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#25 Re: Beta in guidebook descriptions
September 27, 2020, 11:56:59 am
could it be as simple as Overhanging Arete on Cyrn Las?

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#26 Re: Beta in guidebook descriptions
September 27, 2020, 12:07:12 pm
Could be but isn't  :tease:

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#27 Re: Beta in guidebook descriptions
September 27, 2020, 12:20:45 pm
could it be as simple as Overhanging Arete on Cyrn Las?

The jugs on Overhanging Arete are all too obvious from below and the PW description is rather prosaic: “...follow a line of holds to the huge jug on the aręte. Pull up to another huge jug...”

The father of all jugs is to be found on a much lower altitude crag.

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#28 Re: Beta in guidebook descriptions
September 27, 2020, 12:45:18 pm
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(My favourite is a Rockfax topo line for a Wharncliffe Chimney where even the smallest infant couldn't squeeze through where the topo line indicates.
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My favourite is a Rockfax Topo that draw the line for a multipitch on the wrong mountain. On a wall with no recorded routes.

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#29 Re: Beta in guidebook descriptions
September 27, 2020, 12:52:15 pm
The Axe?

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#30 Re: Beta in guidebook descriptions
September 27, 2020, 03:26:03 pm
The full Paul Williams spray-down

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blindly grope round the ridiculously overhanging arete for the 'Father of all Jugs'

From the classic Snowdonia Rock Climbs 1982 edition. Ditched most of my old guidebooks when I emigrated; never parting with that one.

Name the route.

Samurai Groove at Hyll Drem?

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#31 Re: Beta in guidebook descriptions
September 27, 2020, 06:21:18 pm
We have a winner  :beer2: :dance1:

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#32 Re: Beta in guidebook descriptions
September 27, 2020, 06:35:32 pm
Winning route too.



I'd say the amount of beta revealing that jug to go for isn't too much, it's still completely "out there" for a roadside crag route.

 

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