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The graded
difficulty list runs from.
Steve's
Route, 8b+
Start up Yorkshire 8b pull out right and continue up on some vicious
one or two finger crimps before pulling over the top roof.
Simon
Reed's Project 8b
This route has the potentially to be a classic as well as being
a massive power pump, no one move stands
out, but it keeps coming at you, probably the longest route on the
crag. Start up Rumble, break out of the big jugs moving right, for
a 'sicker' crimp with your left hand, move up by pulling on a shite
side pull with your right hand catching the big under cut with your
left, looks powerful. Keep going at the undercuts, until you break
out of the big roof of albatrossity and finish on those slopers.
Hopefully Simon will send this early in summer 2001 when it dries
out again, (look at the video, oh so close!
Click
here to view video clip.
Albatrossity
Direct 8b(or top end 8a+).
3 star route, climbing at its best. Pull up on some vicious crimps
on an over hanging wall, hit the Jug, rest because that's it until
the top. Big double dab around the first roof, hard if you are short
or weak. Get the good holds, steady yourself as you move off the
sloper(left hand) & crimp (right hand) into the undercuts in the
roof. Big fuckin move, to gain the jug on the lip, good body tension
required to stay on. Depending on how you work this next sequence
will depend on whether you make the top, direct or along the traverse
to the right (supposedly easier). Cool temperature makes a difference
on the slopers.
Sharples
Project 8a+/8b.
Man! How did this line get missed for so long, another classic to
be, man I wish it was my line?
Hopefully the Sharple's legend will see a result early in 2001,
boy I bet it's going to be on his mind this winter.
The
McClure Direct Finish to Yorkshire 8b (8b).
Well after the hold came off Masterton's original line, it went
a number of years without another ascent, and not for want of trying.
But yet again, it took the tenacity and vision of Sharple's, to
see the potential. After working a different finishing sequence,
he finally sent the route this summer. Only to see strong crimp
man McClure flash the direct finish Sharple's couldn't work, oh!
we are not worthy, and an awesome sight to see.

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