Power Club 711 28 Aug - 2 Sept 2023

[SA Chris]

Pont Des Gets on Mon Lieutenant a very overhanging 7a on rough rock with knobbly holds.

I've walked down there for a look (my aunt and uncle's old place is the auberge with the Heineken sign just up the road), but it's usually covered from the icefall! Didn't think the rock looked that great. Do you have the Arve Guide too?

 

[Simon Lee]

Pont Des Gets on Mon Lieutenant a very overhanging 7a on rough rock with knobbly holds.

I've walked down there for a look (my aunt and uncle's old place is the auberge with the Heineken sign just up the road), but it's usually covered from the icefall! Didn't think the rock looked that great. Do you have the Arve Guide too?

I know where you mean. Was closed when we walked past. The rock is good on the 7a apart from the groove at the top which had signs of hold loss. Being North facing is handy in this heat. Just have the Giffre, Risse, Foron guide - (borrowed from Ian P 4 years ago IIRC :-[ )

 

[SA Chris]

Yeah, it's privately owned, and I think they only spend time there at weekends and winter.

There are good routes here https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/la_frasse_and_treydon-10181/#photos just off the road from Taninges down to Cluses, signposted towards St Sigismond and Les Carroz. I can send you info if you fancy a look. 2 grags from the same parking spot, but very different.

 

[Simon Lee]

Thanks - hadn’t come across those crags. Looks like the options in the low 7’s are limited though and there’s enough at Foron to keep me going.

 

[Steve R]

M. NYM bouldering. Started at Clemmitts which I haven't been to for ~10 years. Dirty and overgrown as no one climbs there after it was nonsensically banned a few years ago.

and is still currently banned according to the RAD, does this need updating? Says negotiations were ongoing. https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/clemitts_crag-8277/

I think it probably does need updating, though not entirely sure to what. Sorry PCers this is getting off topic, perhaps should post somewhere else....
My understanding is it's one of those venues that's now best approached as a 'don't ask, just go' situation. There are clearly no good reasons for people to not boulder there. There was a trials motorbiking competition event there last weekend with courses on and immediately adjacent to the boulders. Scroll down the posts on this facebook page for videos. The Danby Estate must've known about/sanctioned this event. Personally, I don't immediately have a problem with people trials biking there, on organised days at least, but if that's deemed ok then I think it's fair to reason that people should be able to boulder there.

 

[SA Chris]

Thanks - hadn’t come across those crags. Looks like the options in the low 7’s are limited though and there’s enough at Foron to keep me going.

If S fancied some low graded routes to climb, rather then just being belay bunny, the rock on the right of the slab at La Frasse is amazing (that's my foot in the UKC pic).

 

[webbo]

M. NYM bouldering. Started at Clemmitts which I haven't been to for ~10 years. Dirty and overgrown as no one climbs there after it was nonsensically banned a few years ago.

and is still currently banned according to the RAD, does this need updating? Says negotiations were ongoing. https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/crags/clemitts_crag-8277/

I think it probably does need updating, though not entirely sure to what. Sorry PCers this is getting off topic, perhaps should post somewhere else....
My understanding is it's one of those venues that's now best approached as a 'don't ask, just go' situation. There are clearly no good reasons for people to not boulder there. There was a trials motorbiking competition event there last weekend with courses on and immediately adjacent to the boulders. Scroll down the posts on this facebook page for videos. The Danby Estate must've known about/sanctioned this event. Personally, I don't immediately have a problem with people trials biking there, on organised days at least, but if that's deemed ok then I think it's fair to reason that people should be able to boulder there.

I might be wrong but I think when it was banned the locals avoided getting a dispute with the landowner as they also own Danby which I believe is also not on access land. They didn’t want to piss the landowner off in case they lost access to Danby as most of the locals weren’t bothered about bouldering.

 

[Duncan Disorderly]

Just getting round to it - think I missed a week... Club.

Tough times Wellsy - hope you're okay...

M: Drove t'Lakes with daughter
T: Helvellyn with daughter - Only made it up to Red Tarn as is was minging and Em didn't fancy Striding Edge in a cloud (she's 11)...
W: Paddling and swimming
T: Sheaf boulder - PE circuits.
F: Nowt
S: Drove t'Lakes again....
S: Helvellyn with GF - Proper shit weather but really wanted to go up there and Katie seemed keen... That was until we were wandering along Striding Edge without being able to see more than a foot in front of us and it hadn't stopped raining all day - sure tested her resolve. I loved every minute! :lol:

M: Paddling on Connistone
T: AeroCap @ AW - 18 routes up to F6b+
W: Moonboard (2019 @ 25) - Repeated soft 7A and did a new 6C benchie - Ace !
T: Rest
F: Moonboard (2019 @ 25) - Repeated soft 7A again (it's never 7A!) - Worked 7A benchie - hard!
S: Met up with some crazy idiots who thought bouldering on Stanage was a good idea! Got midged to fuck and bailed to Owler Tor - Was better but still shit - Did the circuit up there and went for a pint.
S: Wander int Peak....