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Drytooling at the zoo, a video of some of the easy routes.

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 TimhNorthBASE 27 Aug 2014
When conditions are bad head to the zoo!! Small edit from some of the M4-5 lines at the zoo.
youtube.com/watch?v=TUgIllOHzyY&
 Morgan Woods 27 Aug 2014
In reply to TimhNorthBASE:

Looks cool but are crampons ok there...i had heard some of the french tooling crags insist on rock shoes.
 timjones 27 Aug 2014
In reply to TimhNorthBASE:

> When conditions are bad head to the zoo!! Small edit from some of the M4-5 lines at the zoo.

> youtube.com/watch?v=TUgIllOHzyY&

Can you offer any hints on how to find it?

The online co-ordinates we tried using in 2012 were nowhere near ;(
OP TimhNorthBASE 27 Aug 2014
In reply to Morgan Woods:

Hi Morgan, yeah the other location is la fayet, there they like you to use climbing shoes, but at the zoo you can tell the difference between drilled axe placements and shorter drilled crampon placement, plus there are crampon scratches everywhere! cheers for watching!
 jezb1 27 Aug 2014
In reply to TimhNorthBASE:

Had a fun day there a few weeks ago.

I was glad the guys I was with had been before because it's a mission to find!

The only downside is that the placements are so hard to spot.
OP TimhNorthBASE 27 Aug 2014
In reply to jezb1:

yeah i literally cannot describe how to get there, remember some ruins in the forrest, crossing the river and thats about it. Especially when the sun is glaring down, finding the placements is nails!
 Doghouse 27 Aug 2014
In reply to TimhNorthBASE:

Great little vid, but why the gloves?
OP TimhNorthBASE 28 Aug 2014
In reply to Doghouse:

Thanks, hands end up getting trashed.
 timjones 04 Sep 2014
In reply to jezb1:

> Had a fun day there a few weeks ago.

> I was glad the guys I was with had been before because it's a mission to find!

> The only downside is that the placements are so hard to spot.

If it's where I now suspect it is it should be easy enough to find with a map and basic map reading skills. Our problem in 2012 is that it definitely is not anywhere near the published coordinates that we had.
 goose299 04 Sep 2014
In reply to TimhNorthBASE:

We struggled to find it last summer. Ended up trekking through woods and across a river to get there
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