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#3225 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 01, 2020, 07:00:56 pm
In a slight change of pace...

Dani Andra develops a four pitch 8a 'Ocho Veranos con Bruna' in the Desfiladero de la Hermida, a huge gorge just east of the Picos de Europa. It gives a good flavour of the area that probably has more rock than Wales. If you don't fancy the epic approach, Rumenes has similar style single-pitch climbing 10 minutes from the road.


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#3226 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 02, 2020, 05:56:30 pm
I had never seen either consumed or shock of the new before now.  Watched them after watching Jim's video.  All proper simple climbing videos with some hard, some beautiful, some scary, and some crazy stuff.  Thanks all for sharing those!

More please?   :popcorn:

Ricky Bell has uploaded his old film Underdeveloped to his vimeo. Another great video

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#3227 Re: Quality chuffing videos...0
May 02, 2020, 06:14:23 pm
Sorry, I’ve got confused - who is Nan / Some Shit New Climbers? Because that’s a brilliant little film too...

Mark Rankine and Neil (can't remember his last name).
Neil Furniss. He had a great year just after he put the video together, Simba's Pride, Meshuggah, S Groove, Gigantic, Boom Bip, then lost interest. Came back briefly last winter and did The Joker. More into Dungeons and Dragons again now  :whistle:

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#3228 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 02, 2020, 07:01:32 pm
In a slight change of pace...

Dani Andra develops a four pitch 8a 'Ocho Veranos con Bruna' in the Desfiladero de la Hermida, a huge gorge just east of the Picos de Europa. It gives a good flavour of the area that probably has more rock than Wales. If you don't fancy the epic approach, Rumenes has similar style single-pitch climbing 10 minutes from the road.



Enjoyed that, he looked absolutely boxed trying to drill the hole from that kneebar. Drove through the area on the way to Naranjo but didn’t know what we were looking at. Great river for swimming down at the bottom.


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#3229 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 02, 2020, 07:12:22 pm
Enjoyed that, he looked absolutely boxed trying to drill the hole from that kneebar.

Don't know if there were subtitles or what they were like, but he was shouting down that the block was moving and he and the block might go flying together at any time...  :blink:
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#3230 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 03, 2020, 03:38:24 pm
Enjoyed that, he looked absolutely boxed trying to drill the hole from that kneebar.

Don't know if there were subtitles or what they were like, but he was shouting down that the block was moving and he and the block might go flying together at any time...  :blink:

When I was in Rodellar Andrada was cleaning and bolting a new route in the Piscineta. It had fixed ropes on. Dani was using a grigri and ascender to jug up the ropes but everytime he bounced up he would snap his head back violently. It took us a while to work out that he was pulling the slack through the grigri with his teeth! That and the fact the fixed ropes were rubbing in about 20 places without a rope protector in sight made us question his sanity  :o

The route i was trying was adjacent to his new route and after i fell off I dogged to the top. I was halfway through lowering off when it dawned on me that the big ramp I was going to alight onto was also where the massive chunks of rock that Dani was levering off with a hammer were exploding. After frantically getting Al to stop lowering me we both shouted at Dani trying to get his attention. He was completely engrossed in the cleaning work and deaf to the world. Eventually he looked up. The conversation went something like this:
Dani!
Que?
...la roca...uno momento?
Ah...perdon, eh?

As soon as i was clear the rocks started coming down again!


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#3231 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 03, 2020, 04:18:35 pm
The classic route-cleaning trundle vid:



I never use a rope protector when bolting new routes except at the top edge, usually my pack clipped to the rope. Can usually manage by isolating the rope into the bolts or gear as you go down. The higher risk activity is when scoping out new routes but not bolting. I’ve jugged back up more than a couple of times to find the sheath rubbed through to the core while I was scoping out routes. I have access to a few hundred rope protectors so should do better.

