tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2389506356956506962024-03-13T21:27:21.322-07:00White GoodsDrytooling, Mixed climbing crag in North WalesAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09270862095821085199noreply@blogger.comBlogger69125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238950635695650696.post-72099437024063010862014-10-21T09:17:00.001-07:002014-11-02T15:13:32.297-08:00White Goods 2014 meet updateFirst of all, the news are that Tim Emmett paid a swift visit to our beloved little grotty cliff and made a quick repeat of "Careful Torque". I got the impression he rather liked the route. Let's hope it will contribute towards Timmy's successes this winter. Also Will Gadd and Sarah Huikenen held a masterclass there, so the place is getting some attention!<br />
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So, the day for the Drytooling Meet at White Goods is fast approaching. Here's a bit more information about the weekend:<br />
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The <b>Saturday 8th November </b>we'll meet at the crag around 10am. Please park up down at the Pwll-glas village (see map below) and not at the crag as there not enough spaces. It's a 15min walk to the crag. We'll meet at the crag for a quick briefing and hand-over of scorecards.<br />
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We can all meet at the carpark around 9.30 and make our way to the crag. If you get there earlier or later, just follow the steep country road up to the golf club for about 10-15 min and when this levels, there's a track on your right that leads to the crag.</div>
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Some of us we'll head back to the Griffin pub and try to sort out the camping and to make sure they can accommodate all of us. Unlike the old management, new management and they haven't been very responsive so far. We hope everything will work out on the day. Here are the directions to the pub.</div>
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People with vans can't drive into the camping space, so they will have to find a dossing spot either in parking outside for that night, or if that's full, in the surrounding area. There's plenty of options around the pub.<br />
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The criteria for the competition is a bit random but we try to be fair. So if you won last year, it might be a bit harder to win this year unless you do something pretty spectacular. We try to give prizes to the best efforts, being from hardy mountain men, uber-wads or total novices. This year we want to give a prize to the best girl effort as well. We try to not to give prizes to our mates (for them to gives an earful at the pub...), but since this event is starting to become a family gathering it becomes harder to award prizes. </div>
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We hope that everyone will have a good time, maybe forge some future partnerships for the hills and get motivated to train hard for the winter.<br />
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The White Goods Drytooling meet is back for a third year running. This year, the crafty organizer Mr. Garry decided that he had too much on his plate already and declined the job of organizing the meet. For some of us the format seemed a bit repetitive and wondered what appeal it still had. A quick social media round-up showed that very much there was a public demand for a tooling gathering south of the border. All the other tooling events seemed to be based around a serious competition, with rules an all, and our meet seemed to be more just and excuse for, well, meet up with other fellow motivated winter climbers. So we decided that it was worth doing it all over again and keep promoting the dark art of Drytooling and strengthen the winter community, and basically have a good excuse to drink beer and banter.</div>
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Obviously, we don't posses the organisational skills of Mr. Garry, so this year's event will be a bit more relaxed and participants will have to help us out a little bit. We will still have some ice axes to try on the day, the usual friendly competition, Ally Swinton will be giving a little talk about his exploits as a Chamonix residents and might even have a raffle as well. DMM, Alpkit and E-Climb have kindly supported the event with prizes and gear for the third year running and we are grateful for it. </div>
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All the after climbing socializing will happen at <a href="http://www.griffinllanbedr.co.uk/">The Griffin</a> pub just outside Ruthin. We are still discussing what room we can have for our group of thirsty and hungry climbers. It all depends on the total numbers. Last year we had registration form, but this year we are trying to do without. So if you are thinking of coming, please confirm on the Facebook event page as soon as you can so we can inform The Griffin. We would also recommend to give The Griffin a call to notify them how many of your group are coming. It will give them a better idea of many more staff they need to get in that night to cater for us. That would really help us.</div>
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Below is the scorecard for the friendly competition we usually hold. As most of you know, we normally choose a bunch of "winners" based on effort and motivation, so everyone can win something. I know it's not a very methodic way to award prizes but we try our best to be fair and for everyone to have a good chance to win something.</div>
