Trip Report
Quick Trip to the Grit!
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Thursday September 21, 2006 11:20pm
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After listening to the hubby talk about (and drool over the prospect of) the U.K. Gritstone for a long, long time, we were finally able to get over there for a couple of days as part of a larger family trip (which included lots of eating, drinking and basically just indulging). Here are some photos (probably too many!) of the beautiful Peak District. We had the pleasure of climbing with and being guided by the extraordinary John Arran (who took us to the classics!), had really nice weather and saw the gorgeous purple heather in bloom. We didn't want to leave and hope to go back...
At Stanage:
My first trad lead!
These are from Froggatt Edge. The pocket with the wire in it is the only pro on this slab!
Super cool arete. Being small I had a good ole time with this reach! Bill had it no problem...
Check out the scenery
"Brown's Eliminate" - double rope lead and awesome climb
The village of Froggatt
What the top looks like (add sheep, purple heather - gorgeous!)
"The Rasp", Higgar Tor
Beautiful scenery looking out from Higgar Tor bouldering to Burbage Edge
...and some limestone at High Tor
 Missing photo ID#125101
Another excellent adventure - the Gravity Bar atop the Guiness brewery, post-tour with stellar views of Dublin. Yeah!
crusher
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About the Author
crusher is a climber from Santa Monica, CA. |
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alasdair
Trad climber
scotland
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Sep 22, 2006 - 12:45am PT
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glad you had a good time, pics aren't working on firefox
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Author's Reply
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Sep 22, 2006 - 01:14am PT
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How to fix that? They're on Kodak - jpegs. Any idea?
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Curt
climber
Gold Canyon, AZ
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Sep 22, 2006 - 01:41am PT
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The pics don't show up using the Safari browser either. Too bad, 'cause I really liked climbing at Froggat and would love to see them.
Curt
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Howie
Trad climber
Calgary, Alberta
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Sep 22, 2006 - 11:50am PT
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Fix the pictures, so I can get my fix from home ground!
Lived in the UK for over 45 years and the Peak for 15 of those years before emigrating to Canada. Great climbing! Great memories!
It used to be said that if you could climb Grit you could climb anything.
Climb safe.
Howie.
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Bart Fay
Social climber
Redlands, CA
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Sep 22, 2006 - 01:49pm PT
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Author's Reply
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Sep 22, 2006 - 11:02pm PT
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I think I've succeeded in fixing the pictures - they're on photobucket now - let me know if they work!
Thanks for the help. : )
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Sep 22, 2006 - 11:06pm PT
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Far Fuchin' Out!
Now this is good Grit-y Cyber Surfin'
I want some 'a that action sumthin' fierce...
Ain't it somehow the birthplace of our whole silly striving escapade?
Thanks Fer Sharing.
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Author's Reply
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Sep 22, 2006 - 11:19pm PT
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Thank God it worked this time. If I had to load these %^&# things again I was goin' to bed.
Sorry for the duplicate and the one that I can't get to flip right.
Here's the correct top shot for Brown's eliminate:
Some other fun stuff:
John A. soloing "Downhill Racer" at Froggatt (putting the rope up for us wankers):
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
Wyoming
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Sep 22, 2006 - 11:30pm PT
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HI Crusher,
Using cable conn. with Safari, all images appear... no problem at all... what's the problem. And by the way, thanks loads for your thread and the great images!! Just finished reading Whillans: the Villain by Jim Perrin, great detailed biography, make sure and read it.
best PH
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Author's Reply
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Sep 22, 2006 - 11:40pm PT
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Thanks for the book suggestion Peter! The problem was I used the Kodak Gallery when I first posted and some people seemed unable to view the pictures so I went back and put everything onto the desktop and then into Photobucket and did an edit. I then wasn't sure how to change the title of the thread to "fixed"...
Tar B - if you've never been you've got to go. Place is amazing. The Grit is amazing. The stuff those guys did back when with no or old fashioned pro is really cool. The scenery and super nice people don't hurt either.
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BV
Trad climber
Bay Area
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Sep 23, 2006 - 12:34am PT
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Ahh, I remember my trip to the grit not so long ago. Looks like you had fun!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Sep 23, 2006 - 12:19pm PT
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Definitely want to go grit.
Plus, really good Scotch sometimes shows notes of heather.
Though I never met him,
John Arran made his mark out here:
He went soloing by a good friend of mine on his way up the Naked Edge.
'Good to know he still has the majik!
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Toker Villain
Big Wall climber
Toquerville, Utah
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Sep 23, 2006 - 11:31pm PT
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Crusher, you know how I am.
Nice pix but when does the sun come out?
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Phil_B
Social climber
CHC, en zed
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Sep 24, 2006 - 12:05pm PT
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Way cool!
Thanks for posting.
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Author's Reply
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Sep 24, 2006 - 12:24pm PT
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Ron,
It went in and out - our day at Stanage saw more clouds than sun and it rained hard on us at the end of the day. Luckily on the other days it was mostly sunny, nice puffy clouds, some wind. Not what we're used to being in SoCal but it makes for some awesome green scenery!
The good news about the gritstone is it dries really fast after the rain.
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Crimpergirl
Sport climber
Boulder, Colorado!
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Sep 24, 2006 - 05:31pm PT
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Cool looking rock. Thanks for the trip report. In my opinion, there can never be too many photos!
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Tarbuster
climber
right here, right now
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Nov 13, 2008 - 03:15pm PT
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bump!
