On Tuesday I completed this line I spotted a while back. It climbs the rising lip of the roof right of Razor Roof all the way from a sit start. It’s quite a long problem (18 or so hand moves), lovely moves all the way with a beefy crux at the start getting on and off a real nothing sloper. I think it’s a brilliant problem. Dare I say best traverse in the neighbourhood? I think I do dare. Leroy got it on camera so I might have a better FA vid than the usual shit (when he’s back from Spain).
Here’s a pic of him on the still tricky bit after the crux:
And here's a badly spliced shot of the whole roof:
The roof is also the home of four neglected Veale/Stokes problems listed in the older bouldering guides but omitted from later ones. I’ve always thought these looked decent problems which had dropped off the radar more due to run-off and situation under larches (they shed a carpet of fine needles every year) than due to poor climbing. The roof is all clean now and the top cleared back a bit so they should stay good for a while and dry much quicker. The central prob from a sitter using the weird blob is great. Haven’t tried the two on the right yet. Worth bringing a towel to thwack the pine needles away and dam and run-off.