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The meeting place is The Griffin Pub on Saturday the 8th at 10am. Get there before if you want breakfast or coffee. We'll have a quick de-brief for the day and run quickly through the health & safety and then we all drive to the <a href="https://www.google.co.uk/maps/place/1+Lon+Fawr,+Ruthin,+Denbighshire+LL15+2AA/@53.1111686,-3.3195348,419m/data=!3m2!1e3!4b1!4m2!3m1!1s0x4865331247063bb7:0x6078d9544a400d80">rugby club</a> where we can all park and a few willing souls (with vans!) will ferry people to the crag, as the parking there is very limited.</div>
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<br />Ramon Marinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00692789764322711921noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238950635695650696.post-55413727708580147072014-06-27T03:38:00.003-07:002014-06-27T03:38:20.550-07:00 <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">North East Wales Mountaineering Club asked a favour ... so here it is !!</span> <br />
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Mr Marin returned last weekend to the Goods, and as ever he was in top form. Not content with finishing Simon Frosts Project on the Ready Stead Hook wall a couple of weeks back producing Careful Torque M11, Mr Marin decided to revers the thing throwing in the crux of some of the best routes at that part of the crag.<br />
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Teaming up with Andy Turner and Vicky, Ramon spied the line that starts up ready stead hook steams through the (M10) roof then reverses the Careful torque lip before taking in the crux of the finnish start (M10) and finishing up the tricky M9 finish of tumble in the jungle.<br />
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The Machine as ever put in a top performance and Flashed the bloody thing!!.. and called it<br />
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I received a text on Saturday afternoon informing me of the new line, I was supposed to be in Scotland but a sub tropical warm spell put an end to that and saw me earning brownie points in the kitchen instead..By that time Andy had already grabbed the second ascent.<br />
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And so the White Goods Meet 2013 broke loose, tipped a little and then trundled into
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So once again Climbers from around country where invited to join us for a weekend of cranking and socializing and once again to my surprise on the weekend of the 16th November most of them turned up with freshly sharpened picks and a cheeky gleam in their eye. Those that had been the year before new what to expect those that hadn't had some how heard stories..not all of them strictly true.</div>
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And with support from<a href="http://dmmclimbing.com/" target="_blank"> DMM</a>, <a href="http://www.alpkit.com/" target="_blank">ALPKIT</a>, and<a href="http://www.e-climb.com/es/" target="_blank"> E-CLIMB</a> them there goodies were blooming brilliant. </div>
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Encouraged by the warm and wet Team Scotland pulled out all the stops, cramming their strong boys into the Back of Simon Yearsleys van for a 6 hr drive to the pub. With most of the van appearing in the final of the Ice Factory competition just weeks before we where expecting big things. What if they cruised everything and declared the crag useless or worse Pish!!. As it happens the delicate nature of the routes at White Goods had our pocket pulling friends foxed for a time, power is nothing without control they say and one thing the Goods is good at is teaching you control...oh and how to pop off a hold that previously work just fine. Expletives where let loose and several declared that what was needed was a bloody good Hilti, when this was poo pooed one even took to trying to rip the crag down in disgust, how very dare you I thought as I ran for cover. Eventually the the guys sat for a while, became one with crag and bared their sole in order to hone their technique. A whispering wind spoke as it brushed between the trees "softly softly sees you at the top my friend....er I a means pal like ya ken" with the new mantra they soon got the sends they were looking for, some even coming via torch light.... no not that torch light the head torch sort. Good work Boys</div>
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As the sun set most headed back to the Griffin Inn in order to fill their belly and sup some ale. For those who don't know the Griffin I feel its important to point out the close relationship that this pub has had with the crag since its birth all those years ago. After our first visit to the crag Simon Frost and I nursed our wounds as we sat around its fire, the name White Goods was born their some month later..most new routes have been christened and named there, some old routes have been supped too also..but most importantly the meet was first mentioned there, an Idea born in a boozer that ends in a boozer cant be half bad in my eyes. So if you are ever at the crag be sure to pop in and show your support for our adopted local.</div>
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After dinner we all had the pleasure of sitting down to listen to our Good Friend Simon Yearsley harp on about some made up place north of Yorkshire ..I distinctly remember him saying a while back that he was the font of all knowledge when it came to Welsh Winter.. turns out I was so very wrong. Anyway with the aid of a good book and some imagination he took us on a blissfully inspirational tour through his photo album. Lost lands, far off crags and blind races for hidden gems have got my Winter Juices flowing hand who knows I may even take a leaf out of his book and venture North to the Land he called "scotts". Now I don't know this Scott fella but he seems to have one heck of a back garden. </div>