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Nov 13, 2008 - 03:52pm PT
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oh wow, great bump. Did I miss this the first time around? That or memory is flailing as bad as my wide skills.
Grieat Grit
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Author's Reply
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Nov 13, 2008 - 08:18pm PT
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Radical I'm at work right now but I'll look it up when I get home, we've got a list of which ones we did and I can't remember the names except for "Brown's Eliminate" - super memorable since there's no pro for the whole second half and it's a ground fall. Thank God Mr. Crusher was leading it and not me.
Those climbs were all SOOOOOOOOOOOOO fun. We got soaked towards the end of the first day out - total downpour. Got lucky for the next two days with great weather though.
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Jeremy Handren
climber
NV
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Nov 14, 2008 - 01:07pm PT
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I always try and go climbing in the Peak when I go home to visit family. Definitely one of my favorite climbing mediums. Here are a few shots from a trip in 2006.
Peering up at the crux of Profit of Doom. The gear placement is now all blown out (see the 1977 thread) and the piece is now pretty poor, making this a much scarier lead than it used to be.
Josh Horniac on London Wall, photo by Niall Grimes.
Strapadichtomy..looks like my heads about to explode in this one. This photo was also taken by Niall. He was doing a photo shoot with Michael Reardon, who was also milling around the base of the cliff that day. Michael was trying to get psyched up to solo Stapadichtomy, but after watching Josh, Ian and I take bunches of falls before we got up it, he got a little psyched out instead.
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duncan
climber
London, UK
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Nov 14, 2008 - 01:53pm PT
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radical, the second (and third) photos are of Robin Hood's Right-Hand Buttress Direct. "Hard Severe" or about 5.6, first climbed in 1922.
I last did this fine little route four years ago with a regular contributor to this forum.
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HighGravity
Trad climber
Southern California
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Nov 14, 2008 - 02:22pm PT
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Nice TR, I've got to get there. Maybe after the 2012 games in London.
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Author's Reply
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Nov 14, 2008 - 02:28pm PT
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Thanks Duncan, didn't have time last night to look that up. I sorta thought it was one of the Robin Hoods but wanted to confirm.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Nov 14, 2008 - 03:36pm PT
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What's with all the cams and stuff? A real crusher don't need no gear....
Great Slab. One of Joe Brown's finest.
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Fat Dad
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Nov 17, 2008 - 02:39pm PT
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Thanks much for sharing your wonderful photos.
Reminds me of my only trip to the grit some 25 years ago to visit a friend I met and climbed with in the Valley. Nice you had a rope gun like John Arran to act as tour guide. Next time I go back, I'll see if Ron Fawcett's available.
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micronut
Trad climber
Fresno/Clovis, ca
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Nov 17, 2008 - 02:46pm PT
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Excellent. Like watching hard grit. Just less blood. Thanks for posting.
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Author's Reply
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Nov 21, 2008 - 01:37am PT
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Micronut you're funny...there was, in fact, some blood. Not too much, nothing crazy, but me trying to climb the classic "File" at Higgar Tor was nothing short of an epic. The thing is, I think, about a 5.8 but it's a fist-sized slanted, rounded crack (and when I say "fist sized" that's for the average-sized man, and I'm a small-sized woman) - so I got about half way up it, then was out. Swung back to get into it, fell out...and so on, you get the idea. Cursing ensued, skin ripped off the back of my hands and fingers (no I wasn't taped), blood oozed and I think I gave up.
So the rest of our trip after climbing was a cruise with my family 'round the British Isles to celebrate my parents' 50-year anniversary. It was great. The first thing my Mom said when we hooked up with them in London was "my God what happened to your hands!"...well she was used to my bloodying and bruising exploits from childhood on, but you know, we were going on a cruise, with black tie nights and I looked, well, bloodied. Scabbed. Eeeiiiw. Good thing I hand lots of band aids with me...black slinky gown and Johnson & Johnson - the perfect accessory!
Anyway I realized there were some more nice pictures from the Quick Trip to the Grit, and in the spirit of posting about rock and nature...
The first glimpse of Stanage:
Fossils in the limestone of Castle Kilkenney:
On a hike above Dublin:
Where's the pot 'o' gold?
Sister and I at a favorite stop:
Waterford Harbor:
In county Kilkenney:
Near Inverness:
Some other cliffs (White Cliffs of Dover):
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Author's Reply
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Nov 21, 2008 - 01:41am PT
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Dover Castle:
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jbar
Mountain climber
urasymptote
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Nov 21, 2008 - 01:59am PT
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wow, great tr! Love the heather pic and jealous of the Guinness.
The first few pics look fun. Like some of my local climbs. Bouldering up high and a small rack cuz there's no place for gear. Those are some great pictures.
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crusher
climber
Santa Monica, CA
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Author's Reply
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Nov 21, 2008 - 10:44pm PT
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Furry freinds at Froggat
Fossils
And feathered friends
This was really a great trip. I hadn't looked at the pictures in a while and now am thinking about what a great time we all had.
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Ezra Ellis
Trad climber
North wet, and Da souf
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BAD A$$ Y'all, love the beer pics!
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mike m
Trad climber
black hills
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Looks like some great stuff.
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chez
Social climber
chicago ill
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Do any climbing in Ireland?
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Mike Bolte
Trad climber
Planet Earth
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wow - some great shots of what look like great climbs! Thanks!
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