[andy popp]

The subtle line of holds and features up the wall about six foot left of Harmers Arete in the roadside quarry. This stunning highball is the best bouldering first ascent I've done in Cheshire; totally independent, continuously interesting climbing, great varied holds, excellent rock, stays dry and clean, a clean solid top-out, and a distinct dose of spice towards the top.

[Bonjoy]

Good skills. I assume this is the one mentioned in the other thread. 

[Fiend]

  sounds good youth.

[Will Hunt]

It would be great to try this sometime, Andy. How high is high? How many pads would you say is a healthy number?

P.S. Very well done! 

[Ally Smith]

Good skills Andy - it looked harder than 7A+ when i spotted you on it!

[SA Chris]

Pics? I assume it's a modest estimate of grade.

Well done Andy.

[GCW]

I think it's great that OAPs still have the enthusiasm to put stuff up   

Nice one.

[Johnny Brown]

Fine effort, keen to get over again soon. No idea on the grade but it sounds a bit low given your pedigree and the effort! The done thing in font at least seems to be to add a bit to the grade for high problems...

[andy popp]

Thanks. Yes, this is the one discussed in the other thread. I was very pleased to do it. I really think its 3*

The grade is possibly soft if anything. I haven't been climbing at all well this year. More importantly I found a better sequence for the top half since Ally spotted me on it; same holds just different hands etc. This has definitely dropped it at least a notch. Given the height 7A+ could be fair.

Will, its at least 25', possibly a touch more. I fell off the last move once and maybe three times just below that, always with at least two pads and mostly with three. I definitely felt the falls. I had three pads when I did it.

[tomtom]

Well done Andy - your look of relief at the end was infectious

RE; Grading, having tried the bottom part of it - it feels like a 6C into a 7A/+ move (I'm then stuck but I've not tried it on a rope ) - which then looks like its another 7A/+ move up to a fluffable but easier top two moves. Its about 6/7m high...

Grade calculators do your stuff...

[Stubbs]

Nice one Andy, sounds great, any sort of media - photos, video, interpretive dance, descriptive haiku?

[Wood FT]

Well done Andy - your look of relief at the end was infectious

RE; Grading, having tried the bottom part of it - it feels like a 6C into a 7A/+ move (I'm then stuck but I've not tried it on a rope ) - which then looks like its another 7A/+ move up to a fluffable but easier top two moves. Its about 6/7m high...

Grade calculators do your stuff...

E6 6c

[Sloper]

V4 R? 

[Pantontino]

Nice one Andy, sounds amazing!

[Nibile]

 
Your success is surely due to your visit in Siena!
 

[Fiend]

Well done Andy - your look of relief at the end was infectious

RE; Grading, having tried the bottom part of it - it feels like a 6C into a 7A/+ move (I'm then stuck but I've not tried it on a rope ) - which then looks like its another 7A/+ move up to a fluffable but easier top two moves. Its about 6/7m high...

Grade calculators do your stuff...

E6 6c

Hah, was just about to ask for a likely old skool grade 

[andy popp]

Your success is surely due to your visit in Siena!
 

The power of Lore, by osmosis.

[galpinos]

Where's the photo?

[tomtom]

I'll try and take some tomorrow afternoon if I get out there...

[andy popp]

I've got a photo of the line on my phone but its never going to look like anything but a dark, boring flat wall.

[T_B]

I like dark flat walls!

Good work 

[steveri]

Great stuff. I kept looking at that other thread disappointed with no news! Looks a great (non) line and you were looking pretty close last time I last saw you. I love the way it looked very possible when J Dawes was on it last year, then became an entirely imaginary line in the winter with no chalk ...and then reverted to slowly revealing its secrets and actual holds again this year.

[andy popp]

See, I said it was a boring flat wall.

[Will Hunt]

I spent a perfect couple of hours in Haydn's Quarry this morning with Andy. Andy showed me this wall and it looked completely blank and featureless (typical Cheshire then!).
After he gave it an ab and a brush, the line came to life and he talked me up it with a stream of perfect beta, so this is perhaps the second ascent?

Locals! Sort your acts out! 
This is, without question, a flawless wall climb of the utmost perfection. I can't think that any of the problems I ever did at Pex in my youth match this in terms of quality. It does not deserve neglect. The quarry is dry and the holds are chalked. Get to it.

[B0405413]

How high is this problem? Will it be reet with two mats and no spotters?