[Dingdong]

I've just ripped and made Winter Sessions available to watch on YouTube. Took some digging to find someone with a copy! It'll take a while for higher res to process but its there in the meantime. Enjoy 

[Fiend]

ID the UKBers, in order, using only nicknames, is a good one for that.

[Wellsy]

"Mastery" is a bit of mastery in of itself, brilliant bouldering film. Great watch, well done to Wedge as ever!

[Fiend]

ID the UKBers, in order, using only nicknames, is a good one for that.

I've just seen that I'm in it! And I never knew.

[MischaHY]

New wedge doc with Aidan 

Some interesting revelations here. My main takeaway was that Aidan prefers Bing maps. Also the footage of the quasi-legendary 'that thing on Helvellyn' as mentioned in multiple Aidan/Varian podcasts with foreboding end-shot was exciting.

[edshakey]

Some interesting revelations here. My main takeaway was that Aidan prefers Bing maps. Also the footage of the quasi-legendary 'that thing on Helvellyn' as mentioned in multiple Aidan/Varian podcasts with foreboding end-shot was exciting.

Bing maps also has free OS maps, which does make it very useful.

Agreed, the end shot of that big overhang was very exciting, but it's not near Helvellyn so that one must still be unknown to most of us!

[Will Hunt]

New wedge doc with Aidan 

Some interesting revelations here. My main takeaway was that Aidan prefers Bing maps.

Don't forget footage of him baking a loaf of bread. Massive call-out to McLeod 

[sdm]

We use satellite images for site locations at work. Google is the default for urban environments but Bing often has higher quality, more recent images for rural areas.

Similar with street view: Google has covered much more of the country overall, but Bing is more likely to have covered tiny single track roads and access tracks with dodgy surfaces.

[jwi]

[Duma]

Excellent

[teestub]

Awesome!

[Wellsy]

Cracking vid

[Will Hunt]

Is this boulder deep in snow from autumn till spring? There must be a reason he only tries it in summer!

[jwi]

late August is Autumn at that latitude.

[jwi]

I mean, Rovaniemi is where Santa Claus lives.

[teestub]

Started going a lot better for him when he stopped trying slopey heel hooks in Solutions 😄

[jwi]

Jani's insta is worth checking out for the purest ab wheel roll outs

https://www.instagram.com/p/BtbLR3hhWod/

[Fiend]

Legendary feats of ab rolling.

Also top swearing in the compression video 

[Kingy]

Enjoyed this one from Jason Kehl, 'Real Climbing', no numbers, no games!

Difficult to speculate the grade of his new climb but looks at least V13 from my armchair

[Fiend]

No numbers, no games - but we gotta speculate on the grade anyway 

Good to see JK back in action with as strong a skullet as ever.

[Bonjoy]

We use satellite images for site locations at work. Google is the default for urban environments but Bing often has higher quality, more recent images for rural areas.

Similar with street view: Google has covered much more of the country overall, but Bing is more likely to have covered tiny single track roads and access tracks with dodgy surfaces.

For boulder hunting I cross reference Google Earth pro, Bing maps and the BGS geology map viewer.
You can scroll back through historic aerial images on GE, which is really good as sometimes the lighting is wrong or there's too much veg to see the boulders in one image alone. Good for finding blocks in forestry areas too if you can find imagery from when the trees have just been cleared. There is a ruler tool too which allows you to measure rocks. This has proved pretty accurate when I've compared to facts on the ground.
As mentioned Bing is for the OS map layer which can be toggled with aerial imagery. It has a much better UI than trying to view OS maps on other sites (e.g. streetmap).
The BGS map will tell you the surface rock type of a place. Good for identifying likely places to look and finding additional outcrops of a known good rock type.

[Johnny Brown]

If you've got the OS maps subscription that's a third source of good quality aerial imagery. The 3D view in the browser app is really good, much better than google earth at rendering the landscape as a whole, although foreground detail depends on the imagery.

[r-man]

Www.Geograph.org.uk can also be handy for photos of an area. I've found a few new crags using it. Plus the site use OS maps which you can navigate around.

[r-man]

Haven't watched yet, but looks promising...

[andy popp]

Yup. Enjoyed that.