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#3232 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 03, 2020, 08:15:12 pm
The classic route-cleaning trundle vid:


 :o

When we were at Sutton and I'd just climbed Black Annis, John started to look at the direct finish. This was a few easy moves up from where I'd gone right to access a nice ramp - the issue being the huge damoclean block hanging over the edge of the crag like a diving board. The crag is perched on top of a cliff with a good drop into the clough below - which has a footpath running through it.
"Is there anyone down there, Will?"
"Errrr, I dunno. I can't see down there"

There was then a pause in which you could hear the cogs of John's brain trying to work out what the odds were of him hitting someone, and what might become of his life if he did.
The block hit some big trees on the way down and nearly took them out. The way their tops shook it was like Godzilla was walking through the clough.

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#3233 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 04, 2020, 08:43:56 pm


I quite liked this. Nice to know he’s still psyched out of his bonce, climbing into the night on what looks like a traversing link up similar to Brian at Ansteys.

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#3234 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 05, 2020, 07:52:17 am


I quite liked this. Nice to know he’s still psyched out of his bonce, climbing into the night on what looks like a traversing link up similar to Brian at Ansteys.

It's weird, that almost sounds like you're suggesting that Brian isn't a world class line at a world class crag.

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#3235 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 14, 2020, 02:28:05 pm


Enjoyed this! The Mellow lads put out some good stuff!

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#3236 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 14, 2020, 02:41:32 pm


I quite liked this. Nice to know he’s still psyched out of his bonce, climbing into the night on what looks like a traversing link up similar to Brian at Ansteys.

It's weird, that almost sounds like you're suggesting that Brian isn't a world class line at a world class crag.

 ;D You’ve got to be psyched for it is all I'm saying.

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#3237 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 14, 2020, 03:32:06 pm
Enjoyed this! The Mellow lads put out some good stuff!

Great, great route name too.

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#3238 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 14, 2020, 08:39:03 pm
Assorted warmups in Verdon


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#3239 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 15, 2020, 08:03:40 am
That's another great video in the series. 8b+ on the grey... ahh. Taking the crimp home is quite funny. I wonder what we'd say now?

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#3240 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 15, 2020, 09:10:40 am
Enjoyed that. JB now looks like an ageing matinee idol. Great story about Les Specialists: climbing is so much more fun when bitter rivalries are acknowledged.

Somehow I was last in the Verdon more than 8 years ago. It’s about time...

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#3241 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 15, 2020, 03:05:15 pm
That's the best of the series so far I think, excellent.

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#3242 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 15, 2020, 07:08:54 pm
Great story about Les Specialists: climbing is so much more fun when bitter rivalries are acknowledged.

I was surprised when I discovered how much bitterness there still is between the two groups alluded to. At least among some of the old protagonists. But JB seems very chill about it these days (and very chill in general, not only on film but when you are running into him at the crags as well).

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#3243 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 15, 2020, 09:03:23 pm
...and very chill in general, not only on film but when you are running into him at the crags as well.

https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=Humble%20Brag  ;D

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#3244 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 15, 2020, 09:41:09 pm
Chris says hi.

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#3245 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 16, 2020, 11:41:34 am
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#3246 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
May 28, 2020, 11:45:51 am
I'm looking forward to watching this when I get a chance. The trailer looked promising.


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#3247 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
June 09, 2020, 01:52:37 pm


Probably most of you have seen this already but I thought this was quite gripping: Ondra well out of his comfort zone on the Indian Creek offwidth Belly Full of Bad Berries.

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#3248 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
June 09, 2020, 02:02:38 pm
The Pertex one is good as a general film about a place I know very little, and some nice characters, but not an enormous amount of climbing. That which is shown is good footage though.

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#3249 Re: Quality chuffing videos...
June 09, 2020, 02:33:26 pm


Probably most of you have seen this already but I thought this was quite gripping: Ondra well out of his comfort zone on the Indian Creek offwidth Belly Full of Bad Berries.
I was going to post this but it was a bit lot OTT Black Diamond...

 

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