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The Shucks Lair
May 14, 2007, 01:45:00 pm
Thanks to Moo getting lost the other week, while trying to find Aeons, we've found and developed a new buttress in the vicinity of Fairy Steps. Sorry JB I just can't get enough of "prancing round these wanky limestone 'bouldering' venues"  :P .

Casimir Effect





The Cappel



Topo...
https://secure.mmm.co.uk/sei/s/1284/f97.pdf



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#1 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 14, 2007, 02:35:42 pm
Another nice find.  Well done!!!.....again  :lol:

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#2 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 14, 2007, 03:42:36 pm
Likewise, nice one Greg and thanks for the rapid topo creation.  Funnily enough I was looking around that side of the hill the other week wondering about the possibilities of further discoveries.  Obviously I didn't get so far as actually looking very hard.

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#3 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 14, 2007, 04:32:19 pm

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#4 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 15, 2007, 09:01:30 am
Myself and MB added another three fine problems here last night. This truly is a superb addition to the Fairy Steps circuit as unlike all the other sectors it has a high concentration of hard problems in one area - 1/6c 1/7a 2/7a+'s 2/7b's 2/7b+'s.   :read:
« Last Edit: May 15, 2007, 09:08:41 am by Greg C »

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#5 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 15, 2007, 09:27:40 am
Nice one Team Lakes and good work on the prompt topo generation.

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#6 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 15, 2007, 09:46:21 am
Yeah it looks superb and will receive a visit from the Liverpool massive once this rain stops. 

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#7 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 17, 2007, 11:36:56 pm
Speaking of new developments, I notice you missed out on this World Class Venue, Greg.  You must be slipping mate!!!  These look like some of the best lines on northern Lime.  Or were you classing it as "Lancashire" and waiting for R-Man to develop it?   :lol:

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#8 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 18, 2007, 07:50:48 am
That topo (of tatooine) is a classic. Not that I can talk about climbing in chossy shitpiles though.

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#9 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 18, 2007, 09:23:21 am
A 22 page epic no less. I thought the days of the bourgeoisie developing crags were long gone? Shame the Reverend's writing skills had been modernised. Should have read something like:

"The Reverend stood atop the sweeping gully, donning his breaches and nail boots. 'O.K!' cried Hitherington-Parker Jessop, and at once the Reverend continued to move with great courage and élan up the damp chasm."

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#10 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 18, 2007, 01:58:47 pm
Another nice find.  Well done!!!.....again  :lol:

You are taking the piss, no?

It looks aweful

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#11 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 18, 2007, 02:04:28 pm
It looks aweful

Awesomely awful, or awfully awesome?

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#12 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 18, 2007, 02:08:16 pm
ahem!  I meant awful awful

as in I'd rather be in a Lancashire quarry

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#13 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 18, 2007, 02:11:23 pm
Dylan, has dense taken over your computer?

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#14 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 22, 2007, 12:24:35 pm
A few new additions here including a tough cookie in the shape of the project crack: http://www.lakesbloc.co.uk/8.html

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#15 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 22, 2007, 12:28:25 pm
Another nice find.  Well done!!!.....again  :lol:

You are taking the piss, no?

It looks aweful

I think perhaps the images above don't do the crag justice, but even so this comment seems a slightly offhand? The crag is as good as most limestone bouldering in the UK... of course if you don't like limestone then perhaps it is shit  :-\ .

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#16 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 22, 2007, 02:08:19 pm
Another nice find.  Well done!!!.....again  :lol:

You are taking the piss, no?

It looks aweful

I think perhaps the images above don't do the crag justice, but even so this comment seems a slightly offhand? The crag is as good as most limestone bouldering in the UK... of course if you don't like limestone then perhaps it is shit  :-\ .

greg, i think that they are talking about the sit crag that they have linked to rather than the crag that tom and your goodself has found (wich does indeed look good).
the shit crag does indeed look amazingly bad.

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#17 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 22, 2007, 04:14:08 pm
Spot on there Chappers.
Greg- your crag looks good.
Reverend- your crag ain't.  Sorry.

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#18 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 22, 2007, 11:06:46 pm
look good to me

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#19 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 23, 2007, 09:46:08 am
N1 Greg that crack looked nails as i remember. :thumbsup:

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#20 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 25, 2007, 08:44:07 am
Little video:

Includes: The Slope-a-Dope, Brane World and The Cappel.

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#21 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 25, 2007, 11:14:25 am
Little video:

Includes: The Slope-a-Dope, Brane World and The Cappel.

Is this one of the haunted places or will going alone see me running away?

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#22 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 25, 2007, 11:34:51 am
Well I wouldn't like to totally right off the possibility of seeing a ghost but it's not notorious for phantoms, demon dogs on the other hand...

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#23 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 25, 2007, 10:47:53 pm
Just noticed this on UKC News:
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So writes Greg Chapman, Lakes bouldering guru, describing how he came to name a new limestone buttress on the northern flanks of Longtail Wood in a close proximity to the well documented tiers of Fairy Steps.

Now I'm not allowed to big up Chapman too much as he will lose street cred at his hang at UKBouldering.com (as most of them read UKClimbing.com...and word travels fast), but here's another of his little bouldering video guides to this recently virgin buttress
:lol: :lol:

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#24 Re: The Shucks Lair
May 26, 2007, 02:19:16 pm
What can I say, Mick is a tool. I'm glad some of the UKC chumps did'nt like the music  :wave:

 

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