back, or maybe I have made this up.

Its the latter! For me at least - I've never tried it. Don't know about Ryan, although I think he downclimbed a similar line on the way home from a night out, after a few beers on top of the Calf.

If we're making things up ;-)

[jwi]

In other news, Jan Hojer has actually done Es Pontas. 3rd ascent after Chris Sharma and Jernej Kruder, I believe.
Source: Instagram @janhojer

[Duma]

Looks from Maddie Copes Instagram story like Ryan has done Speed Integrale 9a

[Wood FT]

Looks from Maddie Copes Instagram story like Ryan has done Speed Integrale 9a

Not sure it’s the full thing, rather Speed (8c+), I hope to be proved wrong though. The man likes a crimp.

[Doylo]

Well it says Speed Integral. Fuckin ace .

[Wood FT]

 

Must have misread it earlier then. GTFI.

[Duncan campbell]

The Quill. What. A. Legend! Well psyched for him!

Talking to Maddie the other day and I asked if she’d been hiding the beers to help him get the edge for the redpoint... she replied saying that Beer in Switzerland was too expensive. Maybe the Quill should get himself Tim Flatanger??

 

[danm]

Where there's a Quill there's a way. Nice work Ryan!