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While others nursed their hangovers and fell of warm up routes Ramon picked his way up the delicate starting moves of tumble in the jungle, as he reached the the finnish start people soon realized what he was doing and a hush fell across the crag. A long shake out ensued, the silence was broken momentarily by a few shouts of encouragement. He launched out onto the lip, fig 4 and 9ing his way across before power screaming his way onto the head wall. Every spectator mentally battling with the obvious rope drag as he made each hard fought clip. he cant fluff it now. I knew that a man of his caliber was too smart to fail at the last hurdle. He rested for what felt like an eternity, then cool as you like made the last 2 clips and lowered to the ground. The crowd go wild. Careful Torque M11 was born. </div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09270862095821085199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238950635695650696.post-44799085442588615812013-10-26T08:00:00.000-07:002013-10-26T08:00:36.007-07:00Quick Clean up and some Stump Man Hey up ..<br />
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The Goods is getting popular again it must be that time of year..<br />
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good news is I have checked and and sorted all the stiff draws so hopefully no more problems there<br />
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on general news Stump Man got its 3 & 4th Accent ...and without the tree used on the FA ..<br />
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See <a href="http://andyturnerclimbing.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Andy's Blog </a> or <a href="http://www.davegarry.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">Dave's Blog</a> for details.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09270862095821085199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238950635695650696.post-67179388613925585062013-10-21T13:33:00.000-07:002013-10-21T13:33:22.075-07:00White Goods Meet 2013 Hey Ho Ladies and Germs<br />
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into this 2 man tent”. In short if you have a mate make sure you share with
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09270862095821085199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238950635695650696.post-57312540972308305272013-09-03T10:13:00.000-07:002013-09-03T10:13:01.428-07:00White Goods Meet 2013 <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ladies and Germs</span><br />
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09270862095821085199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238950635695650696.post-20232205898301656532013-06-30T13:12:00.000-07:002013-06-30T13:17:35.339-07:00WHITE GOODS MEET 2K13 - Its a Goods thing the revenge <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well now Boys and Girls </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Back by popular demand .....its the White Goods Annual meet .... "Revenge of the annual gathering of dirty toolers, held yearly every 12 months or so. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After the resounding success of last years event (well what could go wrong when you point a load of hairy climbers at a bar) we have decided to go for round two. Similar to last year but better. Same Venue same month. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Again this year we will have goodies from Upraw & Alpkit plus some support from E Climb and new for this year we will have some brand new tools from DMM to test. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I was even thinking of a t shirt ...anyone interested ? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So if you enjoyed last year and want some more put a big red X on your calendar and dig out the file you tidied away this winter..if you missed last year well that was your loss .. But don't be such a fool this year and book the weekend off with the other half now. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">On a slightly different note, White Goods Friend and UpRaw snack bar guru Sol Fernandez has been having a difficult time of late after just trying to do his duty. We would be grateful if you would show your support by reading and if you like sharing this:</span><br />
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Posted by <a href="http://kensington.londoninformer.co.uk/chorrox" style="color: #0e3d82; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">Camilla Horrox</a> on Jun 28, 13 10:09 AM <a href="http://kensington.londoninformer.co.uk/news/" style="color: #0e3d82; outline: none; text-decoration: none;">in News</a></div>
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Firefighter Salomon Fernandez, based at North Kensington fire station in Ladbroke Grove, was called to a fire at flats in Portnall Road in the early hours of April 28 last year.</div>
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Smoke was billowing from the property, and, realising the gravity of the situation, Mr Fernandez immediately entered the building with colleagues and performed a snatch rescue of the casualty, sustaining a shoulder injury in the process.</div>
