[Fultonius]

What the gen on the starting holds of this problem?  We were up there yesterday and started sitting, with right hand in a dish/shallow pocket and left on the arete on the crimp rail. Is this too high?

Like this?



We were all initially very underwhelmed with Dow Crag bouldering, but after warming up we warmed to the problems and had a fun day.

[Fultonius]

[dave]

We were all initially very underwhelmed with Dow Crag bouldering, but after warming up we warmed to the problems and had a fun day.

Coincidentally we were there yesterday, but didn't try the Ribothing. Thought there's a few good standout things (Gene, the lowerstarts to this, Daggermouth, the Cove boulder warmups) but a lot of the stuff under the crag itself seemed a bit "meh". Hacienda looks a good feature and good moves, if you can ignore the fact that it's essentially an eliminate on the 7b crack.

Still, a good day out can be had there, nice and cool yesterday catching the breeze.

[Fultonius]

Gene was good, took me a few goes (kept dabbing!) and JB (the stag, we were on a stag weekend) got Red Clover sit which he was chuffed with - unfortunately a starting foothold broke which seemed to make the start a bit harder. I had a few goes on Hacienda, but didn't get very far up. Alex go it.##

We went to Ladstones yesterday which was a bit more concentrated, with some good lines. Artois was a stand out with everyone raving about it!

[dave]

Yeah looked like something had come off the RC sitter. Didn't really rate (Red)Clover personally, very hemmed in and possible to dab with toe/knee/back/arse on practically every move, kinda surprised it's that popular.

Did one that did the first two hard moves on RC sitter then went into Gene via some tricky moves and finished up that. Despite sounding like a linkup it seems to make best use of that bit of rock and isthe least dabby sub-8a sitstart.

Lad stones is great, rock is a bit "keen" in hot weather when we went last year, some top drawer stuff up there.