from V12 Outdoor - Climbing news
Ian Lloyd-Jones has joined up with his usual partner in crime, Sion McGuiness, to complete another big sport route in Twll Mawr.
Black Holes and Revelations F6b, F7a tackles a line of grooves left of Supermassive Black Hole in one big 50m pitch. Access is made by a rather quirky Wobbly Ladder pitch which reaches the [...]
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
This weekend John , Dave , Tim and I all headed over to the Peak district for a spot of bouldering and sending some routes. We arrived at Ramshaw first and soloed several routes to get warmed up. Loaf and Cheese (VS 4c), Wall and Groove (VD), The Arete (S 4a) and Leeds Crack (D). We then went down to the main event. Everyone wanted to try Tierdrop (E5 6b). Its a classic mirco route which is usually climbed with pads and spotters which is exactly what we did. Quite a high ball problem but safe with a big
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from Ian Parnell Photography
Part 2 of my 'adventure break' was something of mixed success or rather a mixed disaster. Things started well with a return to Ladram Bay with Jon and a mighty new route on the Lost World stack. Realistically it's probably not the best route in the world. In fact it's probably the second worst. It did have a nice finishing mud arete though And some entertaining gear - this is part of the belay - there was no crack before I placed the warthog. How we laughed... Then after a very long drive we arrived at ...
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
On the first free ascent of Bongo Bar, Blamman, Norway. 400m, 7b+, 7b+, 8a, 7c, 7b, 6c, 7a, 6b. Photo: Paul Diffley/Hot Aches Productions.More pictures on the Gore-Tex facebook page shortly, and also on Julia's blog and Hot Aches blog . Between the three of us, we have climbed a ton of superb granite routes during our stay in Kvaloya. Some of the classic established routes, which are as good as anywhere in the world, and a few great new routes. But before coming here, the biggest thing in my mind that I
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from Dave MacLeod Climbing
Yesterday the weirdest thing happened to me. I’d already been to AE at the Belford for an X-ray of my left foot since it was still feeling extremely painful if I weighted the medial side of my foot on the Sesamoid with my big toe pulled up. It was feeling like something was definitely wrong. It was getting worse every day. The X-ray returned a negative for broken bones but just a comment that I had the weirdest feet they had ever seen. But still no explanation for the very targeted pain, except that it
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from 2010 Mountaineering Season
Keywords:
Forest,
Noah!,
Peak 7,691,
glacier kitchen!,
blog last night,
good today,
Glacier Travel,
Forest Wagner,
cook tents,
great group
Students on a 12-day Course with their glacier kitchen!
Forest Wagner called to pass along their update for the blog last night after they got their cook tents set up and in the groove for making dinner. Yesterday (Thursday) they climbed "Peak 7,691" and if they weather is good today (it is!) they will attempt another peak. They are doing well with Glacier Travel, their spirits are high they have a great group. Yippee!
~Blogger Julia
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from V12 Outdoor - Climbing news
Andy Scott and Pete Murrell have climbed a bold new line on the Middle Rock section of Clogwyn Du’r Arddu. St Peters Close E4/5 6a climbs the hanging slab and arete between Moonshine and Birthday Crack.
Description: start as for Birthday Crack, climbing the pleasant blocky wall. Where this follows the groove on the right, move [...]
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from V12 Outdoor - Climbing news
Ian Lloyd-Jones and Sion McGuinness have established an impressive four pitch sport route on the South Wall of Twll Mawr. Supermassive Black Hole F7a, F6b+, F7a/6c+, F6b tackles the line of grooves left of Steve Mayers’ little known F7c+, Running Scared.
The route can be accessed through the Twll Mawr/Peregrine Wall Tunnels and walking down the [...]
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from V12 Outdoor - Climbing news
Dan McManus has made an impressive onsight ascent of a well known and much tried Deep Water Solo project in Sea Cave Zawn at Rhoscolyn. The cave underneath the classic Electric Blue is a complicated mass of hanging fins and grooves, all very 3d. The idea of crossing it from its right wall was as [...]
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from Guy Steven - Mountain Leader
Today brought us good sunny weather with a light wind so Caff and I headed up to Diffwys Ddu (Cyrn Las Grey Horn) in Llanberis Pass. I had not been up here before so it was good to get up here while it is dry. Caff had only a couple of routes to do before he had done all the routes on this crag. We started up on The Grooves (E1 5b) and we finished on The Undercut (E5 6b), a route which hasnt had a second ascent. The route had plenty of pegs which are all in great condition with some great pumpy climbing.
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