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However, Mr Fernandez's heroic actions were later the subject of a 'performance development plan', as part of which London Fire Brigade managers criticised his decision to enter the building before rigging in his full firefighting kit and rebuked his failure to comply with manual handling regulations in the manner that he rescued the casualty.</div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white;">Ladies and Gents in light of the recent political protest and acts of vandalism by the<b> People's Climbing Front of the English Lake District' </b>a national Warning has been sent out to all Drytoolers and as a precaution the National toolers threat level has now been increased to </span><span style="background-color: white;">Level Two; Moderate</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #0b0c0c; line-height: 25px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Moderate - an attack is possible but not likely</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="color: #0b0c0c;"><span style="line-height: 25px;">Ongoing investigations in to the mindless attack on the works are ...er ongoing, but until we know how deep set this dangerous cell are we advise everyone to be on their guard, who knows your partner might one of them ... !! Have you ever mentioned sharpening your picks to them to be met with rolled eyes? ... think about it and take a good look at your so called friend.</span></span></span></span><br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09270862095821085199noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238950635695650696.post-27892628416373195342013-04-18T02:50:00.001-07:002013-04-18T07:22:43.438-07:00New Route on the North Side of the Arete des Cosmique for Mr Beta. <span style="color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dave "the Beta" Almond has been busy again and this time with his Good friend Mark Thomas</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mark has been a full-time UIAGM International Mountain Guide for the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">last five years whilst Dave runs a family business selling building </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">materials. Having climbed together for about 10 years Dave still likes </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">telling people that he taught Mark everything he </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">knows. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">Maybe he did? </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well on a recent trip to the alps it seems the team put all that they have taught each other into a pot and pulled out some honey in the form of Jottnar. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Jottnar </b></span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Climbs a formidable line up the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <i><b>North side of the </b></i></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><b>Arête des Cosmiques</b></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><i><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">The route started after we had been scared off a route on Pointe </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">Lachenal due to avalanche risk on the approach slopes. Mark had spotted </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">the steep thin line of ice that comprised pitch 4 whilst guiding </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">clients and suggested we took a look at it. Due to building work you </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">can't rappel in to the Passerelle Couloir off the bridge so we </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">rappelled in off the top of the Cosmique ridge to the bottom of pitch </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">four with the intention of abbing all the way to the couloir, but the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> ground became progressively steeper so we decided due to the lack of </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">time, that we had better just climb out from there. We had a good look </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">at the whole route from the bridge and stabbed a finger at the line</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> that we eventually took. </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">Two days later we returned, having been stormed off any other options, </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> and rappelled in to the couloir off a frame work under the viewing </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> platform at the top of the Cosmique ridge. We made two rappels into </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">the couloir followed by two more down the couloir to the base of the</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> route. Looking up, we saw what looked like reasonable ground for pitch </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">one but we new that we had a scary traverse across a snowfield that</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> looked like it would slide off the slab it was on as soon as I touched</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> it. We ended up having to move together to allow me to get to a good </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">flake belay on the far side of it. We both commented that the snowfield </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> felt like a mini "White spider" and that the route had a good feel to</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> it. Mark continued up the next pitch grading it V,5 which pulled </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> through some overhanging flakes and followed a feint groove line to the </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">base of the cracked yellow and red wall. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Dave would also like to mention that they climbed it <span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;">without using pitons or using any aid or tension moves and hope that</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #454545;"> anyone that attempts it uses the same ethics. </span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Anyway, while I have been sat nursing my ankle many of the regulars to the crag have been taking full advantage of the Stella ice to be had in them there hills. