Saturday 8 November 2008

First Ascents in The Peak

Me and Brandon tried to find The Secret Garden.... we didn't find it and was, well pretty pissed off really as we had walked for ages and was getting tired from scrambling through the heather trying to find it. Anyway as time pushed on and the sun got closer to setting we resorted for settling down and climbing on two esoteric boulders. I don't know why we stopped there but we didn't have much time left and just needed to do some climbing. I have not found the boulders in any guides or on the Internet, so, we have named them the No Mans Land - Boulders. WE named them this because they sit in between the two signs of Sheffield City and The Peak District. Lately i have really wanted to do my own boulder problem, even if its on some random boulder that nobody goes to. I have calculated it and i am really sure i was the first to do these, anyway i did a traverse line which i called The Trench Traverse, i gave it Font 6c+, it starts pretty low and uses bad sloppers and wide moves to come to the very blunt arete and leads to a soft mantelling finish. The other problem i did was a better problem, its called The rise of The Footsoldier, given Font 7a+, it starts underneath a roof, then come out using pockets, then uses sloppers to harsh mantelling top-out. I believe the grades are pretty accurate and have been confirmed by my Brandon. The rock is very sandy, crumbly and can be green in places, on ROTF as you come out of the roof the rock crumbles in your eyes as you try and get over and out...but it was good to something of my own.

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