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Pete Whittacker has soloed 150 Grit Extremes in a day (Read 8480 times)

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Impressive.

I wonder if he's training for something...

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 :bow: Mental, be good to see a list of routes and logisitics.


I can't imagine the grit felt 100% jackson yesterday but there must have been something in the air as Sophie Whyte and Lindy Smith completed the Staffordshire Nose Challenge as well!  :beer2:



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I can't imagine the grit felt 100% jackson yesterday but there must have been something in the air as Sophie Whyte and Lindy Smith completed the Staffordshire Nose Challenge as well!  :beer2:

BEASTS!

Well done to Pete too.

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Petes Ticklist

Pinhead Moonstomp    E1 5b    Curbar
Hercules    E1 5a    Curbar
Scroach    E2 5c    Curbar
Right Eliminate    E3 5c    Curbar
Left Eliminate    E1 5c    Curbar
Thirst for Glory    E1 5b    Curbar
Pretty Face    E1 5b    Curbar
Plaything    E2 5c    Curbar
L'Horla    E1 5b    Curbar
Elder Crack    E2 5b    Curbar
Done Years Ago    E3 6b    Curbar
Canoe    E2 5c    Curbar
Finger Distance    E3 6b    Curbar
Kayak    E1 5b    Curbar
Rapid    E1 5c    Curbar
Lepton Original    E3 6b    Curbar
Vain    E3 5b    Curbar
Zebedee    E2 5b    Curbar
Betwixt    E1 5a    Curbar
The Wall    E1 6a    Curbar
Top Secret    E1 5c    Curbar
Lamebrain    E1 5b    Curbar
The Scoop    E2 5b    Curbar
Diddlum Wall Direct    E1 5b    Curbar
Fidget    E2 6b    Curbar
Gone To Pot    E1 5c    Curbar
Pot    E2 6a    Curbar
The Mask    E1 6a    Curbar
White Noise F.M.    E2 6a    Curbar
Humdrum    E1 5a    Curbar
One Up Again    E1 5c    Curbar
Afterbirth    E1 5c    Curbar
Birthday Groove    E1 5c    Curbar
The Unreachable Star    E3 6a    Curbar
Hidden Pleasures    E3 6a    Curbar
John's Arete    E1 5c    Curbar
Rat Scabies    E3 6a    Curbar
Camel Ticks    E3 6b    Curbar
Black Nix Wall    E1 5c    Curbar
Beach Nut    E1 5c    Froggatt
Stiff Cheese    E2 5c    Froggatt
Big Crack    E2 5b    Froggatt
Brown's Eliminate    E2 5b    Froggatt
Synopsis    E2 5c    Froggatt
Great Slab    E3 5b    Froggatt
Heartless Hare    E5 5c    Froggatt
Downhill Racer    E4 6a    Froggatt
Long John's Slab    E3 5c    Froggatt
Nanoq Slab    E2 5b    Froggatt
Four Pebble Slab    E3 5c    Froggatt
Three Pebble Slab    E1 5a    Froggatt
Two-sided Triangle    E1 5b    Froggatt
Motorcade    E1 5a    Froggatt
Ratbag    E2 5b    Froggatt
Cave Crack    E2 5c    Froggatt
Brightside    E2 5c    Froggatt
Sundowner    E2 5a    Froggatt
Parrallel Piped    E3 5c    Froggatt
Scarper's Triangle    E1 5b    Froggatt
Strapiombo    E1 5b    Froggatt
Strapiombante    E1 5b    Froggatt
Regent Street    E2 5c    Millstone
Embankment 4    E1 5b    Millstone
Embankment 3    E1 5b    Millstone
Billingsgate    E1 5b    Millstone
Windrete    E2 5c    Millstone
Only Just    E1 5a    Millstone
Dexterity    E1 5b    Millstone
February Fox    E2 5b    Millstone
Gates of Mordor    E3 5c    Millstone
Satan's Slit    E1 5b    Millstone
Millwheel Wall    E1 5b    Burbage South
Zeus    E2 5b    Burbage South
Goliath    E5 6a    Burbage South
Above & Beyond    E4 6b    Burbage South
Pebble Mill    E5 6b    Burbage South
Knick Knack Paddywhack    E2 6b    Burbage South
The Knack    E1 5c    Burbage South
Nosferatu    E6 6b    Burbage South
Sorb    E2 5c    Burbage South
Moviestar    E1 5b    Burbage South
Captain Sensible    E1 5b    Burbage South
The Knock    E4 5c    Burbage South
Boggart Left-hand    E3 6a    Burbage South
Midge    E2 6a    Burbage South
Gnat    E1 5c    Burbage South
The Penultimate    E1 5b    Burbage North
The Fin    E1 5b    Burbage North
Short Fat Bastard    E1 5b    Burbage North
Long Tall Sally    E1 5b    Burbage North
The Screamer    E1 5c    Burbage North
The Irrepressible Urge    E1 5b    Burbage North
The Edging Machine    E1 5b    Burbage North
Slide Away    E1 5a    Burbage North
Bulletproof    E1 6a    Burbage North
The Rainmaker    E1 5a    Burbage North
Windjammer    E1 5b    Burbage North
King's Return    E2 5b    Burbage North
High Flyer    E3 6a    Burbage North
The Sentinel    E2 5c    Burbage North
Now or Never    E1 5a    Burbage North
Evening Wall    E1 5b    Burbage North
Twilight Wall    E2 5c    Burbage North
All Star's Goal    E1 6a    Burbage North
Monk On    E1 5b    Burbage North
Banana Finger    E1 6a    Burbage North
Route 3.5    E1 6a    Burbage North
Mental Peace    E2 5c    Stanage
Big Chris    E1 5b    Stanage
Jersey Boys    E1 5a    Stanage
Gulliver's Travels    E1 5b    Stanage
War Zone    E1 6a    Stanage
Tip Off Right    E2 5c    Stanage
The Tippler    E1 5b    Stanage
The Dangler    E2 5c    Stanage
The Unprintable    E1 5b    Stanage
Kirkus' Corner    E1 5b    Stanage
Flying Buttress Direct    E1 5b    Stanage
Goodbye Toulouse    E1 5b    Stanage
Little Sarah    E1 5b    Stanage
Armchair Buccaneer    E1 5b    Stanage
Straightsville    E2 5b    Stanage
Yosemite Wall    E2 5b    Stanage
Via Dexter    E1 5c    Stanage
Topaz Copout    E1 5b    Stanage
Well Right    E2 5c    Stanage
Twintrin    E1 5c    Stanage
Easter Rib    E1 5b    Stanage
Ice Boat    E1 5c    Stanage
Coconut Ice    E2 5b    Stanage
Hybrid    E1 5b    Stanage
Wuthering    E2 5b    Stanage
Bobsnob    E1 5a    Stanage
Exit Stage Left    E1 5b    Stanage
Morrison's Redoubt    E1 5b    Stanage
Saliva    E1 5b    Stanage
Another Game of Bowls    E1 5b    Stanage
The Old Dragon    E2 5b    Stanage
Keep Pedalling    E1 5b    Stanage
Pedlar's Rib    E1 5c    Stanage
Spearing the Bearded Clam    E3 5c    Stanage
5.9 Finish    E1 5b    Stanage
On a Wing and a Prayer    E1 5c    Stanage
Curving Buttress    E2 5b    Stanage
Curving Chimney Left Arete    E2 5b    Stanage
Monday Blue    E2 5b    Stanage
Left Unconquerable    E1 5b    Stanage
Namenlos    E1 5a    Stanage
New Balls Please    E1 5b    Stanage
Millsom's Minion    E1 5b    Stanage

