There have been a few additions to Baslow in recent times, but details have all ended up buried in random threads. As I did another new one last week, I thought it might be good to big them all up...
1. Something I discovered on Sunday, which turned out to be much better than it looked. It's a bulge on the left end of the boulder round the side of the Flatworld block.
Lilliput, 7a+From the two lowest holds, chase the edges over the bulge, making judicious use of the foot ramp.
Here's a video from a crap angle, of a rather sloppy ascent. Hitting the top hold I realised I hadn't cleaned the moss off the back, and just had to squeeze the squidge as my body bounced around. All good fun. Notice the hail - crazy weather that day.
2. Andy B mentioned this on another thread, so I assume it's ok to mention it here. Further along the hillside from Fact hunt is another wall, that is easiest to get to from the top track. It is vertical, slightly highball, and on excellent rock. Problems developed by Cofe and Andy B:
The left arete. 6b(what's this called cofe?)
Glove Love 7aThe wall up hairline cracks left of centre
Honeypot Wall 6b The central line (an Al Williams problem)
Mangina 6c Direct/righthand start to Honeypot Wall.
Andy B also did a very small
sit start lip and rock over problem up behind and to the right of Honeypot Wall at
7aish3. Some time ago Neil Travers did some new problems, which are well worth seeking out. Find a path down from the top shortly before the big house-sized boulder down on the slope, assuming you are walking in from Curbar end. This is all uphill from the walnut. The problems are on the edge, so you don't need to scramble downhill at all. Very good problems.
Undercutting, 7a+Climb the wall 1 metre left of the arête to the obvious notch without using the arête.
To avoid confusion, the problem starts "about 1m left of the arete slightly up the bank with right hand on thin undercut/pinch and left on small edge, followed by funny left hand flick to 2 finger undercut to gain the obvious undercut with your right hand."
Heart Stopper 6cClimb the arête from a sit start, don’t use the notch out left.
I'm not entirely convinced about the need to ss and eliminate on this one. From standing, with the notch, it is an excellent done-years-ago highball 6b:
The Ripper (strict) 7c Climb the wall to the right to it’s highest point without using the arête at all, and without veering left at the top.
Nice undercutting to balance up to a couple of small crimps, step up on more smears and bang for the top.
The Ripper (with arete) 7a+ A blind foothold on the arete enables a stiff rock leftwards for the finishing jug.
The Ripper:
Non-eliminate version of undercutting:
4. Elmer Fudd. For those people who can't be bothered to read the grade changes thread, but who have been confused by Elmer Fudd, consenus seems to be that there are two lines:
Elmer Fudd left-hand 6c+Climb the wall just right of the arete
Elmer Fudd right-hand 7aClimb the wall using the starting foothold of Fatworld. Move left and up via poor holds.
