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M - Kilnsey with Tim P. Awful weather. Wandered up Sticky Wicket to warm up...hands froze and opened up a dry split which started bleeding everywhere. Lowered off a bolt or two from the top.
Quote from: Bradders on May 09, 2021, 09:10:34 pmM - Kilnsey with Tim P. Awful weather. Wandered up Sticky Wicket to warm up...hands froze and opened up a dry split which started bleeding everywhere. Lowered off a bolt or two from the top. Working Comedy with Tim P.... not good for one's sense of self-worth! I've seen Tim eat a pork pie for lunch (with black pudding under the crust, no less!) and then idly campus Comedy, clipping as he went, as a warm-down and to work out his frustration with conditions on All Out!
Less inspired by Sticky Wicket. Bit of a crap wandering line. Maybe it was just because I couldn't feel my fingers and was bleeding everywhere though.
Quote from: Bradders on May 09, 2021, 10:00:31 pmLess inspired by Sticky Wicket. Bit of a crap wandering line. Maybe it was just because I couldn't feel my fingers and was bleeding everywhere though.Climbing Sticky Wicket is a thoroughly unpleasant experience, but that's why it's a power-stamina classic - Raindogs for the 7b climber (to me, the definition of a power-stamina route is one that leaves you with arms aflame and vomiting your lungs). Admittedly, it's less pure now, after Seb collapsed part of it and created a big new side-pull, while bolting the horribly misbegotten LBW. Have you tried Wysiwyg? That's more of a boulderer's route - short and crimpy - and there are a variety of extensions if you want to increase the calibre.
rehab work on FB, 3x7/53 front 3 half crimp hangs on 18mm edge.
Box steps for 30 mins. Walked 10km. W - Box-steps for 45 mins. T - Appropriately tired and sore: felt like I’d climbed a big route in the Dolomites the previous day. 10km walk..