Anyway several miles up the motorway the sky was looking somewhat leaden and the cows in the adjacent fields were doing something that may or may not have indicated that rain was or wasn't either happening or about to happen, or something. Given the dampness potential we unveiled our secret stash of wisdom and bailed of the motorway early for Silverdale.
First port of call was Cringlesport. I had unfinished business here in the form of Brane Damage. On a previous session it should have gone down but fear of success (coupled with an excess of letting go) had yielded nowt but failure. After a warm up and an attempt at high altitude G-unit-icide I got my crush on. ICED LIKE PAPPA SMURF. Shamone. Then I had a play on a Gaskins special and a top secret pro-jay shhhhh. I think I've got a workable sequnce for the Gaskins but will need tres good conditions. As for the other thing, it's gonna be hard but I think do-able with plenty muchos burlificating.
Then on to Trowbarrow, where the nemesis of the crag was the poxy traverse of Red Wall. Previously the G-unit and I have both failed on this but today gravity was our friend, twas a double-doody-first-attempt-win-win-crushty-fest.
Reward CREAM TEA.
Then home, a good day.
G has footage of Brane Damage so should he upload it I'll do a likkle-linky-loo...
Ta-dah...
Brane Damage from GCW on Vimeo.
6 comments:
Nice one Nick, good style.
Cheers Greg, quality line climbs really nicely. Have you done the traverse in t'other direction?
Do you mean Curtain Call? If so yes. I have also finished it up the big crack above the start of Brane Damage, which is really thuggy and very good. Other big links are Curtain Call into Brane Damage, and Gaskins has also done Curtain Call there and back.
Cheers for the info Greg. How about Curtain Call into White Venom? Was playing on it today, two or three tricky moves from the end of Curtain Call to get into the start of White Venom. Obviously this would be without the big block for feet. Quite tricksome. Curtain Call there and back - wowsers, pump-tastic.
As an aside where does White Venom go? I went up to the obvious hold with my right, matched, then up with left to a mono then a stiff pull on this to get a RH finger lock in a vertical crack. Does this sound familiar?
Sorry for all the questions.
That sounds about right. I just remember you need keep to a straight line, so to avoid veering out right to big holds in the gully.
Cheers Greg.
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