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#6875 Re: YYFY!!!
June 14, 2018, 06:03:15 pm
Reeeesult

May miss the TT but he gets to pit crew at the classic, let the good times roll...

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#6876 Re: YYFY!!!
June 15, 2018, 08:38:44 am
This is getting beyond exciting.

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#6877 Re: YYFY!!!
June 29, 2018, 10:12:33 am
so a bit of a YYFY for me, second week in a row that I've managed to go climbing (after a year and a half break) albeit indoors at the depot after dislocating my toe last year and de-gloving it in the process, then messing up my knee and achilles as a result, then messing it it further skiing (falling on rails) this year.
Did I feel fat incredibly weak and out of shape? Yes, but was I actually dragging my fat frame up a wall and enjoying it? Yes, yes fucking yes.

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#6878 Re: YYFY!!!
June 29, 2018, 11:24:08 am
How did you deglove your toe while dislocating it??

YYFY, got out on SUP on Loch of Skene yesterday morning before work. Only 10 mins from work, and I was warm even without a shirt on. If was like glass, and just me and the swans out. Sublime.

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#6879 Re: YYFY!!!
June 29, 2018, 01:01:32 pm
I was doing karate and it ended up sidewise and dislocated so far out that the skin split in a large ring around the bottom of the toe.

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#6880 Re: YYFY!!!
July 04, 2018, 08:43:03 am
Over 10 years ago, in October 2007, I went to Almscliff for the first time. It was a misty day; we didn't have a guide; I started up Western Front thinking it was Great Western. I cottoned on after the roof section and lowered from the inverted Y.
Over the years I had a further 3 goes, only thinking to dog around and figure out the crux on the last of these.
Last night, as England went to a World Cup penalty shoot out, I climbed the Western Front of Almscliff. As I pulled over the top, the jubilant screams from the nearby farm confirmed victory after the best of 5.

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#6881 Re: YYFY!!!
July 04, 2018, 10:09:23 am
Over 10 years ago, in October 2007, I went to Almscliff for the first time. It was a misty day; we didn't have a guide; I started up Western Front thinking it was Great Western. I cottoned on after the roof section and lowered from the inverted Y.
Over the years I had a further 3 goes, only thinking to dog around and figure out the crux on the last of these.
Last night, as England went to a World Cup penalty shoot out, I climbed the Western Front of Almscliff. As I pulled over the top, the jubilant screams from the nearby farm confirmed victory after the best of 5.

Does this mean you like football now?

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#6882 Re: YYFY!!!
July 04, 2018, 12:50:20 pm
Over 10 years ago, in October 2007, I went to Almscliff for the first time. It was a misty day; we didn't have a guide; I started up Western Front thinking it was Great Western. I cottoned on after the roof section and lowered from the inverted Y.
Over the years I had a further 3 goes, only thinking to dog around and figure out the crux on the last of these.
Last night, as England went to a World Cup penalty shoot out, I climbed the Western Front of Almscliff. As I pulled over the top, the jubilant screams from the nearby farm confirmed victory after the best of 5.

Does this mean you like football now?

I'm making an exception for the World Cup.

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#6883 Re: YYFY!!!
July 07, 2018, 06:44:02 am
Did Turbulence at Woodwell yesterday. First of the grade and my complete anti style.

Year goal of 7c done  :strongbench:

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#6884 Re: YYFY!!!
July 07, 2018, 07:52:29 am
Nice one Alex - where’s that? (Turbulence)

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#6885 Re: YYFY!!!
July 07, 2018, 08:05:34 am
Nice one Alex - where’s that? (Turbulence)

I did some googling :) always searching out a suitable 7C to work on... :)

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#6886 Re: YYFY!!!
July 07, 2018, 07:08:44 pm
Nice one Alex - where’s that? (Turbulence)

Cheers Tom.

Everything at O'ert road is mint, well worth checking out!

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#6887 Re: YYFY!!!
July 13, 2018, 03:33:28 pm
Yay ☺️☺️

New South Devon guide book arrived this morning.

Fabulous effort by Pete Saunders, Simon, and everyone else involved.

 :beer2: :dance1:

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#6888 Re: YYFY!!!
July 13, 2018, 07:01:05 pm
Yay ☺️☺️

New South Devon guide book arrived this morning.

Fabulous effort by Pete Saunders, Simon, and everyone else involved.

 :beer2: :dance1:

Just got my copy too. What a lovely spread of choss and class.

Not sure if you have already somewhere but I’d love to hear more about your Caveman and Flaming Drambuie solos, Dave? The history section gives due credit but doesn’t go into much detail, that’s if there is any, I can understand if these things are black and white and read all over.

