Easy mate. Yeah I have done that back in the day (fa I think Ben Bransby but could be wrong). My memory is terrible but I stuck either to / slightly left of the arête. Can’t remember if we sat start…I think we did but could easily have been from standing. Glad you found it though it’s quality
I asked Tom Peckitt about it, and he said;QuoteEasy mate. Yeah I have done that back in the day (fa I think Ben Bransby but could be wrong). My memory is terrible but I stuck either to / slightly left of the arête. Can’t remember if we sat start…I think we did but could easily have been from standing. Glad you found it though it’s quality
Oh yes you climbed that whilst you were walking the dog in your wellies from a sit start. Flash.
Quote from: Bradders on February 22, 2023, 12:31:09 pmI asked Tom Peckitt about it, and he said;QuoteEasy mate. Yeah I have done that back in the day (fa I think Ben Bransby but could be wrong). My memory is terrible but I stuck either to / slightly left of the arête. Can’t remember if we sat start…I think we did but could easily have been from standing. Glad you found it though it’s quality Interesting. I remember doing an arete/prow over right of Caley prob in '98 or '99. I don't remember much about it other than I thought it was E3 6b and I went up the arete. As an E3 I very much doubt I did a sit start. I wasn't sure if it was a f.a. or not. I know 100% I didn't give it a name like Finches Fuel. I was prob gonna call it S&M with Mistress Annabelle (if it was a fa, a name to do with a flyer my dad had sent to us in the Leeds house that he had picked up in a phone box when working in London, we stuck it to the front of our Yorkshire grit guide over the photo of Dunne. Mistress Annabelle had a long list of interests...) obv this was a pre pad ascent prob done without abbing it first to clean etc so it felt more like an E route than boulder. Scottish John might have been there. This problem may or may not be the same as what I climbed, I've never found mention of the prow in a guide before or found it again in person. If it helps add to the list of slightly inaccurate stories that I have heard about myself then can I add the following fake quote from John about it:Quote from: Scottish JohnOh yes you climbed that whilst you were walking the dog in your wellies from a sit start. Flash.Just to be doubly clear I remember almost nothing of use about what I did or if this is even the same thing.
A suitably vague reply Ben, they were indeed heady times, if it helps I can’t remember Scottish john even being around in 98/99 he didn’t turn up til early 00’s in my equally vague recollection of back then. I can however write off you doing it whilst walking the dog as klem defo wasn’t around back then…. You were probably picking mushrooms and yes I’m sure you probably did flash it.
Quote from: northern yob on February 22, 2023, 01:30:40 pmA suitably vague reply Ben, they were indeed heady times, if it helps I can’t remember Scottish john even being around in 98/99 he didn’t turn up til early 00’s in my equally vague recollection of back then. I can however write off you doing it whilst walking the dog as klem defo wasn’t around back then…. You were probably picking mushrooms and yes I’m sure you probably did flash it.Maybe I was wondering around picking mushrooms and an arete appeared at just the right time. I put down my bag of shrooms, squeaked my wellies and ascended in a state of heightened consciousness. Holds appearing just where they were needed... I vaguely recall sitting with you and Jvan listening to Jose (in Tuolumne in early 2000s) while he described soloing somewhere and a hand crack appearing and saving his life. He went back there later and the hand crack didn't exist. Jose made a logical argument why this may have actually been the case. ps I have what is, I imagine, your copy of The Homeless Interpretation of Quantum Mechanics by Chongo and Jose here. Never made it to the end.
Scottish John showed me 3 or 4 different ways to do Pebble Wall (of which i could do 2) when I lived in Leeds and I left at the end of 1999, so he was definitely about.
I'm not sure any of this is helping Hayden...Scottish John wasn't with me when I made a naked (except wellies) onsight flash (literally) whilst tripping on shrooms of the 3* 7C S&M with Mistress Annabelle sit start. I made up the bit about John being there to add credibility to an otherwise dubious story. Obv, as Northern Yob points out, Klem wasn't born yet so I wasn't walking the dog and as much as N.Y. recalls a time of heavy drug consumption I was actually a bit tame so left the shroom picking/bouldering combo to Tetler. My track record with mind altering drugs and climbing (stairs) is fairly mixed. I've no idea why I was at that bit of Caley and why I was on my own. If it even was Caley. The only bit I have a firm memory of is Mistress Annabelle. Scottish John didn't turn up until later. Maybe SA Chris is thinking of Wobble John, who although not Scottish had done all the Munro's by the age of 5 so may have seemed Scottish and would def have been able to do Pebble Wall many different ways. Probably involving a heel.Scottish John appeared when I gave him a lift back from Caley (a different time to the whole S&M saga) and I invited him in for a cup of tea. He didn't leave for 3 years.
Maybe SA Chris is thinking of Wobble John, who although not Scottish had done all the Munro's by the age of 5 so may have seemed Scottish and would def have been able to do Pebble Wall many different ways. Probably involving a heel.
