Parisella's Cave conditions reports (Read 547610 times)

steven82 · October 01, 2007, 04:16:51 pm

ok cheers, fingers crossed for it to be finished for this weekend then.

r-man · October 05, 2007, 09:58:14 pm

Any news?

Pantontino · October 06, 2007, 11:58:21 am

Doylo called this morning - he reckoned it was open again.

Doylo · October 07, 2007, 05:35:01 pm

she's open alright!

Pantontino · October 07, 2007, 08:12:11 pm

Only you Chris could make the removal of an access restriction sound vaguely rude!

Doylo · October 08, 2007, 10:23:36 am

well it gave me a boner being back on the orme!

n_man · October 08, 2007, 04:45:55 pm

Boning aside what were conditions like?? Dry?

andy_e · October 09, 2007, 04:37:30 pm

Boning whilst dry

n_man · October 09, 2007, 06:02:36 pm

Hard to bone when it's wet. Slipery holds and all that.

andy_e · October 09, 2007, 07:30:17 pm

What sort of boning are we talking here? Obviously not the same...

n_man · October 15, 2007, 10:47:19 pm

Half term next week and I would love some help as to whether it's worth the drive at the moment?

Pantontino · October 16, 2007, 11:17:53 pm

I was on the Ormes tonight (first time in ages, god it was good to be back!) - everything was dry, despite the fact that it rained this morning.

Monolith · October 31, 2007, 10:09:20 am

Totally boners yesterday am-pm.

superfurrymonkey · November 21, 2007, 09:14:47 pm

Sticky damp today like a moist pair of............ Pill box was soaked though

BenF · November 23, 2007, 12:11:19 pm

Anyone been down there today? Is it still sticky damp or just rank damp now? Likewise, if you've been that way, what's the state of Split Infinity and Dumbell Flyer?

Thanks.

Pantontino · November 23, 2007, 05:40:06 pm

It was so sunny here today I didn't bother with the Ormes: went up the Pass late afternoon and it was absolutely mint, just perfect. Thus I'm guessing that the Cave/SI will also be in good nick. Looks like rain tomorrow, so you haven't got much choice, unless you go to somewhere like Pantymwyn.

BenF · November 23, 2007, 09:20:55 pm

Thanks Simon, I was thinking that given the forecast the Orme would be the only real bet tomorrow and figured the recent dryish weather might give it a chance of being dryish there. Sunday looks well better so I may get out in the hills then.

As for Pantymwyn, there's not a hope of catching me down there ever again without a harness or perhaps a fleeting glance when running past. Pantymwyn and I are not good friends.

BenF · November 23, 2007, 10:02:55 pm

Oh and Monolith, I can't believe you just gave me positive karma for asking about Cave conditions. It's a momentous day in my climbing life. I won't look back... next you'll find me cleaning off Roadrunner cave then next I'll be "training for the board" by pulling on shitty crimps on some obscure problem amongst hundreds of quality lines that I won't go near.

a dense loner · November 24, 2007, 12:51:52 am

the only thing monolith knows about shitty crimps is nothing

BenF · November 24, 2007, 08:35:39 am

Bit harsh Dense, he knows more about crimps than slopers, that's for sure.

Monolith · November 24, 2007, 08:58:30 pm

Leave my fingers alone you frauds. If it was possible to fix Roadrunner Ben, I'd quit conventional living and employ full time art restoration-style tactics on it. Alas I'm told its not.

Dense -

Pantontino · November 25, 2007, 12:22:10 am

Quote from: Monolith on November 24, 2007, 08:58:30 pm

If it was possible to fix Roadrunner Ben, I'd quit conventional living and employ full time art restoration-style tactics on it. Alas I'm told its not.

Where there's a will, there's a way. All you'd need is a crowbar, a big pot if glue and some creative vision, and I'm sure that a stable climbing 'surface' could be established. Might be worth a punt? $:-\$ There is of course the possibility, that after all the effort access would be withdrawn (it was always pretty tenuous anyway), or that the crag would just collapse in a pile of rubble burying Monolith just as he completed the final slap on his most evil crimpfest creation.

BenF · November 25, 2007, 07:39:13 am

Quote from: Monolith on November 24, 2007, 08:58:30 pm

I'd quit conventional living

And what the fuck is conventional about living in a chalk filled, curry stained bedroom that is only accessible via a small gap under a campus board and usually also contains a lanky, grinning fool with his fingers stuck in an extra hot speciality Nor tandoori curry? That ain't 2.4 children and a Ford Focus...

Pantontino · November 25, 2007, 09:33:34 pm

Hey, don't knock the Ford Focus - a dead reliable and surprisingly nippy mobile - or the 2.4 kids, who can also be surprisingly nippy, when it suits them.

Cave was very dry this afty, even the sidepull on Lou Ferrino was completely drip free. Pretty cold when we first got there (about 3 ish), then suddenly, and strangely, got quite warm around 4 (incoming warm front?), resulting in some slippy redpoint busting greasiness. I got dumped on the deck a few times - it was the conditions, honest guvnor!

On the Roadrunner tip - I hear that Nodder may have already started to de-scale the crag. Like I said, where's there a will, there's a way.

superfurrymonkey · November 25, 2007, 10:47:19 pm

Definitely looked like someone`s been having a go at roadrunner when I went past on a double decker recently.