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 22px;">Pete Harrison has been as active as ever first teaming up with Rob Pitt to put up<b><i> </i></b></span><strong style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 22px;"><i>Grey Ghost </i></strong><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 22px;"><b><i>VI 6</i></b> on Glyder Fawr, </span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 22px;"><i>said to be a stunning route tackling the corner line and icefall left of </i></span><em style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 22px;">Grey Arete. Then he headed out to </em><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 22px;">Craig Cwm Du with Steve Long to climb </span><strong style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 22px;"><i>Adam Rib</i></strong><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 22px;"><b><i> VI 7</i></b> and argued it was the best route he'd climbed this season. </span></span><em style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> Finally, just days ago he headed out again with Steve Long to </em><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;">Cwm Silyn to add</span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </span><strong style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"><i>Frozen in Time</i></strong><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><b><i> VIII 7</i></b> to his list of this seasons first ascents. Frozen in time follows a line of desperately thin ice linking overhangs and Icicles..sounds great I think you would agree! </span></span></span><em style="background-color: #f7f7f7; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 22px;"> </em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 22px;"><i>On hearing of the new "It Crag" Simon Frost and Adam Crook also took a trip to Cwm Silyn and were not disappointed. Climbing the obvious line of Ice daggers just right of Frozen in Time they put up</i></span><i><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 22px;"> </span><strong style="line-height: 22px;">Pillars of Silyn</strong><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 22px;"> </span><span style="background-color: #f7f7f7; line-height: 22px;">VI 6. </span></i></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> And as of last Saturday slim (at least a soupcon positive) turned into "sorry son this season is done for you and don't go getting your hopes up for spring" </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So as I sit with leg in a Robo cop esk brace I know whole Hartedly I wont be sharpening my pick any time soon. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Time For the winter round up !! (for those that don't know this is kind of what the regulars have been up to sort of thing) </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well it was a strange season wasn't it, weeks of hanging about wishing for the thermometer to drop then sudden flourishes of superb conditions.. a little frustrating at times but for those that had the time to take advantage it bore tasty and rare fruit. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><em>Travesty VIII 8</em></strong> - Early in the season this got a couple of assents, Myself and Mr Bump the head Griffiths kick off our season by ticking this straight out the gate. Not to be out done Tom Livingston and Si Frost knocked it off a couple of days later.</span> <br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><strong><em>Lateo X 10</em></strong> - after a little gap in the conditions Pete Harrison took the first opportunity he could to get back on his Clogwyn Du project and got himself the first accent of what is being reported as </span><a href="http://news.v12outdoor.com/2013/01/17/lateo-x-10-north-wales-hardest-winter-route/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The Hardest Winter Route in North Wales</span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> read some more thoughts on the route </span><a href="http://thetrophywivesoftheastronaughts.wordpress.com/2013/01/16/lateo/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Here on Petes Blog </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Just days later I was lucky enough to team up with Tom Livingston and nab the second accent. More about that on </span><a href="http://news.v12outdoor.com/2013/01/21/dave-garry-flashes-second-ascent-of-lateo-x-10/" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">V12 News </span></a><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> and my dribbling and a little video here </span><a href="http://davegarry.blogspot.co.uk/#!/2013/01/unknowns.html" target="_blank"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Part time Punter </span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Several New comers to the crag made accents of the devils appendix and Clare Coren continued her improved form with more Vs & VI's in the Lakes and North of the boarder. More about Clares improvements <a href="http://whitegood.blogspot.co.uk/#!/2013/01/what-could-white-goods-do-for-you.html" target="_blank">here</a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Dave "the Beta" Almond and Si "Orange Crush" Frost have tried numerous hard and ambitious new lines this season. Sadly non have born fruit yet as they have been rebuffed by conditions, technical difficulties and the need for larger testis. I am in no doubt that a rematch will be on the cards with some of these lines next season. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Mid season Mr Beta teamed up with the up and coming strong girl Helen Renard for a monster week in Scotland ticking off classics each day and even managing to put in a link up line on the Secret/Cornicopia Wall on the Ben. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">As for the Calendar model Ramon Marin aka Mr October...well </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">well he spent most of his season looking for dry sports routes to climb, but when he eventually did turn his mind to the ice bats ..as ever he came out smelling of roses. