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#25 Re: Scottish Climbing&Bouldering
May 22, 2020, 04:28:54 pm
Will Nicola give us the Green light to get out?

Thank goodness she’s not called Roxanne.

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#26 Re: Scottish Climbing&Bouldering
May 22, 2020, 05:58:49 pm
 :lol:

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#28 Re: Scottish Climbing&Bouldering
May 23, 2020, 09:55:36 am
Thanks for that. I'm a little more comfortable about other venues now and it looks as if my 10 year and counting project at RITW will get some hammer. Just a pity that it's one of the midgiest venues in the NW. And I've pulled something in my neck.

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#29 Re: Scottish Climbing&Bouldering
May 23, 2020, 10:28:53 am
No problem

Yeah RITW definitely suffers from the Midge, Probably the main reason I have only been a handful of times.
Shame really.

Likewise,I think I feel more comfortable about getting out bouldering.
Time to get back up to Rooftown....
Well next weekend anyway.

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#30 Re: Scottish Climbing&Bouldering
May 23, 2020, 10:41:22 am
What's the proj Nige?

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#31 Re: Scottish Climbing&Bouldering
May 23, 2020, 11:37:09 am
Jeez Gaz if you really want to know here's a wee lockdown quiz for you
Watson described it as the worst problem in Wester Ross.
It's about  9 feet tall.
Despite it's meagre height it's still a stand start.
The sit would be very hard and very good.
It nestles in a  midge infested gloomy, viewless pit.
It's ungradeable. Probably.
But I've tried it for the best part of a decade with hardly any any progress.
It's a sort of compression thing but with balance instead of compression....
Yes, it's pissing down and I'm bored.

To scragrock:
Where's Rooftown, guessing Strathnairn way?

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#32 Re: Scottish Climbing&Bouldering
May 23, 2020, 12:22:09 pm
https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/rooftownruadha_nan_eallachan-25517

A wee venue along the loch from Ruthven that Stu and I have been developing for the last few years.

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#33 Re: Scottish Climbing&Bouldering
May 23, 2020, 12:59:48 pm
Cheers!
Now how far is local again?😁

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#34 Re: Scottish Climbing&Bouldering
May 23, 2020, 02:01:48 pm
Is it The One Percenter?

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#35 Re: Scottish Climbing&Bouldering
May 23, 2020, 02:41:43 pm
Indeed it is
I've actually done it a certain way but to paraphrase Pat Ament "could grasp the holds but not the problem".
By the way have you ever looked at the sit?
« Last Edit: May 23, 2020, 02:50:41 pm by sherlock »

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#36 Re: Scottish Climbing&Bouldering
May 23, 2020, 04:41:05 pm
I've not. Not even tried the original. It's often damp when I've been.

Love that place. Still got plenty to do there but suspect it'll be a while till I'm back. Fortunately I've still got a few things to do on the Easter Ross choss to keep me entertained. Sod lockdown, kids make getting out almost impossible!

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#37 Re: Scottish Climbing&Bouldering
May 23, 2020, 05:51:35 pm
I've not. Not even tried the original. It's often damp when I've been.


That's another of it's myriad attractions.

 

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