Best of 2022

[dunnyg]

I should try it with heels! Beta appreciated

 

[haydn jones]

Cheers nez. It's the high slopers I wasn't using. Looks like a game changer keen for a rematch

 

[kingholmesy]

Not exactly selling it!

The moves are great - and Tom lived to tell the tale so it can’t be that dangerous. :lol:

 

[kingholmesy]

It would appear to be the third ascent according to UKC as Tom went back and RP it.

I know from speaking to him that’s Tom’s not been back on it. He has logged the date he decked it. Should probably be shown as lead dnf rather than lead RP, but don’t suppose it matters.

 

[Gus]

Great stuff. Glad he got away with that fall! No wonder it felt like a solo without the skyhooks!!

That photo of the fall is outrageous!

The route really reminded me of some of those classic grit slab frighteners, with no handholds/ just pebbles for hands. Really enjoyed it!

psyched to go back with my big cam and do some of the cracks!

 

[kingholmesy]

psyched to go back with my big cam and do some of the cracks!

Take a camalot 6 and get on Jack Yer Body. In common with Big Boys Don’t Cry it is also E4, 5c.

The same grade and equally brilliant, but I do not think you could find two routes within 50 metres of each other that are more different.

 

[ali k]

Only just got round to replying to this, but just wanted to say thanks for all the messages of sympathy on here and in private. To see me you wouldn’t have a clue anything is wrong, which is weird. Apparently with livers you can often be completely asymptomatic almost until the point it just gives up and goes into complete failure. So it’s lucky I was even diagnosed when I was.

Re transplants - live liver transplant is also an option. Pretty amazingly both donor and recipient organs apparently can grow back to full size. Had two family members offer this so hopefully can get sorted when the time comes!

 

[SA Chris]

Bizarrely I just read the section on the liver in Bill Bryson's "The Body" and it said exactly that.

A good reason to carry a donor card to ensure your bits are repurposed as swiftly as possible should anything unfortunate happen.

 

[remus]

• Trav proj at Moat Buttress (basically a short version of Against the Current) - Put quite a few sessions in to this and worked out some nice beta, only for some of the holds to fall off. Worked out some more beta but then it got hot and it was pretty much a write off for the rest of the summer. Definitely a spanking in terms of not getting close, but psyched for a rematch. Maybe that is more light flagellation than a full spanking?

Which holds have fallen off Against The Current Remus?

Had another session on this today and got a pic for you https://photos.app.goo.gl/p87qHXVPzydRgrWL7

The circled hold on the left is the beak, the top hold is the thin glued crimp and the right most hold is the flakey undercut I was using that is now broken. There's still something left on it but it's a lot less positive than it used to be and doesn't work for me any more.

 

[Andy B]

Thanks Remus.