Yorkshire Lanks Part 1

Some old footage of Yorkshire with Nik, Amber and my late father.

GCW and Nik at Work enjoying God's own rock.

The Kebs (Bridestones)  -  Damned Spanky SDS 7b, Nine 7a, Holdless 7a+, Horror Arete 6c, Out of Sight 7a, 7b Wall, Jerry's Arete failure, Small and Smart 6b, Smarter 6b, Traverse 6b+, Cheeseblock Arete failure (I hate this problem!!)

Buckstones (Nont Sarah's) -  Pig in a Pokey 7a+

Music:  DJ Quicksilver - Eye of the Tiger, The Stone Roses - Made of Stone (808 State Mix)



Yorkshire Lanks Part 1 from GCW on Vimeo.



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Brownstones re-edit

Old HD footage of bouldering at Brownstones.  I've got a load more on film but it's all old SD footage, and we don't want that sort of thing do we?

Bouldering at Brownstones Quarry near Bolton.

Big Muff 7a+, Lifeline SDS 7b, Groundhog Start 7a, Bloopers 6a+, Dezertion Eliminate 7b, Unpinched 7a+, Unjustice 7a, Lancashire PotHot 7a+, Nexus Dyno 6b, The Bad 7a+, Nightlife 7a, Dynostrung 6a (FA), The I.L.T. Dyno 6a (FA), Pigswill 6c+ (sitter 7a), Pigswill no tricks 7a+, PP 7a+, Ridiculous Dyno 7a+, Ridiculous Eliminate 7a+/b

Climbers: GCW, Robin Mueller, Andrew Emery
Music by Egebamyasi




Brownstones Quarry Bouldering from GCW on Vimeo.

Board Room Finished

The matting came yesterday, and is all in situ (thanks to Steve from Holdz).  It's really nice and the room is now finished (apart from a handful of holds still to go up).  We all had a play on the Wall of Lank last night.  Now it's time to get strong.  I'll have to get the Pasty Lord round to give me some tips.

I've not heard from the Beardy Beast in ages - are you ok out there?

Rivington Trail 26

We did the Rivington Trail event yesterday. Quite windy and very muddy but very enjoyable.

I missed out on the 5:30 I wanted to get, but managed 5:39:36. Iron Man was a shade over five hours. Mini Dude 2 came second in the kids 1k race, Bon effort. I'm looking forward to the Howgills and Grizedale Trail 26 events now.

Carcass

YYFY!  Finally seen them live. They were amazing. They played my favourite song, CJQ, a great mix of tracks from all albums, and Ken's drum solo was really rather moving.

Driving home now as I have a little run in the morning. Buzzing!!!!

Rain

We did the Rivington Nightrunner 10k on Sunday in torrential rain and fog.  I got a little lost up on the moor and romped home in a pathetic 1:17:33.  The Iron Man was a shade over 1 hour.  The kids did the 1km race and seemed to have fun.

We ran 17k yesterday along the last section of the Rivington Ultra 26 course, got soaked again.  The weather has been rotten to say the least.  Saturday I am off to Damnation to see Carcass, then the 26 is on Sunday.  Hopefully I'll get under 5:30 for it.

I think I've got the matting for the Board Room sorted.  I've played on the Wall of Lank a few times, feeling a little less weak but a loooong way to go yet.

Nearly there

The Board Room is getting there now.  A few weeks ago I finished off the board itself, and lined the kid's wall with plywood (attached to the wall with MultiMontis, of course).  I've put on most of teh bolt on holds I have, other than 8 of the wooden holds (I haven't got a big enough Allen key!) and a couple of the Moon jugs (I had run out of long bolts).  I have quite a few screw on foot dinks to add, but I'll have to play on the board more to see where they are to go.  The kids board has 2 problems set so far.

I only got around to clearing out the room last week and tidied everything through - now there is no junk in there, I have measured up for matting and got a quote.  I'll finalise this and get it ordered ASAP. 

I had a play on the Board yesterday, and set a couple of problems which I can't do and which will no doubt end up being 6a+ or something stupid.  I'll need to get the BeardyBeast or Pasty Lord here to calibrate my grading radar.


Lateral view:

AP view:

I am incredibly weak, and everything felt very hard.  Hopefully that is motivation in itself......