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Hollywood Bowl
May 01, 2009, 06:12:13 pm
To anyone who cares, its dry, steep and shady...

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#1 Re: Hollywood Bowl
May 08, 2009, 02:02:30 pm
Has anybody been here in the last few days? Wondering if its grim or not?  :-\
Kleptomaina and illywacker especially.

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#2 Re: Hollywood Bowl
May 21, 2009, 08:16:55 am
All dry  :great:

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#3 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 05, 2009, 10:59:50 pm
Most stuff dry. Few wet pockets on routes that can be avoided. More traffic people!

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#4 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 06, 2009, 08:21:47 am
You think it will still be dry tomorrow even with all the forecast rain?
Thinking of Kleptomania in particular.

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#5 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 06, 2009, 11:00:02 am
You think it will still be dry tomorrow even with all the forecast rain?
Thinking of Kleptomania in particular.

Kleptomania will be fine. You might struggle to get warmed up on stuff. You could just lap the bottom of Kleptomania to the tuffa at fr5+
Might be a tad humid. Was lashing it down when we were there yesterday and stayed bone dry. Nothing on the above route really seeps.

ps. Take a knee ad for right knee.

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#6 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 06, 2009, 11:04:23 am

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ps. Take a knee Pad for right knee.
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Left.

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#7 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 06, 2009, 11:05:21 am

ps. Take a knee Pad for right knee.
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Left.
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That's what i meant  ;)
Was thinking of TSOOHS!

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#8 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 06, 2009, 11:11:30 am
Take some firewood too :thumbsup:

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#9 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 06, 2009, 11:20:47 am
...and midge repellent.

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#10 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 06, 2009, 11:35:02 am
Cheers chaps.

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#11 Re: Hollywood Bowl
August 17, 2009, 10:01:33 am
In pretty good nick the other day. Dry looking routes. Sunset B, illywack, klepto, one hand slappin.

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#12 Re: Hollywood Bowl
May 19, 2010, 10:20:09 am
If anyone's interested its bone dry at the moment and the routes would benefit from a bit of traffic.

There must be some wads out there up for repeating Dunning's hard routes/extensions to Kleptomania!

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#13 Re: Hollywood Bowl
July 23, 2010, 09:11:16 pm
Pretty mint in there last night. all routes look dry. Dropped in to put a belay on my new route, the left hand finish to the sound of one hand slapping to the top of the crag. Goes at roughly 8b. Needs a second ascent....

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#14 Re: Hollywood Bowl
August 21, 2010, 10:54:53 pm
Bone dry in there today :thumbsup:

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#15 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 26, 2012, 08:28:23 am
Anyone been recently? Does Kleptomania stay dry even after the sort of rain we've had lately?

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#16 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 26, 2012, 01:58:06 pm
We had a couple of Sundays there a month ago, and while Klepto should be dry, we've sacked it off for the summer due to midge hell. Doesn't seem to catch a breeze either so didn't see that helping.  :shrug:

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#17 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 26, 2012, 02:02:36 pm
Was that the famous month of Sundays we had?

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#18 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 26, 2012, 03:36:39 pm
Thanks Rob, did wonder about the midges and breeze. May give it a miss  :-\

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#19 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 01, 2022, 12:39:00 pm
I haven't been on a rope in years and neither have I ever been on a route harder than 7b, but Kleptomania has piqued my interest as a boulder problem in the sky. As an 8a route, does that mean it should weigh in at around f7C after the apparently bomber kneebar? In theory that might feel ok!

Judging by the posts above it stays dry too. Anyone keen?

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#20 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 01, 2022, 02:13:09 pm
I haven't been on a rope in years and neither have I ever been on a route harder than 7b, but Kleptomania has piqued my interest as a boulder problem in the sky. As an 8a route, does that mean it should weigh in at around f7C after the apparently bomber kneebar? In theory that might feel ok!

Judging by the posts above it stays dry too. Anyone keen?

As a boulder problem it's probably more like 7A+/B if you can get the techy knees against the tufa to work. I wouldn't underestimate actually clipping the chains, frustratingly knacky.

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#21 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 01, 2022, 03:07:01 pm
I've never done a 7C boulder on an 8a route, and I've done a few very bouldery ones!

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#22 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 01, 2022, 04:50:52 pm
I haven't been on a rope in years and neither have I ever been on a route harder than 7b, but Kleptomania has piqued my interest as a boulder problem in the sky. As an 8a route, does that mean it should weigh in at around f7C after the apparently bomber kneebar? In theory that might feel ok!

Judging by the posts above it stays dry too. Anyone keen?

As a boulder problem it's probably more like 7A+/B if you can get the techy knees against the tufa to work. I wouldn't underestimate actually clipping the chains, frustratingly knacky.

Yeah its 7b max. People always overgrade blocs on routes

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#23 Re: Hollywood Bowl
June 01, 2022, 06:05:13 pm
There was a lengthy thread recently about exactly this topic and I think it was generally reckoned that 7B boulder equated to 8a route.

 

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