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;">Find out why we all Hate Ramon so much <a href="http://ramonmarin-uk.blogspot.co.uk/#!/2013/03/winter-rebound.html" target="_blank">here </a> bloody Spaniards !! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana;"></span><br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09270862095821085199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238950635695650696.post-91888667470081654972013-01-22T13:20:00.000-08:002014-08-11T02:16:48.605-07:00What could White Goods do for you ? <span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Well have you ever thought that? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">A year or so back I wrote a little about what climbing at our beloved white goods had done for some of the people involved in developing the crag. In a way it was almost to justify its existence, but now I feel the need to look into it again. This crag, and the likes of the works and newtyle have all helped to raise drytooling out of the gutter and almost into the mainstream. And this I think is largely due to the people involved, not only the activists spending weekends drilling and cleaning but the day to day climbers using and enjoying the crags. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So when I ask what could white goods do for you, what I really mean is, what could dry tooling do for you? </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I asked a similar question to two individuals, One you may know, one you may not, both fairly new to white goods and one new to drytooling completely </span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">The difference; having ice axes thrust in my hand and told to hook, torque and stein-pull on holds surrounded by carpet tiles! Clumsy, noisy and unbalanced is how I would describe performance in my first session; and the use of helmets indoors a must ; its so easy to drop one of the axes when you don’t have a leash!!! (Sorry Adam!) . But up for a new challenge, I persevered. I also had good role models; not that I realised how good till recently; Dave Garry, Simon Frost, Dave Almond, Neil Griffiths and Adam Crook; a pride of strong, creative, inventive animals who set the problems , then set harder ones. Myself and Nicole Almond try to keep up by lay-backing up the side wall moving axes then feet, or balancing on axes that then pop off because our elbows rose too high – its been a great place to watch, learn and make mistakes. <br />Then there is White Goods, although not often visited, its enough to show me my footwork needed work, pushing myself on huge roofs and falling off is a good stretch both physically and technically. Nicole even managed M7 at the white good meet. </span></em><br />
<em><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><br />So this weekend the moves didn’t feel so alien, the axes became more of a help than hindrance, & I didn’t waste energy hacking away in vain in turf or for ice but trusted the weight and angles of the axe instead. I remember saying to my partner, “I am channelling Dave Garry!!” as I wrapped both axes , facing one another around the back of a protruding rock allowing me to pull up and around the bulge. <br />
So far the dry tooling has paid off but <strong>two words of warning;</strong> <strong>first</strong>, my colleagues refuse to hear anything but “dry-humping.” <strong>Secondly</strong> I was recently introduced to the notorious Joe Healey of 1980’s climbing fame. “ This is Clare , she’s into dry-tooling “ to which he replied, “ Oh... I’m ok with lesbians” <br />So dry tooling not just for humpers, lesbians, or strong men.. but good for us girls too.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><em>White Goods delivers the Goods<br /><br />My background as a winter climber is like
most people's: get out as much as possible and move up the grades slowly.
Without too much effort I found that I could do grade 5s and some grade 6s. I
had also found myself on some grade 7s, but it all felt quite desperate at this
grade. About a year ago I started taking my climbing a bit more seriously and
wanted to push my grade; a friend suggested 'training'. A bit of an alien
concept to me, I thought I'd give it a go, since I had plateaued for the last
few years. Part of my training involved committing to going to White Goods once
a week with some of the other winter climbing freaks of North Wakes and
Liverpool. Come rain or shine, from around October onwards, I did my weekly
migration, dragging anyone who would hold my ropes for the day. I'd set myself
the goal of climbing the 'easy' line up the steep roofs, Jazz. To avoid injury,
I religiously warmed up on the right-hand walls on a top-rope. These lines most
resemble what I was most likely to climb in Scotland. The 'easy' line up the
middle of the roofs felt desperate the first time I tried it. I thought it was
truly impossible and looked up in awe as the locals did it as their warm up
before launching themselves on a frenzy of figure of fours through the really
steep roofs. But the guys gave me the beta and then I worked out a 'weak'
climbers sequence through the final roof which felt OK for me. I gave myself
6-7 sessions to do it. I managed it in session 3. A few weeks later, towards
the end of November, the Ben came into condition and I found myself sleeping in
the North Face car park. An early start, breaking trail all the way, delivered
my first VII,8, Sioux Wall. On it, I felt the training hours kicking in: I was
pumped, but able to recover and place gear and move on. Repeat. It felt
completely manageable. The training on Jazz had given me extra core strength
and amazing grip strength well ahead of getting on anything serious. The
