Great work Dave! I'm impressed, the line looks absolutely amazing! It's awesome to have such a huge number of photos and fun to see on the recent photos exactly where the route goes and how that awesome picture in North Highlands North fits in.
Too bad I will never be strong enough or bold enough to attempt it
In reply to Nick Harvey:
> (In reply comments about el cap)
> I guess they may be more sustained? but with easiest access and far less fickle weather. And no bird puke.
And they are twice as long and on completely solid rock and feature a lot of hard jamming rather than hard face. Infact it's pretty hard to compare the two imho.
As far as rock quality is concerned, I thought I had read an article in a climbing mag by John Aaron with said something along the lines of "...was encouraging me but I was unsure about the holding power of small cams in sandy breaks, a few moments later I was off, taking a long swinging fall and ripping the cams out..." which would suggest the rock on at least some of the hard ground on long hope is crappy. Read it ages ago though, so my memory is hazy.
Dave MacLeod succeeds on his Hoy 'mega project'.
