When I did the FA of Ovine, I used the hold that Bonjoy is talking about, and not the undercut, which was wet and muddy. So the fact that the undercut has come off makes no odds. The lower hold is a bit less positive, but pinchy, and solid.My sitter on the RHS of cave is now called Bovine, plus done a bit of reshuffling on Peak District Bouldering. I think one of the problems on there doesn't exist - couldn't see a way of deleting it.
It was still there at 17:00 when I did mutton busting! Hope I didn't result in its break as I did use it.For reference, I did do mutton busting but with a different sequence to the norm. Started on the two beaks, went to the horrible pocket with LH. Then instead of rolling over to the sloper I put a Egyptian in (left knee dropped) and went again with left hand to the side pull crimp as a pinch! Maybe useful for the shorter folk as the other way felt super hard for me!Hope it's a legit way!
Not sure you mean the same hold Ru. By underneath I meant literally touching/obscured by the now deceased bit of rock. I think you might mean the pinchy sidepull about a foot lower. Either way the holdloss is I think an improvement and it doesn't change the difficulty one way or the other.
I saw the video on your Instagram - how you did it is fine, but it starts lower down, with RH on a crimp
I love limestone, no one does anything properly. Go to crag x with mason you can't do something one way go with welford you can't do it that way then go with someone else and you're on the wrong bloody problem! I reckon 70-80% of claims on 9a.boner are invalid
The day Yorkshire finds some limestone bouldering (or someone tries to write up Kilnsey bouldering for starters) is the day you have the same bollocks. It’s a limestone thing not a Peak thing. Crag X is an anomaly brought about by the long standing veto on documentation. Word of mouth = Chinese whispers. I wont mention Almscliff.
So where is Griff's Buttress? Someone once described it to me, but I can't picture it. Is it on the opposite side of the valley to Fossil Wall etc?