[grimer]

Brilliant stuff 

[Footwork]

Women climbers are just as good as men, there just aren't as many of them. Fine effort though!

[Lund]

Balls to it.  Wasn't being critical.  But I'll take my puntering like a man.  Don't want another yoga incident.

[grimer]

Balls to it.  Wasn't being critical.  But I'll take my puntering like a man.  Don't want another yoga incident.

I've no idea what that string of words is about but i like 'em.

[Jim]

bring out the gimp!

[Fiend]

Some information about it here, mostly about Charlie's ascent but a bit more about the route: http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=62878 , which is cool.

[Grubes]

I stumbled upon this Hazel blogging about Once

Nice to see her thoughts on the route and the style in which she climbed it

[duncan]

I stumbled upon this Hazel blogging about Once

"Back in my Dad’s day (according to my Dad) head/redpoint tactics such as toproping, practising, tick marking, mock leading were for those climbers who were too rubbish to onsight or at least go ground up after a few tries. ‘Headpointing’ and ‘cheating’ for him and his friends were practically synonymous. Probably because anyone can do a route in 20 tries… right?"

Hazel's Dad top-roping Lost Illusions at Avon (c.1983):



She also seems to have done a F8a+/8b whilst supposedly woefully unfit and is almost embarrassed to admit it.  Clearly hasn't quite got the hang of this blogging business yet!

[Fiend]

I stumbled upon this Hazel blogging about Once

Nice to see her thoughts on the route and the style in which she climbed it

Nice read, glad to hear something more about it after all the off-topic wittering on on this thread. She writes about it pretty well (i.e. takes the piss out of her dad a lot).

[RichK]

I saw that "Monkey do" DVD the other night which has some ace footage of HF. She sails up The Rainbow of Recalcitrance with consummate ease looking totally cool & confident. There's a quick chat at the top with her displaying modesty beyond her years. She then has a tussle with Gin Palace & try's soooooooo hard on clearly one of the hardest trad styli thrutch fests we have in't UK. Amazing efforts in States & SW as well. All very impressive from a 22 yr old!

....rapidly laying claim to being the UK's trad Queen. There's a gag in waiting there  

[Duma]

"Back in my Dad’s day (according to my Dad) head/redpoint tactics such as toproping, practising, tick marking, mock leading were for those climbers who were too rubbish to onsight or at least go ground up after a few tries. ‘Headpointing’ and ‘cheating’ for him and his friends were practically synonymous. Probably because anyone can do a route in 20 tries… right?"

Hazel's Dad top-roping Lost Illusions at Avon (c.1983):

Great blog, shark/thesiger can we get this sucked in to the pile?