There's a moody black and white pic of Christian Durkin doing it in Pantontino's Yorkshire Bouldering article in Climber from around '98. We might find this hard to believe today, but back then no-one found it necessary to say how many pads he used, how tall is (+ ape index), which starting holds are allowed or whether he French started. I'm glad standards have moved on...
I'm 5.8 on a good day.
in the back of your mind theres always that niggling doubt about grades... come on you know its true ...yes thats wright even you mister "I dont care about grades"
Wobble's word is gospel.
and Lo! He didst do Zoo York and didst find it 'not to bad', and thus it was graded V7
Quote from: Tom de Gay on February 11, 2011, 11:16:45 amI'm 5.8 on a good day.Same here
If it was good enough for the Wobble and JB, it's good enough for me.
You still climbing Tom?
(surfchimpster – mildly curious - when you said it was 7C+ that way, was that from having done it, or taking a guess after having a play – it wasn’t clear?)As for the name – it doesn’t have anything to do with different sequences. Andy Swann and Christian Durkin both climbed this around the same time in 1995 – Andy called it Waite, Christian called it Welsh Rarebit. But as it turns out, Matt Birch climbed it way back in 1990 but hadn’t named it. So take your pick for the name really although I think most now call it Waite.
(No idea who Wobble is because I'm not from Sheffield and only first drew breath in 1989).
Quote from: Will Hunt on May 01, 2020, 12:12:23 pm(No idea who Wobble is because I'm not from Sheffield and only first drew breath in 1989). does anybody really know the Wobble? The man, the myth, the jackets, the glasses... as someone editing the caley script there should be a clue in another boulder problem name nearby...
Gotcha! I've actually taken that one out.
Pot calling the kettle black there Will.. :D Have you actually been counting? is 39?Go on - how many days until christmas?
a bit wordy
Sorry, Rob, I see your confusion. The subtitle is Make Climbing Hard Again.
Can't believe you're calling Peak climbing southerners.