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news / Re: The inevitable E grade thread

« Last post by Wellsy on Yesterday at 05:14:47 pm »

I reckon recently indoor to outdoors would be accurate yeah

I'll say that it's a sufficiently prevalent view that for a while that's what I thought it was because that's what people told me it was

("That's stupid" yes I know)

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news / Re: The inevitable E grade thread

« Last post by Fultonius on Yesterday at 05:09:16 pm »

Without making a political analogy, being larger and more active doesn’t make something any more right 😆

Agreed! I guess what I was meaning was that even though folks in here might not come across it much, doesn't mean it's just a tiny subgroup - it might be 80% of the recent indoor to outdoor crowd? (not saying that's you Wellsy, just an example).

And the point being, it's maybe significant enough that it could start to sway the general opinion. (move the overton window, to use another political analogy).

These people will still be voting on grades on UKC etc....

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equipment / Re: Semi-static / LSK recommendations

« Last post by Fultonius on Yesterday at 05:05:59 pm »

 

I’m not too proud to admit I was shitting bricks at the top of grey wall. The ground is so far away you can barely tell if the rope reaches.

Climbing Spit In Paradise was totally chill compared the abseil! It was long enough go through about 4 district  phases of fear.

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news / Re: The inevitable E grade thread

« Last post by Wellsy on Yesterday at 04:47:36 pm »

I'm not sure it's such a rare view as you say but I've no real idea.

Of the hundreds of years of collective bouldering experience in here, I don't think you’ll find a single person who would support this view. If you think it’s not rare then I’d suggest it must be in a subset of folk you climb with.

I suspect the subset that Wellsy climbs with is both larger and more active than the knowledgeable old grumblies might expect. I and I would suspect there's perhaps less intermixing too...

Different Venn's, innit.?

I climb with a lot of people of different levels and experiences and it appears to be a random strain that pops up in various people. I don't really climb with people who overlap with your UKB types, although some people I climb with are mega psyched lifers (just of a very different strain)

Many people I know find bouldering grades very frustrating, as an observation, for various reasons. I don't necessarily agree with that mind you.

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news / Re: Aurora

« Last post by SA Chris on Yesterday at 04:01:16 pm »

Space Weather Live app is worth getting of you want to track activity. There is a big spike forecast for "Saturday" not sure if it will be Sat morning or Sat night though. Moon is crescent, which is good though, so will be dark, but we are getting close to not having much proper darkness (more the further south you are I think though), but if it does hit KP8 as forecast, sky stays clear and Bz component of the IMF flips to South (It's Northerly right now) then there could be a good display, need a decent camera or camera phone set up to "see" the best of it though.

Bon Chance!

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news / Re: Aurora

« Last post by CrimpyMcCrimpface on Yesterday at 03:43:31 pm »

Various news outlets reporting that this weekend will be good for Aurora spotting due to increased solar storms. The Aurorawatch UK website seems to report no significant activity. Anyone have any insight? How likely is it that one could actually spot the northern lights at this time of year? Is it worth trying?

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news / Re: The inevitable E grade thread

« Last post by teestub on Yesterday at 03:37:23 pm »

Without making a political analogy, being larger and more active doesn’t make something any more right 😆

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equipment / Re: Semi-static / LSK recommendations

« Last post by Johnny Brown on Yesterday at 03:32:47 pm »

I’m not too proud to admit I was shitting bricks at the top of grey wall. The ground is so far away you can barely tell if the rope reaches.

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equipment / Re: Semi-static / LSK recommendations

« Last post by Fultonius on Yesterday at 03:10:18 pm »

Having just reclimbed prophecy on a 9mm (or 9.5) 100m I can confirm that it's both pretty terrifying! And, a bit tight on a 90. I think we only had 5m extra and we used a separate rigging rope so the knot was near the edge.

Much nicer retrieving and coiling the 9mm over an 11mm too!

The abb off the grey wall recess had me thinking "really would not like to jug out of this on a 9mm....."

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equipment / Re: Semi-static / LSK recommendations

« Last post by Johnny Brown on Yesterday at 03:09:20 pm »

Not done it but Heroin is in my guide at 55m? Traversed in as far as Scavenger, can you not get further?

Easter Island gully is the longest ab I’ve done there, but the actual ab isn’t that long it’s the gully down to it. Forget what we did exactly but we had 70m LS rope, suspect we used that down the gully then used the climbing ropes for the steep bit.