[Nibile]

I love how you couldn't help but put on the first holds even with only the botto, board on!!!
 
Gimme those sit starts session!!!

[GCW]

Yeah, I know 

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Nearly there
8 October 2013, 10:05 am

The Board Room is getting there now.  A few weeks ago I finished off the board itself, and lined the kid's wall with plywood (attached to the wall with MultiMontis, of course).  I've put on most of teh bolt on holds I have, other than 8 of the wooden holds (I haven't got a big enough Allen key!) and a couple of the Moon jugs (I had run out of long bolts).  I have quite a few screw on foot dinks to add, but I'll have to play on the board more to see where they are to go.  The kids board has 2 problems set so far.

I only got around to clearing out the room last week and tidied everything through - now there is no junk in there, I have measured up for matting and got a quote.  I'll finalise this and get it ordered ASAP.

I had a play on the Board yesterday, and set a couple of problems which I can't do and which will no doubt end up being 6a+ or something stupid.  I'll need to get the BeardyBeast or Pasty Lord here to calibrate my grading radar.

Lateral view:



AP view:



I am incredibly weak, and everything felt very hard.  Hopefully that is motivation in itself......

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[andy_e]

Nice to see you've built a board for Nik!

[GCW]

Well, most of it was his wood so it was the least I could do

[SA Chris]

Good work G, I've not even cleaared space for mine yet.

[GCW]

Pretty pleased with it, TBH.  Lots of storage space behind it too as I've built a couple of storage shelves to keep all the scaffolding etc.

Big up to the Bearded One for all the help/ kind gifts.   

[SA Chris]

I think I'm going to need to phase the development, phase one being build a shed to keep all the bikes, buggys and gardening shit in.

[tomtom]

Looks fantastic!

[Nibile]

 

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Rain
29 October 2013, 2:32 pm

We did the Rivington Nightrunner 10k on Sunday in torrential rain and fog.  I got a little lost up on the moor and romped home in a pathetic 1:17:33.  The Iron Man was a shade over 1 hour.  The kids did the 1km race and seemed to have fun.

We ran 17k yesterday along the last section of the Rivington Ultra 26 course, got soaked again.  The weather has been rotten to say the least.  Saturday I am off to Damnation to see Carcass, then the 26 is on Sunday.  Hopefully I'll get under 5:30 for it.

I think I've got the matting for the Board Room sorted.  I've played on the Wall of Lank a few times, feeling a little less weak but a loooong way to go yet.

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Carcass
2 November 2013, 11:18 pm

YYFY!  Finally seen them live. They were amazing. They played my favourite song, CJQ, a great mix of tracks from all albums, and Ken's drum solo was really rather moving.

Driving home now as I have a little run in the morning. Buzzing!!!!

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Rivington Trail 26
4 November 2013, 6:58 pm

We did the Rivington Trail event yesterday. Quite windy and very muddy but very enjoyable.

I missed out on the 5:30 I wanted to get, but managed 5:39:36. Iron Man was a shade over five hours. Mini Dude 2 came second in the kids 1k race, Bon effort. I'm looking forward to the Howgills and Grizedale Trail 26 events now.

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[Luke Owens]

Carcass
2 November 2013, 11:18 pm

YYFY!  Finally seen them live. They were amazing. They played my favourite song, CJQ, a great mix of tracks from all albums, and Ken's drum solo was really rather moving.

Driving home now as I have a little run in the morning. Buzzing!!!!

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Bill Steer watched my band play live once, apparently he enjoyed it!

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Board Room Finished
14 November 2013, 8:28 am

The matting came yesterday, and is all in situ (thanks to Steve from Holdz).  It's really nice and the room is now finished (apart from a handful of holds still to go up).  We all had a play on the Wall of Lank last night.  Now it's time to get strong.  I'll have to get the Pasty Lord round to give me some tips.

I've not heard from the Beardy Beast in ages - are you ok out there?