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#6889 Re: YYFY!!!
July 13, 2018, 08:55:19 pm
Is the South Devon book in the same landscape layout as the Dartmoor one? I bought that when I was first out of hospital and the combination of having to lie flat on my back and a broken hand meant I couldn’t read any of it!  :boohoo:

Am I right in thinking that all the climbing in Devon is covered by this, the Dartmoor guide and the forthcoming North Devon & Cornwall book, or is there more?

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#6890 Re: YYFY!!!
July 13, 2018, 09:48:00 pm
Is the South Devon book in the same landscape layout as the Dartmoor one? I bought that when I was first out of hospital and the combination of having to lie flat on my back and a broken hand meant I couldn’t read any of it!  :boohoo:

Am I right in thinking that all the climbing in Devon is covered by this, the Dartmoor guide and the forthcoming North Devon & Cornwall book, or is there more?

Yes it’s in that format and yes I think that’s correct

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#6891 Re: YYFY!!!
July 13, 2018, 10:56:34 pm
Cheers Guy, need to get down to Devon when I’m fit again.

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#6892 Re: YYFY!!!
July 15, 2018, 02:15:23 pm
Heard rumours ND&C might be split into two?

+1 to DT solo tales.

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#6893 Re: YYFY!!!
July 16, 2018, 08:33:50 pm
Heard rumours ND&C might be split into two?

Think this is more than a rumour - I heard the same from Mark Kembell who is heavily involved in putting it together.

The rationale is that culm coast and baggy point stuff is largely written, whereas atlantic coast is barely started and there’s loads of development going on there at the moment.  It would also be a massive tome if it covered it all in one guide.

Some people will question the commercial wisdom of splitting it into two guides, but as a local who loves this coastline I will happily buy both.

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#6894 Re: YYFY!!!
July 18, 2018, 05:49:03 pm
Managed to bag my 50th 7th grade boulder t'other day in caseg fraith. An aim I set for myself this year! A small victory in comparison to some peoples achievements on here but a meaningful YYFY for me since I have been close grabbing an elusive 8th grade problem for some time now, so I decided to step back and consolidate the lower 7's instead, which has proven to be far more enjoyable!

Time to up the stakes and get to 50 7B=<  ;)

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#6895 Re: YYFY!!!
July 18, 2018, 09:59:55 pm
Quote from: Wood FT
Not sure if you have already somewhere but I’d love to hear more about your Caveman and Flaming Drambuie solos, Dave?

There's a great account of the caveman solo in the climbers club journal if you haven't already read it.
 https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.climbers-club.co.uk/journal/original/1991%2520Journal-p118-127.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiZuoPOwqncAhUBPsAKHbwFCyIQFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw0xRTVovEi2DG-W0BtOr8Ht
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#6896 Re: YYFY!!!
July 18, 2018, 11:05:18 pm
Quote from: Wood FT
Not sure if you have already somewhere but I’d love to hear more about your Caveman and Flaming Drambuie solos, Dave?

There's a great account of the caveman solo in the climbers club journal if you haven't already read it.
 https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.climbers-club.co.uk/journal/original/1991%2520Journal-p118-127.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiZuoPOwqncAhUBPsAKHbwFCyIQFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw0xRTVovEi2DG-W0BtOr8Ht

Thanks very much

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#6897 Re: YYFY!!!
July 19, 2018, 12:52:26 am
Quote from: Wood FT
Not sure if you have already somewhere but I’d love to hear more about your Caveman and Flaming Drambuie solos, Dave?

There's a great account of the caveman solo in the climbers club journal if you haven't already read it.
 https://www.google.co.uk/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=http://www.climbers-club.co.uk/journal/original/1991%2520Journal-p118-127.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwiZuoPOwqncAhUBPsAKHbwFCyIQFjAAegQIAhAB&usg=AOvVaw0xRTVovEi2DG-W0BtOr8Ht

Thanks for the link  ;)

Loads of other great anecdotes too.
It all sounds rather more dramatised than I remember - apart from pinching the loose hold together  ;D Poem is very curiously abridged.

I'll try to put something together, but sometimes things happen just because you're enjoying where you are with your climbing - and I'm guessing we can all relate to that.  :)

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#6898 Re: YYFY!!!
July 19, 2018, 02:08:16 am
I can remember some lovely days joint soloing with you Dave, True Moments/Freebird and Bishop's Rib standing out as particularly enjoyable. Paul Pritchard and I also watched from the road as you set out on Lord, before we wandered off for the first visit any of us paid to Scimitar Ridge.

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#6899 Re: YYFY!!!
July 19, 2018, 11:04:33 am
I just did a pull-up for the first time since my accident.  :dance1:

 

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