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Fuck the pain, one more lap
When Pete and I came up with the plan to take on the dark, painful and wonderful world of offwidth climbing, we knew that we'd have to take things to a new level - a level of offwidth climbing that's...
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New Helium Friends!
It's only a week away until we start with the UK part of our film project and Wild Country have very kindly come up with some new goodies - the new Helium friends! Photo: trialing the new gear. (c) Ian...
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Filming the Wide and Wonderful - Part 1
The last week and a bit has been an interesting time for me and Pete - both mentally and physically! We've been out with Hotaches filming for our US/UK wide obsession, and also a project code-named...
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Filming the Wide and Wonderful - Part 2
Day 4 - Giggling CrackSo after ticking and soloing the 2 hardest offwidths in the country it was time to go up to Brimham for the thrutch fest of ‘Giggling Crack’ (given E6 6c). The plan was to solo...
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Filming the Wide and Wonderful - Part 3
Day 7 – OgwenWe thought we would make a short trip up to George’s Crack in the OgwenValley today as it has some good wide pony technique going on. I think, although not sure, Will Perrin and Tom might...
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Want More Wide in Your Life?
If you'd like more wide in your life, more crack in your backyard and more brutal chickens in your nightmares, then look no further.....! Pete and I (well, it's mainly me actually as I'm the geek) have...
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The Original Ray's Roof Solo
A while back when Pete and I originally soloed Ray's Roof, we wrote a few thoughts on the matter. I'm not sure that I ever did anything with those thoughts, so here they are to enjoy. Looking back at...
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8c offwidth. Surely not...
A long time ago..... in a far, far land..... Well, Kalymnos to be exact, myself and Pete dreamed up this concept of an offwidth cellar underneath my house. It seemed like a total pipedream that would...
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Hairy Welsh Cracks, Hannah and (H)Ireland
As it's only a couple of weeks before heading off to America, Pete and I have been up to a few random things - some fillers, some projects and some general trad climbing.At the moment, Pete is over in...
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Indoor Offwidths and The Spread of Wide Love
Most people think of indoor climbing as being a pleasant experience. Bright blue crimps splattered all over a gently overhanging wall and funky wrestling with resin volumes at The Climbing Works. Think...
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Off to America! It could be emotional....
Tom and I finally set off to America tomorrow. Having been waiting for so long now, it might not be possible to contain ourselves fully on the journey – I can see us having to whip the size 5s and 6s...
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First Stop - Vedauwoo. Fat Crack City.
We’ve finally made it over to America – the plane didn’t get turned around and customs didn’t find my huge stash of offwidth porn. Pete, Alex and I touched down in Salt Lake City to perfect blue skies...
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First week in Fat Crack City - Vedauwoo!
The last blog post that we stuck up a few days after arriving in the States was mostly filled with doom and gloom... Rain, rain and more rain. Despite being British, I think we're terrible at coping...
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Big Bro's, Big Pink and Big Psyche
It's been a couple more days up in the freezing cold of the Vedauwoo campsite - we've been caught speeding at 25mph, eaten a whole Jamaican Schlong and ticked a few more Wide Cracks. Both of us have...
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Loving Lucille
I remember seeing a guidebook topo for Lucille about 2 and a half years ago and I didn’t know what the scale of the route was. I thought it was an upside down shuffle with your feet inverted above you...
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Ok, so much has happened in the last week or so!!Trench Warfare 5.12d (flash Tom)Trench Warfare exentension first ascent 5.13a (flash Pete)Trench solo (Tom)Century Crack first ascent.... grade??? (Tom...
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A week of Wide Madness
Man, the last week has gone by so quickly – so much has happened in such a short space of time, that I hardly feel like I’ve had time to think. We’ve travelled down to Moab (ticking Trench Warfare on...
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Century Crack Grade
Ok, so I suppose it’s finally time to lay our nuts on the table and come up with a grade for Century Crack. There have been stories of superlative climbing events over the years that have been...
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Project Time In The Desert
Things have really slowed down in the last week – the frantic pace of trying to tick off all the hard routes has abated to a somewhat normal speed of living. We can actually enjoy a breakfast without...
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Blocktop and Army
A few days ago me and Tom had our first tower experience with desert tower expert Crusher. The route on the agenda was ‘Blocktop’. It was a tower that Crusher had never done before so I think he was...
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