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Brownstones re-edit
12 December 2013, 8:00 am

Old HD footage of bouldering at Brownstones.  I've got a load more on film but it's all old SD footage, and we don't want that sort of thing do we?

Bouldering at Brownstones Quarry near Bolton.

Big Muff 7a+, Lifeline SDS 7b, Groundhog Start 7a, Bloopers 6a+,  Dezertion Eliminate 7b, Unpinched 7a+, Unjustice 7a, Lancashire PotHot  7a+, Nexus Dyno 6b, The Bad 7a+, Nightlife 7a, Dynostrung 6a (FA), The  I.L.T. Dyno 6a (FA), Pigswill 6c+ (sitter 7a), Pigswill no tricks 7a+,  PP 7a+, Ridiculous Dyno 7a+, Ridiculous Eliminate 7a+/b

Climbers:  GCW, Robin Mueller, Andrew Emery

Music by Egebamyasi

from GCW on Vimeo.



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Yorkshire Lanks Part 1
13 December 2013, 9:53 pm

Some old footage of Yorkshire with Nik, Amber and my late father.

GCW and Nik at Work enjoying God's own rock.

The Kebs (Bridestones)  -  Damned Spanky SDS 7b, Nine 7a, Holdless 7a+, Horror Arete 6c, Out of Sight 7a, 7b Wall, Jerry's Arete failure, Small and Smart 6b, Smarter 6b, Traverse 6b+, Cheeseblock Arete failure (I hate this problem!!)

Buckstones (Nont Sarah's) -  Pig in a Pokey 7a+

Music:  DJ Quicksilver - Eye of the Tiger, The Stone Roses - Made of Stone (808 State Mix)

from GCW on Vimeo.



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Yorkshire Lanks Part 2
28 December 2013, 10:51 pm

            More footage from sessions on the Yorkshire Gritstone; this time Almscliff.

Problems:  Steve's Wall 7a+, Below the Decks 6c+, Underhand 7b+,  Underhand Extension 7c, Crucifix Traverse 7a, Crucifix Reverse into  Crucifix Arete 7a+, Dolphin Belly Slap 7a, Dreamland 7a+, Hot Dog  Fromage Variation 7b, Traverse 6c, Traverse into Morrell's Wall 7a,  Pebble Wall 6c+, Pistol Whip 7b, Si's Arete 7a+, Syrett's Roof 6c+, The  Keel 7c

Climbers:  Keith Bradbury, Andy Crome, Arran Deakin, Jim Hilliard, Nik Jennings, Adam Lincoln, GCW and Amber.

Sorry some of it is speeded up but I struggling getting a decent file size.  The UKBouldering crew had a great day out in October 2008, cold conditions and some great ticks!

  from GCW on Vimeo.



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Yorkshire Lanks Part 3
6 January 2014, 6:07 pm

I've had a few sessions on the board over the last couple of weeks.  Feeling stronger than before and finally managed five of the original problems I set.  Plenty more on the to do list though.  I have noticed an improvement in core as well as finger strength. What I need to do next is get out and do some problems so that I have something to benchmark against.  Oh, and get the BeardyBeast and Pasty Lord round too.

Here is the next in the Yorkshire video series of re-edits.

Nik at Work, Rick Ginns and GCW at Widdop.

Red Edge Right 5+, Red Edge Right no arete 6b, Red Edge Right one handed 6a, Red Edge Left 6a, Red Edge Traverse 6b+, Scoop 5, Secret Seventh 6c, Splashdown 6b, The Shelf 6b, Wall left of Splashdown 7a, Arete 4+, Wall and Crack 7a, Blunt Arete 6a, Dam Traverse 6b+, Fight on Black 7b, Pickpocket's Crack 6a+, Four Square SDS 6b, Grumpy Old Men 6b, Nasty Eliminate 6b+, Pickpocket's Wall 6a+, Pool Traverse 6b+

Music by Jeff Buckley:  Grace, Forget Her

from GCW on Vimeo.



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Yorkshire Lanks Part 4
13 January 2014, 6:18 pm

Usual Suspects, but it's Brimham Rocks this time.