practise on the vertical walls gave me confidence with my crampons and tools in
a more realistic scenario. Without a doubt, my training hours at WG paid off in
the shape of my hardest winter lead yet. This is my first year of training;
who knows what I'll be able to deliver in 3 or more years...but looking forward
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Sadly all the frost bits and white stuff Left us..... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">and dear lord how its back .... </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Monster Effort by Pete Harrison on Lateo X,10 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"> </span><a href="http://news.v12outdoor.com/2013/01/17/lateo-x-10-north-wales-hardest-winter-route/"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">http://news.v12outdoor.com/2013/01/17/lateo-x-10-north-wales-hardest-winter-route/</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So with all this New activity and lots enthusiasm returning to the welsh winter scene can I encourage you all to use the Welsh winter Wiki. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">This is a community run site, that in the past was a one stop shop offering the most upto date information on all things Welsh Winter. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">So If your after knowledgeable response form civil questions then this is the place for you. Put those annoying uniformed posts of other Commercial site behind you and ask the the people who know and care. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">I have Started this years conditions thread (a little late I know) but please feel free to use the rest of the site for news on routes, repeats, conditions, info....or just chewing the fat... its your site so lets get of our arses and use it. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A few weeks back I was taken to a site deemed as a potentially new North Wales drytooling Mecca and oh my giddy aunt it blew me away... with two huge climbing areas of all angles from massive roofs to vertical walls and the smaller area being bigger than Newtyle this place has scope beond words. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Needless to say I think most of my attention will be turning to this venue and this blog my have to change its focus. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Just a word of warning - JAZ has seen a bit of rock fall recently and I am led to believe that this has left some other loose stuff on the route and potentially damaged one of the bolts. </span><br />
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possible over complicated handicap system that has ever been produced it was an
open competition that anyone could win and with Prizes from <a href="http://www.alpkit.com/" target="_blank">Alpkit</a>, <a href="http://www.e-climb.com/" target="_blank">E-Climb</a> and<a href="http://www.up-raw.com/" target="_blank">UpRaw</a> there was every reason to try hard. </div>
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did not disappoint, there are many superlatives we could use to describe his
enthusiasm and passion toward climbing but I won’t waste the column space. Instead I will just say he was fecking brill!. We were drawn slowly in as he talked
his way through each slide and accompanying adventure, each of us willing to
get a divorce sell the kids and quit the job at the drop of a hat just to be a
part of it, then like a slap in the face we were told its not just about the
climbing, then it was again, then it was about booze, then goats and eventually it turns out its all
about some women from Avalon who has a penchant for washing in high mountain
pools with Black Diamond axes. All in all it left me confused, enthused,
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crag in an amber glow as most of the attendees overthrew the urge to curl up
and die and got to cranking on projects or new lines. Unfortunately I wasn’t
one of the “most” and decided I would spend the day handing out beta and trying not to poo my
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Many thanks to all that made this week the success I think it was. <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09270862095821085199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238950635695650696.post-53275393925136492622012-11-12T12:38:00.000-08:002012-11-12T12:38:28.047-08:00The First Annual White Goods Gathering <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Ladies and Gents </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I offer you..and therefore invite you to the First Annual White Goods festival, to be conducted at least once a year annually on a yearly basis, roughly every 12 months or so.. Just so long as the hills aren't covered in the white stuff. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Meet at the Griffin pub 10 am <a href="http://griffinllanbedr.co.uk/location.html">Map and details here </a></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">Tent space available behind the pub £5 a night, only 15 small tents though, so let me know if you are coming. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial;">From here we will car share to the crag, climb like the little axe wielding demons we are before heading back for a slap up meal (£5 per head ish) and a beer or nine.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">We have a couple of people who have offered to do a bit of a slide show to keep us entertained and the pub have very kindly give us our own room. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">In the morning we have Bacon butties on tap and off to the crag for round 2 </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;">So if this sounds like something you might be keen on, get off your arse and let me know .... facebook Dave Garry, comment or send pigeon Whatever !! </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09270862095821085199noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238950635695650696.post-87112765957275337242012-11-11T12:51:00.000-08:002012-11-11T12:59:30.205-08:00New Routes Si Frost and Dave Almond have been busy putting up some welcome additions to the main White goods Area. <br />
