Tuesday 28 September 2010

Saline Drip

Now the left hand end of Chee Dale Cornice is pretty much a waterfall it’s back to the ‘Tor, here a couple of shots of Chris Barr testing out the Gastons on Saline Drip.

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Sunday 12 September 2010

Roof Warrior

Mark Tomlinson came up to the peak from the deepest depths of devon, while he was up he did a classic 8a down Cheedale ‘Roof Warrior’ some photos are below.

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A Brief Foray to Churnet

Recently I went on a short trip to the Churnet sandstone with alex, its an awesome little place, good quality rock tucked away in the woods.
Below are two photos of alex on the classic 6C ‘The Nose’
 

Friday 3 September 2010

Jaws

In July i went to Pembroke with Gav Symonds and Bob Hickish, they both successfully soloed an 8a DWS called ‘Jaw’ below are some of the photos. Untitled_Panorama1A Pembrokeshire beach (click here for larger version)

Untitled_Panorama2Another section of Pembroke Coastline (click here for larger version)

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_MG_8659Gav sending Jaws (click here for larger version)

Clearing The Backlog - Gordale

Between actually climbing and revising for uni retakes i havent been able to put up any pictures for a while. These are from Gordale when Bob did Huecool – 8b and Alex did the hardest 6b+ in the world!

 Alex warming up on the easier routes (click here for larger size)

 Alex on Red Rhinoceros- 6b+

 The finishing move of Red Rhinoceros

  Bob starting off up Huecool – 8b

 Moving towards the cave- the famous feature of Gordale

 Making shapes on the upper wall of Huecool

 An arty picture of a rope!