[webbo]

nigel. what is the problem just left of the v4/v6 on the lowest boulder.its the left arete of the overhang or the right arete of the smooth face. :?:

[webbo]

yes. i now have realised its spelt mungrisedale.

[Nigel]

Hey web-slinger, hope you had a good day.  

I know exactly the problem you mean, and I have done it from a stand up, unfortunately I can't remember how hard I thought it was! (It was a while since I last went). I can remember it had a couple of slopey holds. And the sitter looked like it had a couple of crimps, V8-ish (visual grade guesstimator!!!)

What do you reckon?

P.S. We're not slack, its just that Lakesbloc aren't doing a topo to Carrock so we don't *have* to make up grades!

[tc]

If you mean the nose from a sitter and finishing left - V6. The one to the right (big jug to start then pull over on crimps) is V3.
Why isn't Lakesbloc doing the business for Carrock Fell?

[Nigel]

Looks like my visual grade guesstimator needs recalibrating!

Lakesbloc aren't doing a topo because North Lakes legend Jim Arnold and co. are busting one out. Obviously they know far more about the crag and are still developing things as far as I know.

[tc]

If the pace of development is anything like the pace of the information flow...I've seen continents drift faster :wink:  Surely it would be an idea to get some kind of interim topo on t'interweb for those who are less well-informed than the locals? This would also have the additional advantage of diverting attention away from the soon-to-be polished classics on the three boulders at the northern end.
You sure these boys aren't in league with the evil Ripofffax empire? :evil:

[webbo]

it looks like i've a choice either your v8+,nige :D or tc's v6 :cry: .it took me loads more goes to do than 3'v7's i did at the roaches 2 days before.i failed to do it twice from standing before i grovelled my way up it from a sitter on a last gasp attempt

[Nigel]

Now now, I said V8-ISH, V8+ is a special grade I keep in reserve and don't bring out that often  

Anyway, it was a guess, I ain't even tried it so I would listen to TC. Mind you, at V6 maybe you should stick your fingers in your ears - "La lalalalaLALALA..."

[tc]

If that's the same "Webbo" I remember from the Stoney Caff (isolated triangles on the Formica table tops  :wink: ) scene back in the late 70s (the guy who once famously blacked out an entire American town by driving a car into an electricity sub station !) I'm not surprised you found the grit grades a piece of piss by comparison. I do, too. And if not, well - welcome to North Cumbria  :twisted:

[Bubba]

the guy who once famously blacked out an entire American town by driving a car into an electricity sub station

Hang on, I've met this bloke! Weird, I remember him telling me about it and the horrendous amount that was paid out in insurance. But I'm pretty sure it was at a bike track day at Cadwell Park - same bloke? Or urban myth  :wink:

Was the guy a biker?

[webbo]

it was a trailer park.

[webbo]

as i've never been to cadwell park,does this mean there is someone going around pretending to be me. how sad
i can't  remember about the insurance but i often wonder how long the statute of limitations lasts in utah :wink:

[Bubba]

He was in a lorry apparantly - weird, I suppose it *could* have happened twice, either that or a gobshite.

[webbo]

i suppose our paths may of crossed else where. i hung around sheffield and lived in leeds till 84.when i moved to the armpit of the known universe hull.
still got across to sheffield to see big bob of big bob's bazzer fame every now and again.
i seem to be there every other weekend now :D

[Bubba]

A bit before my time Webbo - I didn't move to Sheff until '86 and the guy I met at Cadwell was in about 2000.