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Title: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: blacky on July 17, 2016, 11:46:36 am
 :o :o :o Just been Tom's Buttress and basically the whole left hand section has fallen down from What's This For leftward and including the aptly named Art of Self Destruction. Looks like trees roots have gotten in behind and pried it off over time.

Good news is that there's some hard projects for anyone brave enough! Will try to post pics later.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: tomtom on July 17, 2016, 12:07:25 pm
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Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: andy_e on July 17, 2016, 01:08:51 pm
Holy fuck! Hope nobody was underneath it!
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: sjw on July 17, 2016, 01:24:55 pm
Holy hell. I've been there a few times recently to try finish something off on that buttress and it's been wet for weeks. Mixed feelings of being gutted I'll have to cross it off my ticklist and grateful that I wasn't underneath it. I'm intrigued to see what's left behind.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: tomtom on July 17, 2016, 01:30:25 pm
At least what I've done there can't be downgraded ;)
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: rodma on July 17, 2016, 01:34:16 pm
Shit!

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Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: fatneck on July 17, 2016, 02:24:08 pm
Holy moly!!!!
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: Doylo on July 17, 2016, 05:27:53 pm
Jesus Mary of Lord.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: T_B on July 17, 2016, 05:44:22 pm
Shit! Was there with the family at Whitsun, kids building dens underneath Art of Self Destruction  :doubt:
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: tc on July 17, 2016, 07:49:13 pm
...kids building dens underneath Art of Self Destruction  :doubt:

That'll be what did it. Bloody kids.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: tomtom on July 17, 2016, 08:02:20 pm
Sounds like a higher power at work here. The spirit of Gaskins works in mysterious ways!
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: PipeSmoke on July 17, 2016, 08:14:39 pm
Anyone who goes there fancy getting a picture to upload ?
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: Richie Crouch on July 17, 2016, 10:22:23 pm
Keen to see what's left! Always meant to go back and do that crap looking campus across crimps problem to arbitrary finish.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: blacky on July 17, 2016, 10:41:34 pm
Totally puntered the video. Best watched standing on your head...
https://vimeo.com/175149127 (https://vimeo.com/175149127)
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: Doylo on July 17, 2016, 10:51:32 pm
Cripes! Looks like a couple of potential 8G+s there .
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: dave on July 17, 2016, 10:56:47 pm
Shit me. It was a tossup whether we were stopping at Woodwell on Saturday afternoon on the way up, looks like either A a lucky escape there, or B missed my chance to try Art of Self Destruction.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: Doylo on July 17, 2016, 11:06:21 pm
Apparently Markus Bock was seen in the area with a big crow bar.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: rodma on July 18, 2016, 06:28:49 am
Kaisen will be slightly harder with all but the starting feet gone

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Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: Eddies on July 18, 2016, 08:41:57 am
 :o Holy shit!!
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: a dense loner on July 18, 2016, 09:14:25 am
That's some weight lying on the floor!!!
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: T_B on July 18, 2016, 11:15:04 am
This was taken last month. Maybe it was a good thing I was injured and couldn't climb, as I may have pulled it down!

(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CnlK_OCWcAQZS5t.jpg:large)

Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: Will Hunt on July 18, 2016, 11:28:06 am
Look at those tree roots. Hanging in space with no more little crevices to burrow into. Bet they don't feel so clever now, do they? Tree root twats.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: tomtom on July 18, 2016, 11:49:33 am
Looks quite repairable though... Bit of sika, couple of props, jobs a good un.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: Adam Lincoln on July 18, 2016, 12:00:25 pm
I blame all 14.5st of the Blackpool car jack.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: thekettle on July 18, 2016, 01:37:37 pm
 :o  :'( some local classics/nemeses gone. I once injured a pulley on a family walk there, deadhanging the Art of Self Destruction crimps without warming up,  happy days  ::)
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: Nibile on July 18, 2016, 05:30:18 pm
So sorry. I've always loved Woodwell and always wanted to get there. Don't know why but I've always thought that I could do well in such a place.
Oh well.

Which ticks can I claim honoris causa by general consensus?
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: a dense loner on July 18, 2016, 06:07:16 pm
None. It's not that good nibs, it's a good local venue.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: rodma on July 18, 2016, 07:11:32 pm
None. It's not that good nibs, it's a good local venue.
It was always worth the drive for me. A lovely setting, the smell of wild garlic, bluebells under the trees, lowball problems.

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Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: tomtom on July 18, 2016, 10:05:07 pm
None. It's not that good nibs, it's a good local venue.
It was always worth the drive for me. A lovely setting, the smell of wild garlic, bluebells under the trees, lowball problems.

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Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: Monolith on July 19, 2016, 03:09:11 pm
Fantastic memories of Crouch eating 10kg of mixed cheeses before writing off the session and napping all day on the bouldering mat. What a crag.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: Doylo on July 19, 2016, 05:05:47 pm
It's my least favourite sector of Woodwell but it would have been nice to do Art Of. Oh well.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: remus on July 19, 2016, 10:46:13 pm
Nobody keen for the glue job then? I'll start the sika fund off with a £2 donation.
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: AdamD on July 24, 2016, 11:47:44 am
I went down to Woodwell on Friday to see the damage. I've included some photos for you guys :)

(http://i67.tinypic.com/20kxjkx.jpg)

(http://i64.tinypic.com/2ivlo2h.jpg)

The area to the left of AOSD is also quite unstable...
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: Jim on July 24, 2016, 11:51:34 am
new park bench required to do front levers under  :P
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: CJDavies on July 25, 2016, 08:36:06 pm
Extreme shame -loved this place.  Kaizen was awesome andalways a goal. AOSD was amazing, and also Crucifix Kiss Footless, Beauty of Being Numb, and it goes on.  Just as bad as Roadrunner going down in flames. 
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: SA Chris on July 26, 2016, 09:37:22 am
kids building dens underneath Art of Self Destruction  :doubt:

You think the raging cooking fire might have done some harm?
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: 36chambers on July 26, 2016, 10:25:30 am
Apologises if I have completely missed it, but could someone list the problems that have been affected by the rockfall?
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: tomtom on July 26, 2016, 11:00:49 am
Looks like Closer (and problems to the right) have gone - using the front image of my vid of it for comparison:

https://vimeo.com/71102786

(http://i67.tinypic.com/20kxjkx.jpg)

Still, I don't have to get crucifix kiss done now :) silver linings and all that... ;)
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: Moo on July 26, 2016, 01:38:29 pm
so all the holds for kaizen are still there but it might just be 9a now?
Title: Re: Woodwell Carnage
Post by: SA Chris on July 26, 2016, 02:40:19 pm
Going to need a crowbar team to clear that.
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