Murky Rib 6a+, Murky Rib SDS 7a, The Anchor 7a+, The Big Green 7a, The Grouch 7b, Dolphin Nose Low Traverse 6b, Dolphin Nose Low 6c, Wall 6b, Double Dyno 5+, Black Chipper Arete 7a+, Hanging Flake 7a, The Lost World 7a

Climbers:  Nik at Work, Rick Ginns, GCW

Music by Fleetwood Mac:  Dreams, Go Your Own Way

from GCW on Vimeo.

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Grizedale Ultra Trail 26
23 February 2014, 5:22 pm

The Iron Man and I did this today. Heavy rain and some wind, and quite a tough course. The GPS gave 44km and about 1400m ascent. Watch time was 5:46:38, so quite pleased as I wanted under six hours.

Howgills next. Then the longer stuff.....

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[davej]

welldone awesome!!

[GCW]

Yeah, quite pleased as I'm certainly no runner.

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Aims for 2014 update
20 March 2014, 8:13 am

I finished Tess of the d'Urbevilles last night, just started Crime and Punishment.  So here's an update on Aims for 2014:

1.  Use the board at least once a week.  So far so good......

2.  Boulder 7C or harder.

3.  Reacquaint myself with Silverdale after two years of not visiting.

4.  Do some trad with Nik at Work.

5. Tick two problems from the last few years Aims For lists.

6.  Run another hill marathon or two.  Done the Grizedale Ultra Trail 26, just the Howgills 26, the Three Rings of Shap 100km and the Lakeland 50 to go.

7.  Find some new rock and do a good FA.  No new rock yet, but 2 FAs one of which is pretty good.

8.  Do at least twenty new Wainwrights.  Not yet, but I'll get some done when I train for the Lakeland 50.

9.  7b in Font.

10.  Read ten more books from the BBC Big Read top 100. Tess of the d'Urbevilles and Bleak House this year so far.

39 out of 100 read.

