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Title: Yet more Peak news!
Post by: Bonjoy on January 06, 2005, 06:01:04 pm
Word just in Iain 'youngster' Farrar has completed his long standing project on the Turd Burglar block at Froggat. This amazing looking highball climbs steep curving and very sloping right arete of the block on it's left hand side. As featured on a brief clip of Iain on it on the start of Consumed. Done today with four pads and one spotter. Crabstick the pimp turned up just in time to catch the FA on film. Definately on the scary side of highballing, the landing is similarly bad if not worse than the landing on Pat's new line. Fortunately the finishing jug of Jetpack provides a suitably flat (but very small) perch for a spotter to stand on and hopefully push you onto mats should you blow the crux upper section. 7c+ has been mentioned gradewise but I think he's still mulling it over.  Word is he's calling it.....















.....My Orange. :lol:  
 You're going to have to pull a very big fruit out the bag now cofe!
Title: Yet more Peak news!
Post by: uptown on January 06, 2005, 08:09:03 pm
Hats off to the young 'un - highball skyball!
Title: Yet more Peak news!
Post by: Johnny Brown on January 06, 2005, 08:33:04 pm
Nice - that's a plum line and good to see the old guard are still pulling 'em out.
Title: Yet more Peak news!
Post by: a dense loner on January 06, 2005, 08:35:25 pm
is that where ben did ozbound?
Title: Yet more Peak news!
Post by: Fiend on January 06, 2005, 08:37:27 pm
Jack fruit:

(http://www.botany.hawaii.edu/faculty/carr/images/art_het_fr.jpg)

Saw ones like this and bigger in a posh London food store, selling for about £30. THAT is the sort of fruit cofe needs to pull out of the bag =).



P.S. Dense, yes.
Title: Yet more Peak news!
Post by: cofe on January 06, 2005, 08:53:56 pm
been down the gym again word. with these WMDs i'm going to be pulling bags out of fruit. that's right. flipside.

amazing line. bout time it was tidied up.
Title: Yet more Peak news!
Post by: Bonjoy on January 07, 2005, 09:04:01 am
The new line follows the arete rising to my left on this pic:
(http://ukbouldering.com/gallery/albums/userpics/10110/slip2.jpg)
 And rocks over the top somewhere up near the clump of heather.
Title: Yet more Peak news!
Post by: jimbo on January 07, 2005, 09:30:07 am
[/quote]been down the gym again word
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just found this picture of cofe :(http://http://i.b5z.net/i/u/230085/i/Ronnie_Coleman.jpg)
Title: Yet more Peak news!
Post by: Johnny Brown on January 07, 2005, 09:40:36 am
The Pimp seems to be fast amassing some kwality footage. Is he gonna edit it up or what???

Oh and its clear from that photo that those branches are in no way big enough to assist an ascent. I hereby restake my claim and name it "get yer own oranges McShane"
Title: Yet more Peak news!
Post by: Bonjoy on January 07, 2005, 10:05:38 am
The Pimp is currently putting a taster thing together to put on UKB and is in the early stages of a proper thing.
  You can keep your oranges Brown, I'm strictly an apple man.
Title: Yet more Peak news!
Post by: Bonjoy on January 12, 2005, 01:20:23 pm
Saw the video t'other day. Looks amaaazing (as dense might say). Spoke to Iain and he says the problem is actually pretty safe as long as you've got a well trained spotter who can push you on if you start struggling or thrust you pad-wise if you fall (the fall from the upper moves has been tested).
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