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Wonder when they will get round to speaking to the leading lights?

http://www.ukclimbing.com/articles/page.php?id=126

I assume this means Bubba will have to give an interview with Mick 'chipthecragcauseimnotgoodenough' Ryan

[Fiend]

LMAO would be ironic. After the Lakes bouldering guide scandal and whatever. I seem to remember Mick being a bit put out that I wasn't banned from here when he was :D.

Having said that as great as this place is it doesn't have the same purpose as YG.com or LB.com...

[dave]

I doubt mick could do a UKB feature without playing the old tired "i'm really bitter cos i got banned" and "they all wanna be american" cards, though obviously i'd like to be proved wrong.

[Duma]

bit off topic, but the lakes guide thing was a bit before my time and I can't seem to find the thread - any links?

[Graeme]

Saw this on the old rockfax website:
http://www.rockfax.com/forums/t.php?t=134727&v=1#1869739

Don't know how serious it is.

[dave]

anyone wanna post/quote the text from that thread? i ain't registered on cocktalk and thus can't see archived threads.

[Graeme]

Topic - lakes bouldering guidebook
 by - CJD  on - 17 Jun 2005
am I right in thinking that there isn't a lakes bouldering guidebook?

I know about lakesbloc etc but I was wondering about a guidebook...

 
 by - Adders  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to CJD: old rockfax but lakesbloc is best bet as more up to date.... i hope/think there compilling guides to make their own guide book? fingers crossed anyway.  
 by - CJD  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to Adders:

yeah, was just thinking about having to print off lots of PDFs. fingers crossed too.
 by - Adders  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to CJD: print them off in colour and laminate them for now if you can.
 by - JonC  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to CJD:

doesn't bouldering defeat the whole object of climbing in the Lakes?
 by - CJD  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to JonC:

it depends whether you view bouldering as part of the range of climbing that the lakes has to offer, from bouldering through single pitch through multipitch to (occasionally) winter routes, or whether you're more interested in sticking doggedly to multipitch stuff because you believe that that's what you *should* do, I guess :-)
 by - Chris the Tall  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to JonC:
Quite useful when you get the occasional break in the rain
 by - Carolyn  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to JonC:

> doesn't bouldering defeat the whole object of climbing in the Lakes?

And this from the man who visits Head End Quarry? ;-)

 
 by - Alan James - UKC  on - 17 Jun 2005 - www.rockfax.com
In reply to CJD:

We are preparing a Lakes Bouldering guidebook which is due for publication this winter some time. It is being compiled by Jonathan Lagoe.

Alan
 by - Adders  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to Alan James - UKC: hurry up!
 by - Greg Chapman  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to Alan James - UKC:
I can't wait
 by - JonC  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to Carolyn:

well at least you made me laugh !

and what's wrong with Head End? polished low limestone outcrop with burnt out cars in the quarry - sounds great

 
 by - JonC  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to Chris the Tall:

well, this coming week in the lakes looks set to be rather nice so I am happy indeed ! multi-pitch heaven here we come
 by - Richard Bradley  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to Greg Chapman: We're in trouble if you need one?!?

To OR. There are bits in the lakes selective guide.
 by - JonC  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to CJD:

> it depends whether you view bouldering as part of the range of climbing that the lakes has to offer, from bouldering through single pitch through multipitch to (occasionally) winter routes

I do in fact do all of the above. Under the Bowderstone is quite a good place to hide if it rains (though it is often midgey and all the problems are way too hard for me). And I will probably spend a little while at the Langdale boulders this coming week. But multi-pitch is, in fact, what the Lakes is good at.

Out of interest, what was your tally of winter routes in the Lakes this year?


 
 by - CJD  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to JonC:

but it doesn't mean that people can't go to the lakes and boulder, does it? what I was disagreeing with was your statement that 'bouldering defeats the point of climbing in the lakes'; I couldn't understand it, as there's lots to do in the lakes, and just 'cause there's lots of good multipitch doesn't detract from the quality of the bouldering, surely?

I also mentioned 'what the lakes has to offer' rather than what I do in the lakes. For instance, I've never bouldered there. This year was my first winter climbing anywhere, and it was in Scotland.
 by - JonC  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to CJD:

I was joking, honestly.

