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NEWS: INTERVIEW: Alan Cassidy's 'Summer of Dove'

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 UKC News 08 Aug 2013
Alan Cassidy at The Anvil, 4 kbIn the recent mediterranean weather the UK has been enjoying, Alan Cassidy, The Climbing Academy (TCA) Glasgow manager and Scottish strongman, has made a number of border raids to Dove Crag (Dovedale), in the Lake District, and come away with some respectable plunder including two E7s... UKC caught up with Alan to find out more about his 'Summer of Dove'...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=68267
 Steve Crowe Global Crag Moderator 08 Aug 2013
In reply to UKC News:

You can read more about Dove Crag here:

http://www.climbonline.co.uk/articles_&_features.htm
 Rick Graham 08 Aug 2013
In reply to Steve Crowe:

One thing that I have always wondered,

If Bill and I had not done the routes in 1980-82, how long before anybody else would have put in the effort?

I always had the feeling we had no competition, just Ed Rob and Al doing the second ascents of BA and Fast + before the chalk had washed off. I don't think they tried any new lines but knew if I could get up so could they!

I think Big George Smith was the first to repeat everything in 1984.
He certainly could climb easily everything I could manage. He went to do Footless Crow the day after he dragged me up Supernatural when I told him I'd done FC yesterday.
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