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New hard thing on Am Basteir
June 09, 2016, 10:47:16 pm
Thought this was worth a mention. Got to be one of the most stunning lines on UK mountain rock. How as Dave Mac (and the rest) not picked this one off yet?!

http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=70507

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#1 Re: New hard thing on Am Basteir
June 10, 2016, 08:02:51 am
Would suit Maccy-D well, no chance of dabbing on that.

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#2 Re: New hard thing on Am Basteir
June 10, 2016, 08:22:43 am
Great line and looked like cool moves too. Almost - for a split second - made me want to use a rope again *banishes such twisted thoughts from mind*

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#3 Re: New hard thing on Am Basteir
June 10, 2016, 09:04:03 am
Not exactly roadside is it!

I wasn't aware his hard thing on the Cioch had been repeated and downgraded. That's a scary looking thing.

http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/c.php?i=186583

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#4 Re: New hard thing on Am Basteir
June 10, 2016, 09:36:30 am
Great bit of naming, route looks pretty good too.

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#5 Re: New hard thing on Am Basteir
June 10, 2016, 09:58:47 am
Not exactly roadside is it!

I wasn't aware his hard thing on the Cioch had been repeated and downgraded. That's a scary looking thing.

http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/c.php?i=186583

Seems like you get a grade or two for the walk-in. We did the Highlander to the right which would be steady E4 on any grit crag.

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#6 Re: New hard thing on Am Basteir
June 10, 2016, 10:11:00 am
And I suspect Am Bhasteir is a bigger hike than Sron na Ciche.

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#7 Re: New hard thing on Am Basteir
June 10, 2016, 10:52:29 am
we were discussing the line of chalked holds on the roof lip on Saturday whilst setting off on the VDiff (!) to the R as part of our Cuillin Ridge traverse..  turns out is was as hard as it looked

(although the bigger news was perhaps us two boulderers managing the traverse!   :o )

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#8 Re: New hard thing on Am Basteir
June 10, 2016, 11:02:09 am
we were discussing the line of chalked holds on the roof lip on Saturday whilst setting off on the VDiff (!) to the R as part of our Cuillin Ridge traverse.

I don't remember the Tooth presenting any major difficulties compared to the horrendous TD Gap

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#9 Re: New hard thing on Am Basteir
June 10, 2016, 11:06:00 am
I don't remember the Tooth presenting any major difficulties compared to the horrendous TD Gap
Sorry nope, I meant the E8 looked hard not the VDiff...

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#10 Re: New hard thing on Am Basteir
June 10, 2016, 11:40:18 am
Not exactly roadside is it!

I wasn't aware his hard thing on the Cioch had been repeated and downgraded. That's a scary looking thing.

http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/c.php?i=186583

Seems like you get a grade or two for the walk-in. We did the Highlander to the right which would be steady E4 on any grit crag.

Nice work, looks like good climbing. Does that mean Jules Line's route in CSD is only E4 then? (just about the remotest hard route in Scotland I can think of!)

http://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/c.php?i=393484

 

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