[Will Hunt]

Minor addition to this backwater. The "project" marked on the current Carncliff Top topo. Climb through breaks to a difficult top out through chunky pebbles and a last big slap to a pothole. Actually climbs really nicely.

[Will Hunt]

Couldn't decide whether to chuck this in "Videos and Pictures to make you want to give up climbing".

[andy popp]

Another problem I don't believe the grade of.

[tomtom]

Another problem I don't believe the grade of.

No video proof either

[andyd]

1 That's the most entertained I've ever been by your videos.
2 A climber of your caliber does not struggle on a 6b
3 A climber of your caliber does not fail to record a 6b on video 

[SA Chris]

Another problem I don't believe the grade of.

There has to be a twist.

[Will Hunt]

I was having a properly crap day. I fell off a Font 5 at Earl Seat before moving to Carncliff! Felt low on blood sugar all day.

Having said that, I do think that there are some genuinely difficult problems on the moors. It might not be a giveaway at 6B but the grade is in the right ballpark and on a par with problems of a similar grade and style. There are far too many soft touches in bouldering that are allowed to go unchecked, mainly because they're good problems which people can't bring themselves to grade properly because they know that 6s are looked down upon as pointless and crap by many boulderers. People assume that once they've moved into the 7s then it is beneath them to climb 6s. It's not true. Some of my best friends are Font 6s.

Yes we can!

[Fiend]

Nah I believe the grade is right and Will is just a massive punter.

Actually looks quite good fun for a lip grovel.

[cheque]

Couldn't decide whether to chuck this in "Videos and Pictures to make you want to give up climbing".

Looks nice with the heather in the foreground though. Good falls as well!

[andyd]

There are three more grades on offer before the magical 7th grade. It's not unreasonable to think that you could crush 6b in your trainers. 6b is a bench mark that you should expect to be able to demonstrate on cue (in front of the camera). It looks like an awkward bunched move at the top. Tricky? Warranting a stiffer grade? (I'm not coming out of retirement and walking up to try this problem to prove my point btw!)

[Will Hunt]

I'm not coming out of retirement and walking up to try this problem to prove my point btw!

Then we'll never know. It's unlikely any other UKB users will either (though if they do, could you please collect my brushes? They're on top of the boulder)

It's a nice problem actually. It should be totally impossibly nails as the top is balding, sloping scrittle. There are these two perfectly placed pebbles that the slender fingered can crimp with two fingers a piece (the pinballs). You get your foot in the jug under the overhang and pull up as far as you can, then slap for a tantalising, sloping pothole, which is often just just just out of reach! Or you can do as I do and plummet into a soft bed of bouncy heather.

[Will Hunt]

Footwork repeated this yesterday and then big fat dunnyg ripped the first pebble off. It will still go but might be a little harder than before.

Ben thought 6C for the original with both pebbles which just demonstrates what a massive punter he really is 

[Footwork]

I thought it was at least 6c. I had to crimp the pebbles really hard.

Might I also mention that Will Hunt failed to repeat his (supposedly) own problem. Again

 

[36chambers]

I thought it was at least 6c. I had to crimp the pebbles really hard.

Might I also mention that Will Hunt failed to repeat his (supposedly) own problem. Again

 

Second go to send, but then more than two sessions to repeat

[dunnyg]

Not my fault you guys are weak so never really tested the pebbles. Slopers are cooler anyway.