1. The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien

2. Pride and Prejudice, Jane Austen

3. His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman

4. The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams

5. Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire, JK Rowling

6. To Kill a Mockingbird, Harper Lee

7. Winnie the Pooh, AA Milne

8. Nineteen Eighty-Four, George Orwell

9. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, CS Lewis

10. Jane Eyre, Charlotte Brontë

11. Catch-22, Joseph Heller

12. Wuthering Heights, Emily Brontë

13. Birdsong, Sebastian Faulks

14. Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

15. The Catcher in the Rye, JD Salinger

16. The Wind in the Willows, Kenneth Grahame

17. Great Expectations, Charles Dickens

18. Little Women, Louisa May Alcott

19. Captain Corelli's Mandolin, Louis de Bernieres

20. War and Peace, Leo Tolstoy

21. Gone with the Wind, Margaret Mitchell

22. Harry Potter And The Philosopher's Stone, JK Rowling

23. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets, JK Rowling

24. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban, JK Rowling

25. The Hobbit, JRR Tolkien

26. Tess Of The D'Urbervilles, Thomas Hardy

27. Middlemarch, George Eliot

28. A Prayer For Owen Meany, John Irving

29. The Grapes Of Wrath, John Steinbeck

30. Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Lewis Carroll

31. The Story Of Tracy Beaker, Jacqueline Wilson

32. One Hundred Years Of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez

33. The Pillars Of The Earth, Ken Follett

34. David Copperfield, Charles Dickens

35. Charlie And The Chocolate Factory, Roald Dahl

36. Treasure Island, Robert Louis Stevenson

37. A Town Like Alice, Nevil Shute

38. Persuasion, Jane Austen

39. Dune, Frank Herbert

40. Emma, Jane Austen

41. Anne Of Green Gables, LM Montgomery

42. Watership Down, Richard Adams

43. The Great Gatsby, F Scott Fitzgerald

44. The Count Of Monte Cristo, Alexandre Dumas

45. Brideshead Revisited, Evelyn Waugh

46. Animal Farm, George Orwell

47. A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens

48. Far From The Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy

49. Goodnight Mister Tom, Michelle Magorian

50. The Shell Seekers, Rosamunde Pilcher

51. The Secret Garden, Frances Hodgson Burnett

52. Of Mice And Men, John Steinbeck

53. The Stand, Stephen King

54. Anna Karenina, Leo Tolstoy

55. A Suitable Boy, Vikram Seth

56. The BFG, Roald Dahl

57. Swallows And Amazons, Arthur Ransome

58. Black Beauty, Anna Sewell

59. Artemis Fowl, Eoin Colfer

60. Crime And Punishment, Fyodor Dostoyevsky

61. Noughts And Crosses, Malorie Blackman

62. Memoirs Of A Geisha, Arthur Golden

63. A Tale Of Two Cities, Charles Dickens

64. The Thorn Birds, Colleen McCollough

65. Mort, Terry Pratchett

66. The Magic Faraway Tree, Enid Blyton

67. The Magus, John Fowles

68. Good Omens, Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

69. Guards! Guards!, Terry Pratchett

70. Lord Of The Flies, William Golding

71. Perfume, Patrick Süskind

72. The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists, Robert Tressell

73. Night Watch, Terry Pratchett

74. Matilda, Roald Dahl

75. Bridget Jones's Diary, Helen Fielding

76. The Secret History, Donna Tartt

77. The Woman In White, Wilkie Collins

78. Ulysses, James Joyce

79. Bleak House, Charles Dickens

80. Double Act, Jacqueline Wilson

81. The Twits, Roald Dahl

82. I Capture The Castle, Dodie Smith

83. Holes, Louis Sachar

84. Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake

85. The God Of Small Things, Arundhati Roy

86. Vicky Angel, Jacqueline Wilson

87. Brave New World, Aldous Huxley

88. Cold Comfort Farm, Stella Gibbons

89. Magician, Raymond E Feist

90. On The Road, Jack Kerouac

91. The Godfather, Mario Puzo

92. The Clan Of The Cave Bear, Jean M Auel

93. The Colour Of Magic, Terry Pratchett

94. The Alchemist, Paulo Coelho

95. Katherine, Anya Seton

96. Kane And Abel, Jeffrey Archer

97. Love In The Time Of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez

98. Girls In Love, Jacqueline Wilson

99. The Princess Diaries, Meg Cabot

100. Midnight's Children, Salman Rushdie

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[GCW]

Weird, the previous (more interesting post) seems to have avoided being sucked across to here.

Tuesday, 18 March 2014
Cadshaw
Yesterday I popped out for a couple of hours in the morning.  I initially went to Stanworth, and got shut down on the first move of Backslash Bash which was irritating as it felt OK two weeks ago when I was there with the Pasty Lord.

I moved to Cadshaw.  River blocks- wet.  Giganticus- got nowhere.  Red Wall.......

Now Red Wall is somewhere I have battled with a fair old bit.  It's oddly conditions dependent, very fickle.  Yesterday was the best I've seen it. I did Brian Jacques second go, RoB stand second go.  I had a brief look at RoB sit (the old starting foothold is gone) and I don't think the breakage makes a huge difference for me.

I then looked at an old project - start in Brian Jacques, traverse the foul edges of RoB to dyno to the right arete jug and then carry on rightwards.  Only one move I didn't do......

But then, what about a low traverse?  This took quite a bit of work (and Skin) but once I'd worked out a tricky knee scud and a weird kneeling move, I managed to link it after a dozen goes.  Outcast 6c+??.  Quite pleased. 

I also did a new dyno to the right of Hawkeye, going jug to jug.  Great fun.  Because it goes round the overlap it's a bit of a funny trajectory, which makes it all the more enjoyable.  I'll call it Rakkety Tam 6b+ for now, sounds quite dyno like.  I have a better video, but my PC is playing up so it's a 'phone video for now.

The LankyTwat is back..........