Tuesday, 24 February 2009

Finally

I have finally returned to the quarry, and armed with my new micro nuts managed to find a somewhat sketchy three extra placements, (although could not manage to fiddle in the wc rock 1 I had place last time).
So here is the definitive list of the gear on the route:
1st piece is zero G no.1 nut
2nd is the zero G no.3 nut
3rd BD no.2 micro stopper
4th BD no.1 micro stopper
5th Bd no.3 micro stopper
6th zero G no. 2 nut
the limited and kinda small gear

another new line

I also managed to flash the moves of another line slightly to the left, which seems to yield harder climbing and even less gear!
And for the last hour or so of my session I swung the rope over to the smaller slab, and was completely shut down by the technical moves that it offered. After inspection there appeared to be possibly four good lines up the face and no natural protection so I am considering the possibility of bolting it up.

So thats you all up to date, and I sign off pretty confident that the next good day we get I will be on the lead.





1 comment:

  1. I had a look at this myself last autumn- abbed down the arete and cleaned it, but it was still pretty dirty and dinnerplating. Good luck if you manage to clean it up a bit more and lead it.
    Karl

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