But suggesting I consider the wide spectrum of climbing in the lakes was a bit rich it seems.

It was quite a reasonable winter in the lakes by the way
 by - CJD  on - 17 Jun 2005
In reply to JonC:

didn't mean to offend, just couldn't work out where you were coming from and had it in my head that you were multi-pitch all the way...

sorry for any offence caused :-)

my dad bought me the lakes winter guide for christmas... I'm thinking that scotland might be a better bet for learning (in terms of more snow) but you never know, i might get as far as the lakes in winter one day.

 I don't think its too serious, but it make me take notice a little bit.

[Duma]

topic I'm looking for is the one bubba's on about unlocking in this thread : http://ukbouldering.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1599

[Duma]

Found it!
http://ukbouldering.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1411

[Bubba]

For a start, ukb would never be in such a feature because 90% of it is out of date and un-maintained and can hardly be considered in the best of British websites. The new site really did nearly get done last year but then I had a brainstorm and began to hate all things to do with IT, so that saw the development grind to a halt (This will most probably change now I'm doing something completely non-IT related for work).

Anyway, that never really mattered coz ukb is really now just the forum, and I'm pretty happy with that - it's an interesting and funny forum without having the bitterness the vast quantities of dickheads that many other forums end up with.

Even if such a feature was ever in the pipeline, it'd never happen because I would never agree to such a thing - I dislike the ukc forums intensely and would never be wanted to be connected to Rockfax/UKC in any way.

I know mates of Mick Ryan's who say he's a nice bloke but I only know him from his forum posts, and they don't form in impression of somebody I would ever want to communicate with in any way.  

That said, I do respect him for his constant baiting of the mad freak that is/was JCT.

I'm glad Jon's site has been featured though, coz as I've always said, yorkshiregrit.com is probably the best uk bouldering site around.

As an aside, the ukcaving.com forums which I also own are without doubt the best UK caving forums and though still small, are growing away slowly. Actually, the fact that there's only about 10k posts on them is more a reflection on the state of the uk caving scene than anything else.

[dave]

by - Alan James - UKC  on - 17 Jun 2005 - www.rockfax.com
In reply to CJD:

We are preparing a Lakes Bouldering guidebook which is due for publication this winter some time. It is being compiled by Jonathan Lagoe.

Alan

Now i have no idea who this jonny lego is, but I can't see him having his finger on the ball as much as chapmaster-G when it comes to the lakez bouldering flava. I mean who (appart from the more-money-than-sense-rockfax/planetfear types) is going to buy a guide written by someone nobody knows anything about when they can get the info straight from the horse's mouth on lakesbloc.co.ck??? with lakes bouldering development going on all the time any published guide will be obselete as soon as you get out of the shop with it - whats the fukking point? well maybe the point is making a fast buck or something. seems like  a no brainer though. The tinterweb is the best place for info concerning somewhere like the lakes that not fully mainstream yet buthas a steady stream of development - the info is instantly updateable to cover new areas, new problems, grade changes etc.

I for one won't be putting my hand into my deep pockets for a load of (possibly) second hand info that'll already be out of date when i can get the raw shit off greg's site for fuck all beans - and i aught to be rockfax's main market for such a guide.

[Fiend]

topic I'm looking for is the one bubba's on about unlocking in this thread : http://ukbouldering.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=1599

Which also contains one of my favourite UKB posts ever:

Big Frank - 3 day ban.

You're just winding everyone up and posting pointless, trolling topics and replies. Do it somewhere else please.

 

[Fiend]

P.S. Dave, I agree, I would rather have Chappers writing a guide than anyone else - though I would be happy with Rockfax getting Chappers to do it for them. I also think it could wait a bit for things to come to maturity there...

[dave]

though I would be happy with Rockfax getting Chappers to do it for them.

Yeah and i'd like the israelis and palestinians to get together and form a pubquiz team but lets get out the sheet music and play the real waltz here! :wink:

[Bonjoy]

Seeing as they will most likely be expoilting all his hard work, you would have thought they could at least ask him if he wanted to write the book (perhaps they did - greg?).