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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: Spad climbing

« Last post by Will Hunt on Today at 03:09:16 pm »

Does the 5b ascend kitty litter peak limestone?

Yes.

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: Spad climbing

« Last post by jwi on Today at 02:35:11 pm »

This is extremly confusing without knowing the crag. People are toproping an E7 (or possibly a 7c+?) and cannot simply solo a 5b to get up a toprope? So they must install a via cordata instead? Surely not? Does the 5b ascend kitty litter?

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: Spad climbing

« Last post by ToxicBilberry on Today at 02:15:14 pm »

Whatever happened to going about your business quietly with as little fuss and impact as possible? Alternatively why not rig a circus up at the crag and spray all over the internet about your personal journey. …. Nowt wrong with a bit of spad climbing now and again.

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: Spad climbing

« Last post by Bonjoy on Today at 01:59:49 pm »

Yes, I don't think Ilam is on access land. It's in a National Nature Reserve and there was a programme to dedicate NNRs as access land that started in 2015, but there were stated exceptions to this based on terrain and conservation, either of which might plausibly apply in this case. https://magic.defra.gov.uk/magicmap.aspx is the most definitive online record and it doesn't show it as being access land.

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news / Re: significant repeats

« Last post by Duma on Today at 01:36:32 pm »

Anak Verhoven has climbed La Planta de Shiva in Villanueva del Rosario for her first 9b. She joins Laura Rogora, Julia Charnoudiere and Angela Eiter as the only women to have climbed the grade.

https://www.instagram.com/p/C7CYw_OtgML/

Just did it again without kneepads. Crazy how good she is! Still being ignored by the other channel I see.

https://www.instagram.com/reel/C7OpRWCNFct/?igsh=MTU2YnFyMjFtb3BkZA==

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MoonBoard / Re: Moonboard - climbing by numbers or rather LED lights

« Last post by SA Chris on Today at 01:24:07 pm »

Yeah, we are going through the preventing / mitigating process at the moment. But the difference between two holds next to each other is (literally) chalk and cheese, and the affected holds are randomly scattered.

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MoonBoard / Re: Moonboard - climbing by numbers or rather LED lights

« Last post by Bradders on Today at 01:00:32 pm »

I'm not sure how the lamination part works, but my experience of holds made from plywood is they are catastrophically susceptible to condensation. Far more so than any other material. Presumably the laminating is supposed to help?

I also have had it where holds in different places on the board are affected differently despite being made from the same material, which I imagine is something to do with airflow etc.

Lots of advice on the holds thread around preventing / mitigating condensation.

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: Spad climbing

« Last post by Hacker on Today at 12:57:30 pm »

Agree.
Looks like I'm be wrong about the open access anyway. The OS app shows the particular crag as open acess but the Natural England site does not. Neither show any of the southern crags on the easy bank as being on open access land and it wouldn't be worth contemplating loosing those.

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shootin' the shit / Re: Cars, Cars, Fucking CARS !!

« Last post by Paul B on Today at 12:44:01 pm »

Has anyone got any beta for AC re-gassing beyond ATS Euromaster or similar? I'm hoping whoever offers this service does a pressure test first but the local garage in Colne said otherwise (I was under the impression it isn't great for the environment so this seems a little odd).

The car's been fault code scanned and there's nothing showing up that looks like the culprit.

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get involved: access, environment, BMC / Re: Spad climbing

« Last post by Johnny Brown on Today at 12:31:23 pm »

There is a big difference between being allowed to climb and being allowed to install bolts. At some point (hopefuly not here but somewhere) I expect the situation to arise, as it has in the US, where an entire area has to be completely cleared of all fixed gear.