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big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 11:10:29 am
it was twilight last night, it looked like a grey/bit of white wolf like thing, i saw it from sitting under Heartland moving through the woods opposite. quite impressive.

As an aside any beta on Heartland, i was on my own and decided to not stick around to work it out.

before you ask - it wasn't a Tibetan Spaniel, a sheep, or a cow.

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#1 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 11:22:26 am
2 mountain hares in tandem?

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#2 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 11:24:34 am
The Font panther?

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#3 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 11:38:53 am
There's an awful lot of bones in those woods. I was there the other day looking round;wearing a grey wolf suit and a white neckerchief.

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#4 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 11:41:07 am
Heartland beta: From jug match, LH to pinch/flatty, RF heel toe in jug, RH gaston/flared finger jam, turn LH hold into an undercut pinch, get LF poorish heel-toe behind LH on pinch, up to slopey top with left, match top, shuffle left. Can't recall exact details of the next few moves, but for the end bit - RH on sloper underneath undercut, LH in slopey break out left, hang as low as possible, throw on a right heelhook and turn RH into undercut, pull to top.
You will also hear numerous other ways of doing it. Have tried other sequences people told me, they all seemed harder to me. I think it's only 7b+ with good beta.

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#5 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 11:45:23 am
it's only 7b+ with good beta


Someone should put that on a t-shirt...

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#6 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 11:54:04 am
Heartland beta: From jug match, LH to pinch/flatty, RF heel toe in jug, RH gaston/flared finger jam, turn LH hold into an undercut pinch, get LF poorish heel-toe behind LH on pinch, up to slopey top with left, match top, shuffle left.

This is simply crackpipe madness, the twisted brain-wrong of a on-off man mental. Tried this very beta on wednesday, its utter bollocks. if you can hold the drag/seam enough for this to work you'd be able to crush it some easier beta without a foot-to-face contorsion in the middle.

I think it's only 7b+ with good beta.

If anyone knows what said beta is, I'm all ears.

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#7 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 11:57:14 am
Said beta might not be the most optimal if you are tall.

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#8 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 12:13:25 pm
of course beta might be all academic, national park rangers suggesting it isn't the safest place to climb on your own up there, especially a fat lad like myself.

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#9 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 12:18:14 pm
jon's version of the story this morning was (and I'm simplifying):

Jon: "I saw a big cat near baslow last night"

Me: "what do you think it was"

Jon: "an irish wolfhound"

Me (sarcastically): "so not a cat then"

incidentally, in one of the quarries near scouse's new problem it did look like something had been going apeshit eating up some young lambs (scouse?) so maybe he's onto something...



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#10 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 12:30:56 pm
cofe is so proud of his funny sarcastic reply he has told everyone in the office how funny it is, and you lot, and indeed me a few times.

i note he isn't coming out to try Heartland this afty though...

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#11 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 12:34:52 pm
i could probably make some comment about 'tight arsed boss not giving me time off to try it' or summert but it might not go down too well...

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#12 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 12:50:31 pm
A scottish wild cat gone astray? I have seen what I believe to be one twice now. Probably crossbred with a feral domestic, but definitely bigger than any tabby i have seen.

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#13 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 01:24:29 pm
Think I've solved the mystery...



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#14 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 01:29:58 pm
no, that's his dog.

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#15 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 25, 2008, 11:00:44 pm
isn't heartland at gardoms north and not baslow
question?

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#16 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 26, 2008, 11:57:30 am
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i saw it from sitting under Heartland moving through the woods opposite.

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#17 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
April 26, 2008, 09:56:06 pm
Funnily enough I've worked in the woods in question a couple of times, and both times I've seen a Timberwolf.

Although saying that, I was a tree surgeon at the time.  And Timberwolf is a brand of chipper.

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#18 Re: big cat/wolf at Baslow
May 05, 2008, 11:09:10 am
never seen a chipshop in any woods.

 

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