UKC

I have been sorting and scanning some slides - brought the memories flooding back:

Scotland
http://www.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/88580682
http://www.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/88580939
http://www.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/88580942

Wales
http://www.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/88580945
http://www.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/88580936

The South West
http://www.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/88580937
http://www.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/88580938
http://www.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/88580943


Chris

In reply to Chris Craggs:

All look like a spectacularly good use of time IMHO.

In reply to Chris Craggs:

Skye looks AWESOME! I wanna go!

In reply to Erikka:

about to say the same thing!

some of the those south west pics look great too, im off down there for work soonish and havent got round to checking whats available, looks good!

In reply to Chris Craggs:

So..Skye...I like the look of that nice VDiff..is there plenty of easy-ish stuff to do?

In reply to Erikka:


Stacks - from exposed scrambles, to easier routes (often very long ones) and right up through the grades.


Chris

In reply to Chris Craggs: Thanks for sharing them Chris. Great photos!

In reply to Chris Craggs:

Thats never VD

In reply to Erikka:

Skye is a mind-blowing place, for all sorts of reasons.

Loads of classic low-grade stuff, Clach Glas-Blaven traverse is a long Diff. There's the Dubhs ridge as well. Very long scramble.

On Sron na Ciche there's stuff like Integrity, Cioch Direct, as well as Arrow Route (pictured in Chris's link).

Then there's Whispering Wall in Coire a'Mhadaidh, a VDiff with a great pedigree, it was put up by Patey and Bonington.

Oh, and it's got the Talisker Distillery at Carbost and the Three Chimneys restaurant at Dunvegan (if someone else is paying).

In reply to Offwidth:

Doubtless it would get HVS 3a in the Peak!



Chris

In reply to Chris Craggs: arrow route?

more like shadow's edge

In reply to Chris Craggs:

Pics of Skye are awesome. I was on Skye last month and did Grey Panther at Kilt Rock - absolutely superb route...grand setting, great moves, sustained climbing. Keen to do more like that over the next year or so....

In reply to Chris Craggs:
Great. Sticking Skye on my wish list for next year then!

In reply to Chris Craggs: Re: Samson Arete, Sennen. How did you get Ziggy Stardust to belay you?

In reply to mickyconnor:

Nah - that's Ziggy Binks!


Chris

In reply to Chris Craggs:


Whilst we are on - I know 'where' it is but 'what' it is - anyone any idea what the route might be? And no clues to be given!

http://www.pbase.com/chris_craggs/image/88580935


Chris

In reply to Chris Craggs:

I am 95% convinced I know the route, but as it was 30+ years ago since I did it, I'm not going to suggest what it is.

In reply to Norrie Muir:


Well you are certainly from the right part of the world to get it right!


Chris

In reply to Chris Craggs: You've got some cracking photos in your collection Chris, Thanks for sharing them.

In reply to Chris Craggs:

I'll risk an each way bet on Supernova or Revengeance?

In reply to summo:

I decided to go and get the guide out - no it isn't either of those - which crag would that be anyway?


Chris

In reply to Chris Craggs:

Since you have a guidebook handy, is it about Kneepad/Marshall's Wall?

In reply to Chris Craggs:

Chris

The mystery route looks like Lady Jane to me (though it's about 10 years since I've been there).

Rick

In reply to Chris Craggs: Lower North East nose of Aonach Dubh (east face)

In reply to Rick Sewards:
Yeah, Lady Jane was my first thought, but the AE ridge in the background looks wrong somehow. Maybe because it's sunny.
sherlock

In reply to Chris Craggs:

Is it Lady Jane or a route on that wall?

In reply to Rick Sewards:


I thought it was higher up the hill, but you might be correct, that or a 'Thing of Beauty'?

In reply to Rick Sewards:


I think we have a winner - well done, I knew roughly where it was but didn't actually recognise the route. Checking my guide I see I lead in the past - where does the time go indeed!

Chris

In reply to Rick Sewards and Chris Craggs:

Doh, I was a bit slow for the prize there. I always wanted to do that route but I didn't get around to it. It looks good.

Chris, if you are motivated and lucky, time goes doing all those things shown in your photos. Which is no bad thing at all.

In reply to Chris Craggs:


and where does the hair go?
and that nice Mr Binks needs a bit of fashion advice

Nice shots Chris

J