Dorset DWS

Recently I headed back down south for some southern limestone action, one of the crags I visited was Lulworth Cove which has excellent DWS from about 6b to 8a though the majority of the routes are in the 7’s. Below are some pictures from Lulworth.

The First set of images are of Bob Hickish on Window-Chrome 8a+.

    Latching the dyno low down on the route

Chalking up and eyeing up the crux

Moving through the holds of crux

Making shapes on the crux.

One of the classics of Lulworth is the 7c Mark of the Beast, below are some photos of Bob, Felix and Andy on the Route.

 Felix going big

Felix resting out at about halfway

Andy readying himself for the rest of the route

Andy doing another one of the routes big moves, this time towards the top

Bob setting off.

Adventures In Cheedale

I’ve taken quite a few images over this weekend from Cheedale Cornice, so for ease of viewing have broken them up in the previous three posts.

• Dan Walker doing Unleashing the Wild Physique 8a
• Bob Hickish on R’n’P 8a+
• Frenchie inspired arty stuff.

 The walk in to Cheedale Cornice

Unleashing the Wild Physique

I took a couple of sequences of images of people on the this climb, first are a selection of Joe Cook working the route.

The second sequence is of Dan Walker going for a successful redpoint.

 

Post redpoint elation!

R’n’P

Below are a few photos of Bob Hickish on R’n’P 8a+.

 Eyeing up Slap no.1 from the undercuts

 Holding  Slap no.1

  Latching Slap no.2

Arty Stuff

I’ve been looking at lots of European climbing photography recently as a way of procrastinating and liked the look of many of their de-saturated/overexposed style images, I thought I’d try my hand at it with some of the Cheedale Shots, below are some examples.

   Alex Barrows working R’n’P

Bob Hickish on R'’n’P

Dan Walker setting off up Unleashing the Wild Physique

Dan on the top wall of Unleashing

Cheedale Cornice

After all the dry weather we’ve had recently the Cheedale Cornice has become climbable, In my opinion this is possibly the nicest crag I’ve climbed at in the peaks so far. Below are some photos to try and sum up my first trip there.

     Unidentified herbs growing round the cornice 

A view from the cornice down the river

The left hand end of the cornice, unfortunately this is still a bit damp.

Bob Hickish high on one of the (7b+) right-hand routes
  Bob on Powerplant 8a
  Bob making the knee-bar stick on Powerplant

An attempt at a bit of an arty shot.

A Few More Limestone Pictures

  The title says it all, bouldering on quality limestone, does it get any better?