perfect conditions!!!!it's the season to be pulling... (Read 11290 times)

Paul B · November 03, 2006, 11:03:57 am

this may help:

I had a quick campus around on the start 'later' on this morning but my skin was just too damn sore to warrent a proper attempt, the block didn't seem to interfere with the lip traverse however the landing is very sketchy with some serious bouncing down the hill potential.

slackline · November 03, 2006, 12:06:04 pm

Quote from: Paul B on November 03, 2006, 11:03:57 am

I had a quick campus around on the start 'later' on this morning but my skin was just too damn sore to warrent a proper attempt

Given the thread in the news section I'm not surprised!!!!

bigphil · November 03, 2006, 01:05:37 pm

Yesterday was gowgeous. Had the day off and ticked two long standing nemisii and did a few others I'd not done at Eagle Tor. Conditions look good today too, though I am at work today. Bugger.

Paul B · November 03, 2006, 01:14:42 pm

if conditions hold, tomorrow looks really good from early on for all you people who are stuck in work today, I was paranoid yesterday that it wouldnt hold and next weeks slightly warmer predictions would ruin play.
I reckon sputnik deserves some team attention (i.e enough pads to fill the hole)?

Aussiegav · November 03, 2006, 03:37:53 pm

i just used one big pad under the traverse.just to make it level. then when ben turned up he put his under cleo's arete...
glad you like the look of it..let us know the opinion of grade..

Idol eyes · November 03, 2006, 08:54:00 pm

Me and Pete did a new route in the mountains near Olen, its called "Over the wall".
We basicly escaped from the confines that detained us, because the weather turned shit hot, and we got the feaver... our dutch boss would not let us out of his sight, because of the close proximity to the boozer...
so we escaped...

Nibile · November 07, 2006, 10:42:46 am

friday and saturday were perfect here.
two days under the project, absolutely alone in the wood.
complete silence, with only the mantra of the sequence in my head.
fell on the last hold, and i realized i was happy nonetheless.

success wasnt everything, i was feeling so peaceful and fullfilled, that finishing the problem would have added something, but not much. i didnt dare, nor feel, to scream or swear as i fell from the last move, it would have meant being unrespectful.

but that was saturday.
NOW ITS TIME TO FU*****ING DO IT.

fatboySlimfast · November 07, 2006, 01:18:28 pm

Just got back from an unbelievably hot burbage, it was fucking cooking. Burbage west was well warm even out of the sun

Paul B · November 07, 2006, 02:02:56 pm

you need to get up earlier,burbage north was freezing at 7 left at 9, stanage was ok till about 10.

Aussiegav · November 07, 2006, 04:39:08 pm

anybody repeated sputnik yet?

Blunk · November 09, 2006, 04:26:12 am

40 degrees warmer today than last week!!!! Grease, sweat and tears and no sends to be had.

I hate global warming.

Nibile · November 09, 2006, 08:40:43 am

if everything here goes well, in couple hours ill be pullin.
then tomorrow i leave for the dolomites!!!!
just a little bit of mountain setting before the snow!!!

Resonate · November 09, 2006, 01:27:08 pm

damn the weather was fine!!!

i sent a V7 arete at Easdon Tor on Dartmoor on my first visit, i've never done tha tgrade on granite before... pretty stoked really!

more cold weather plz...

Nibile · November 09, 2006, 05:07:16 pm

here i am at work again.
i must have posted in the wrong thread: poor poor conditions, incredibly humid, and almost 20°!!!!!!!!!!
unfinished business again.

richdraws · November 09, 2006, 06:05:42 pm

Oooh I like the cold I do. Drove down to Almscliff today, bagged me a steves wall and had a wander up to have a look at this Jess' roof.

Its quite stunning! I cant believe how long it is

I tried a few grittier problems today but its not quite cold enough yet. Bloody sunshine.

Nibile · November 09, 2006, 06:18:18 pm

no problems with hot where im going for the weekend

città dei sassi, under the sassolungo

Falling Down · November 09, 2006, 06:25:54 pm

Looks fantastic! Have a great trip

Nibile · November 09, 2006, 06:37:24 pm

i doubt it will be as sunny...
friction will be top, though.

fatneck · November 09, 2006, 08:34:06 pm

Quote from: Nibs

friction will be top, though

and that's what matters! Enjoy!

Aussiegav · November 19, 2006, 10:47:29 am

another great weekend. ask ben moon, top conditions, any one else had major success!!

Blunk · November 20, 2006, 02:52:55 am

No great success, but I did manage the crux on my project 5 times in a row, now just have to keep it together for the back slapping crossover move and the slightly rotten/lichenous/scary topout.

Thank god for doubled-up pads, I slipped out of a greasy sloper pocket unexpectedly and slammed hard, and I do mean hard from about 8 feet up onto my side. Whuff!

Nibile · November 20, 2006, 12:09:40 pm

i spent the saturday on the couch, ans the sunday on plastic (first comp of my life).
talk about english weather...

Dr T · November 20, 2006, 01:45:44 pm

Quote from: Nibile on November 20, 2006, 12:09:40 pm

the sunday on plastic (first comp of my life).

how'd you get on???

Nibile · November 20, 2006, 01:51:16 pm

i did well and got 4th at the regionals, 7th overall. (and NO, WE WERE NOT 7)
problem is:
i was way stronger than those who came behind me, and way weaker than those who won...
also:
a climber whos really much stronger than me missed three holds on a problem he could have done with me attached to his back, and was out for this.
thats only plastic.
oh and i won a boreal backpack directly from the 80s. square and rigid just to spoil your back...