[Bungle.]

dylan if i were you id pretend to be a Aussie far more acceptable than being from Lancashire ..........

[dobbin]

Nice pics Ian. Which problem is that?

[account_inactive]

dylan if i were you id pretend to be a Aussie far more acceptable than being from Lancashire ..........

Fuckin noobs  :roll:

 :wink:

[gollum]

Nice pics Ian. Which problem is that?

Its Inaudible Vaudeville on the Stone, which after all these years still remains one of my favourites on the planet. Great timing and a real sense of being there.

[dobbin]

Feckin love the Bowderstone, its ace.

[hongkongstuey]

sequence of my current fav HK problem - Sleepy Hollow - V5

[Bubba]

That's a nice looking problem.

[chappers]

that last pic is quality.

[hongkongstuey]

that last pic is quality.

I was just happy to have survived - the boulder weighs in at a little over 6m and the final move is a tad on the insecure side

[SA Chris]

Nice pics stu, that jug of justice on the top must be nice to wrap the mitts around.

[hongkongstuey]

a couple of Agent Smiths photos from a week or two back - when it was still stupidly hot and horrible


Slopey V6's in 30 degree heat are not pleasant


neither are heinously hard projects


this is far more appropriate behaviour

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

After the dodgy photoshop antics last week, are we meant to believe this pic? I know Agent Smith likes his rock but having his arm and head amputated and grafted onto his favourite boulder...taking it too far?

[Sloper]

note from bubba:

part I is here :: http://ukbouldering.com/board/viewtopic.php?t=631
part II is here :: http://ukbouldering.com/board/viewtopic.php?p=48980



to kick off part 3 here's irish si showing the way on Sole Power at Froggatt





On Victors Ledge, although I'm not sure which one is Victor  

Not one to be a pedant, but I thought this was spock's missing / business lunch and sole power went up the other side?

Not that I'm that bothered especially as I can claim my first (and probably only) 7c. . . .

[a dense loner]

don't worry about being a pedant. you're just wrong, you can claim your first 7c

[Johnny Brown]

Hmm - a week ago i would have said you were wrong. But... guidebook description says:

Business lunch E4 6c The wall between Chequers crack and Soul (sic) Power gives a direct start to Spock's missing.

No problems with that then...

Sole Power E5 6c The undercut lower arete of the buttress gives a desperate problem.

What we don't know is which side of the arete it climbs... coincidentally, on friday, John welford climbed Sole Power on the right-hand side, thinking it to be a new problem. However it turned out to be easier then on the left, around font 7b/7b+.

I don't have jerry's number to ask the great man, but i do have a copy of big al's original peak guide in which the medallion man is seen on sole power in a boreal advert, sporting embarrassingly stained (or laddered?) tights. He is clearly on the same moves as the irishman above.

So after all that, you are wrong. If you have climbed the left-hand side of the arete as above, you've earned a solid 7c.

p.s. For those in east asia, some of us in the uk are still on dial-up.

[Sloper]

Happy to be wrong in the circumstances!

[SA Chris]

p.s. For those in east asia, some of us in the uk are still on dial-up.

Bit of a jibe there Stu!

Some of us no longer travel by traction engine.

[Bubba]

broadband can be had for a tenner a month - isn't dialup as expensive?

[Fiend]

p.s. For those in east asia, some of us in the uk are still on dial-up.

ROFL, he's got a point though. I suggested a seperate thread for Stuey's mass of quality pictures a while ago  :wink:

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

p.s. For those in east asia, some of us in the uk are still on dial-up.

ROFL, he's got a point though. I suggested a seperate thread for Stuey's mass of quality pictures a while ago  :wink:

Here's a recommendation for Stuey (if he's using XP)...

http://download.microsoft.com/download/whistler/Install/2/WXP/EN-US/ImageResizerPowertoySetup.exe

Free, easy.

Install, then right click any image file to 'resize pictures'.

From http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx where you can find a variety of free toys from the useful to the uber-geeky

[bigphil]

As usual Obi, you are a source of great wisdom when it come to gadgety stuff.  I think the weshot timer cam has huge potential.  Just need a webcam and something to point it at.

[SA Chris]

http://www.gimp.org/  (Gnu Image Manipulation Program, before you raise eyebrows!)

This is good too, a free basic program with most of the facilites on Photoshop.

[hongkongstuey]

p.s. For those in east asia, some of us in the uk are still on dial-up.

how do you survive??

[Obi-Wan is lost...]

p.s. For those in east asia, some of us in the uk are still on dial-up.

how do you survive??

Our stupidly fast work broadband connection went down this morning...it was amazing, I actually witnessed someone READING a book! Incredible what people are reduced to when they don't have a net connection. Give it a couple of days and we'd be chipping stone tablets.  :wink: (and before someone starts...stone tablets that had fallen off the crag naturally)

[Rico]

Incredible what people are reduced to when they don't have a net connection

I'm usually reduced to actually working, which is always unfortunate.