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If I manage those in my lifetime I'll be delighted.

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Banana Finger E1, yes I know Ed Ward Whymper Mallory graded it E1, but really does anyone consider it a route now?

There also seem to be quite a few error's in the list unless my memory is playing up, Isn't the E1 @ Stanage Gullible's travels (or is that the E2 variant to the left?) High Flyer @ Burbage North 6a, more like 5b, Monk On should be about H/VS 5a, War Zone if it's the one to the right of Crack & Corner never E1 although probably 6a, Kyak E1 fuck off. Although I see the source is Cocktalk so perhaps not to be regarded as a good provenance.

Note in no way diminishing the effort or scale of the achievement, both of which are beyond my abilities.

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So these things only count if people can read your mind to what the grade should be. Whats your best extreme solo day?

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Pete told me he soloed 150 just in case 50 of them got downgraded. He didn't want to take any chances ;-)

We're trying to make a list of the Eastern Grit Brown & Whillans at the moment and that's a bloody nightmare trying to not make errors on information. I guess that's why we're measly climbers and not lawyers!




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I've don 'the ton' on Stanage twice and the half century on Burbage North a good few times, the number of 'Es' probably 20-25 on Stanage and 15 or so On Burbage N. Grades should be taken at their current accepted standard, if some one were to ground up The Promise would this be accepted as an E10 tick?

I';m surprised that Pete didn't do Via Media at Stanage, a very steady tick at E1/2, Wall End Slab Direct, Pure White & Deadly

As I said I'm not seeking to diminish the scale of the achievement, but imagine the derison some newbie would get if they stated that they'd on sight soloed Banana Finger at E1, don't you think he'd be told that it is V1 or 5a or what ever?

As for the quip about the down grade, it's well known if I were ever let loose on a guide there's be three bouldering grades, easy 4+ and 5 and all routes would be XS 5c.


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So out of 150 routes you've managed to quibble with six, out of which:

Banana Finger - no-one considers it E1 because they do it with pads, still E1 to solo and I presume Pete was soloing given he was soloing.
Gullible's Travels - yes that's the name and it's still E1 5b.
High Flyer - yes 5b but it's still E2 and still an extreme solo then.
Monk On - no idea maybe you are right.
War Zone - no idea maybe you are right.
Kayak - E2 or E2, dunno how tall Pete is maybe he can do the E1 version, either way it's another extreme solo.

So it's possible there is some quibble about the E-suitability of errr 2 of the routes.  :ras:

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Could the mods do a thread split? Just take all of Sloper's posts here and chuck 'em in the logpile, please.

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No, don't log pile! I need to show Pete this thread so he can get his lazy arse into gear and go and complete his 150 properly. Banana Finger.... outrageous! He probably stood on multiple pads stacked on top of each other as well.


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Back around.  :wave:

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So....

Banana Finger - dodgy for sure: its a lowball boulder problem but as trad its VS/HVS 6a ish  (HS 5b if you possess HH fleece trousers).
Monk On - full value E1 onsight...off-balance scary Sloper '5a' in sandbag mode (I'd be much happier on a Kayak solo)
War Zone - E1 6a compared to the much softer touch E1 rib climbs further left.

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So out of 150 routes you've managed to quibble with six, out of which:

Banana Finger - no-one considers it E1 because they do it with pads, still E1 to solo and I presume Pete was soloing given he was soloing.
Gullible's Travels - yes that's the name and it's still E1 5b.
High Flyer - yes 5b but it's still E2 and still an extreme solo then.
Monk On - no idea maybe you are right.
War Zone - no idea maybe you are right.
Kayak - E2 or E2, dunno how tall Pete is maybe he can do the E1 version, either way it's another extreme solo.

So it's possible there is some quibble about the E-suitability of errr 2 of the routes.  :ras:

Even if they get E0, it's still an Extreme :)

 

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