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First up - Dont Tumble - M6+ found at the right hand edge of the main over hanging area. Just right of ready steady hook. <br />
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Over the past few weekends a bit of work has put in at the main White Goods Section. Trees Trimmed, routes cleaned and thanks to our friends at <a href="http://www.awesomewalls.co.uk/home" target="_blank">Awesomewalls</a> we now have in-situ draws on the steep sections of all routes. <br />
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This should make cleaning that project a lot less of a ball ache...so its time to Finally get on ready Steady Hook ..you know you have been thinking about it!! <br />
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and Speaking of Awesome Walls I have just reset the Drytooling area so if you are in the area head on over and try them.. some are devious some delicate and some just plain old thugy. <br />
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The New in-situ draws have opened the door to the land of the link up.. <br />
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So after equipping the crag me and Simon ventured on up for a play on a possibility. After a quick pull on some of the one tooth holds and a couple of loose bits cleared we had a line. Next go <em>Delicate Wash Me M9</em> was born.<br />
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The Route Starts up Door Step, at the 4th bolt move right around the arete and into White goods. From the corner on White Goods delicately make you way out to Jaz at the same level and finish up this. <br />
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The climbing Although not covering a lot of new ground is excellent and dare I say it as good as Tumble in the Jungle. I have given it M9 but get on it and let me know ! Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09270862095821085199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238950635695650696.post-12710686224122564392012-10-08T11:49:00.001-07:002012-10-08T11:50:46.808-07:00Its a Goods thing repost <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Just to reinforce the proposed White Goods Mini meet ethos "its just for giggles" I thought I would re post this. <br />
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A little thing we put together in a lunch break after Adam tried out his new Camera. !! enjoy ? Laugh at ? who cares .. its for giggles !! <br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/09270862095821085199noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-238950635695650696.post-72192667659410200072012-10-07T13:18:00.001-07:002012-10-07T13:21:49.780-07:00New Line / Link up thing and a Proposition<br />
Last Season we spoke of a possible link up at the White Goods Area. Last Season unbenost to me Dave Almond and Si Frost put the extra bolts in. <br />
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This White Goods Season I ticked it. Sorry Chaps!! <br />
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I had a play on with Si and Dave a while back, then another with Mat a week or so ago.. but today it was ticked sooner than I had hoped. <br />
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Its quite long for the area, powerful and with a couple of very "pop offable" moves, so I thought it might be a little while coming. Having said that last session I got very close so I was expecting to get it done today but not first go. anyhoo !!<br />
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The Line: <br />
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Start up White goods, at the third bolt move left around the arete and have faith in the sharpness of steel as you move up the blunt arete above. At the roof follow the Crux of Door step Challenge via that toe hook, then cut loose and slap out left. Follow the lip via heel hooks fig 9/4s to the Crux of Left Over Goods and follow this to the top. <br />
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Dave Almond and I were joined at the crag by a couple of chaps over from Manchesterish way.. and Thanks to Tom the route now has a Name !! <strong>Left on the Door Step</strong> M10 ish. <br />
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In the Pub later an Idea was born ..<br />
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You see the Griffin pub is a good pub .. it has what you need, NEH! what you expect in a pub. <br />
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Beer - good welsh draft, Guinness and an aray of cheap nasty largers if you are that way inclined<br />
Cider (for the dietary cripple) local produced <br />
Snacks <br />
Fire <br />
Bar food <br />
and a snug with Chess Table <br />
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It also has rooms .. and this got us thinking as next to climbing a good boozer is high on the list of priorities but should we combining the two then surely it hits number one. <br />
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So our proposal is - if we should arrange a pre-winter mini meet at the Goods who would be interested.? <br />
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A weekend of climbing, chatting and a drop or two of booze in a good pub? <br />
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Let us know... after all we toolesr are a rare breed ...best ask the wife first though ..just in case!! <br />
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