[dontfollowme]

Any ideas on how long before those who posted a coupon receive theirs through the post?

I posted mine Tuesday and got the guide today! It looks great so far and its numbered and signed!

[tatanka]

Which grading system do they adopted in the new guide :?:

[dave]

font

[tatanka]

I was thinking they were using the Vgrade...I got it wrong

[fatneck]

Just want to offer my heartfelt thanks to all involved, just recieved my copy through t' post and am going to settle down on the bog with a large mug of coffee and no one to distract me for the next two hours...
(would have offered a few "worthy" smilies but the home computer is shit and I need to drool over the photo's and plan tick lists and such)

[a dense loner]

too busy lookin good

[Pantontino]

Fantastic effort Ru (and Jon) - a batch of the guides arrived in V12 Outdoor today and I was straight down there to check it out.

I left a copy with Mark - Matrix 10 - Lynden (the designer for the N Wales guide) for an hour this afty whilst I was in a meeting and he came back singing its praises.

Hope to road test it soon. yip, yip, yip...

[Bubba]

Just got mine in the post - thanks Jon & Ru

First impressions it looks superb - a fine effort !

[dave]

i can't believe i've gotta wait for me birthday to get one. muthaz.

I'm sure its ever bit as bo as what everyone is making out. Perhaps even more bo.

[squeek]

Received my guide yesterday and subsequently spent a lot of the evening looking through it.  It is excellent.  The descriptions, comments, pictures, layout and presentation are all great and I look forward to using it (even if I don't really understand the grades ).  A lot of time has gone into this guide and it shows.  So a very big congratulations to Rupert and John.  

I'm just worried about wrecking it now, I don't usually look after my guides so well.

[Graeme]

Well I'm off for my dinner now to have a read and comprise a new tick list.

I can't wait, woo hoo. Hope  I don't get tuna salad all over it.

[Stu Littlefair]

This guide is nothing short of a revelation. A revelation I tell you.

The ticklist at the back appears to be selective, i.e it only includes the best problems out of a selective guide. Despite this there are 210 or so problems harder than 7b in the ticklist.

I have climbed a piffling 47, which was a bit of a blow to the self-image I have as a bit of a peak master, I can tell you. I'm gonna ship in a job-lot of extra skin, and go ticking  :x

[moose]

received my copy yesterday - an absolutely fantastic effort with an appealing,  clear and stylish layout.  Good photographs too - moved one of my workmates (a rowing coach and amateur photographer) to remark on the skills of the snappers and declare that he can now see why I boulder - high praise indeed (though as he's bad with heights his approval may just be due to the diminutive size of some of the problems).  Now I've just got to get down to the Peak more than a couple of times a year!

[Bonjoy]

by - jubawix on - 11:21 Sat
In reply to Jon Barton: Great book but why you got the party people in the photo's, mostly of there head on drugs 'floating up there man'.  

:?:  :?:  

[fatneck]

:?  :roll:

[tommytwotone]

just got mine too - cheers Ru & co, top notch. Will have to buy another one to keep in the house 'for best' though!

[Stubbs]

Very fresh style, looks better than some of the coffee table books i own... that is until i leave it in my mat and it gets covered in mud.

[Ru]

Thanks for all the positive replies everyone!  :D

[nik at work]

Got mine yesterday (quick service, only sent off the order form on monday - nice)

Good looking and loads of info, shame I don't live in sheff any more.

Grades look quite stingy, which is a refreshing change...

[Sloper]

How's the building going, we're off to spain tomorrow but need to get out to Hugencroft, when are you goign to FOnt this year?

[nik at work]

Building going well (if slow). Hopefully we will have a suitable area for guests to camp in in the next couple of weeks so anytime you fancy hugencroft let me know.
Font is the week from the 12th March, just don't know exactly which days we will be there. I'll let you know.

Enjoy spain.

Back on topic:

My opinion of the guide hasn't changed since this morning. It is a good thing, huzzah, huzzah, huzzah...

[Sloper]

I'll be in Ireland, so have a good one.

[tommytwotone]

Been giving it a read today, only just found the SCIENCE section - and I thought I was good at/liked aretes, seems I've got a way to go...

been lacking motivation lately but gotta say I'm hyper-psyched after poring over the guide - here's hoping for a decent day's weather on Sunday so I can use it in anger!

[dave]

bo - got the guide today - mad props to Rupizzle for laying the shizzle down, bad boy style.

Glad to see that out of the Dyno list theres only 3 I ain't done. One of those i've nearly hung, one i've never even been to the crag and the other is unclimbed by anybody. Where i come from thats a result. Any advance on 7?  Selecta.

its proper bo, good effort to all concerned. noticed GO West is in the graded list twice. Other mistake is where it says the submergance is 7c and 7b+ for the tall it should say "7b+ and for the shorties heres the worlds smallest violin".

Thats is all.

[Ru]

Yeah, well, Go West is in twice on purpose.

And I've ticked everything in the traverses list.

So there.