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I offered a few choice opinions to the climbers in question - not that it made the blindest bit of difference. It's put me in a right royal grump all day, idiots.http://www.flickr.com/photos/bad-altitude/5235339921/#
10power club / Re: UKB Power Club Week 12 (Mon 26th - Sun 2nd)« on: May 07, 2010, 10:03:24 pm »Monday - Ran aboutTuesday - bouldering for couple of hours at westwayWed - Ran about, almost ended up enjoying it, the sunshine was lovelyThurs - bouldering at westwayFriday- westwaySat - Core exercise, always feel good after doing themSun - westway, felt goodSTG(basically this summer): Continue working to grip handholds as lightly as possible. Go bouldering outside in london for the first time, do dry tooling bouldering project without falling off and breaking my back. When back in scotland try to onsight firestone, have a look at the hurting, get over to skye and do some new routes. When in cham, do joe le taxi, try a new route on the dru, try a nice unclimbed steep ice line that I know of, get on thai boxing, fall off thai boxing. Explore the argentiere glacier more and do some new routes. LTG(basically this winter): Have my eye on two incredible scottish winter lines. If I can get up one of them, it would be ace.
giving CLM a bad name.
light the torches and fetch the pitch forks
Unfortunately it probably happens more than people think. Dry tooling at Denham has certainly scratched the rock in the recent past.
There are define crampon scratches on one of the descents at Back Bowden too.
I lead some easy corner crack, into which I put all my rack, I figured if I was carrying it I might as well place it.Then stuck a top rope on Chalkstorm, checked where the holds were and did it first try. It had some wicked moves, I especially liked using a pinky mono to cross the overlap. Could solo it but not sure if I will.Next day, shunted Obsession Fatale. It lures you in, easy moves to the break, easy moves over the break, a slightly tricky mantle onto a ledge, then you can almost reach the top, stand up on the next smear then I fall. Only onto the shunt, not the 10m to the ground and two broken legs fortunately. Couldn't do the last couple of moves, but I think on a top rope it'd be easier than with a shunt which was pulling me slightly off balance. Tempting to go back and try this again.