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Jordan Buys has made the long-awaited second ascent of Hasty Sin Oot Ert Hoonds E9 6c at Cam Crag - Wasdale Screes in Cumbria. First climbed by Dave Birkett in 2007, the route tackles a steep line just to the left of Birkett's photogenic prow Nowt Burra Fleein' Thing E8 6c.

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In reply to UKC News:

Top work there, especially the makeshift paddles.

In reply to UKC News:

Like the inflatable canoe. Always fancied the Loch Maree approach to Carnmore.

In reply to UKC News:

Can anyone translate the name for me? I get the 'have you seen' bit, possibly then 'anything' and Hoonds is presumably dogs but I'm struggling to make sense of it.

In reply to Dave Garnett:

I have only lived in Cumbria for 35 years so am not perhaps fully fluent.

Have you seen anything of the hounds?

Hast thee seen owt....

Maybe.

In reply to Rick Graham:

Yep, have you seen anything of the hounds

In reply to Rick Graham & James Coulson:

Thanks both. Is it a quote from somewhere? I think Nowt Burra Fleein' Thing is from a story or poem, is this perhaps from the same source?

In reply to James Coulson:


So Cumbrian for "Who let the dogs out" then?

In reply to Dave Garnett:

Google (via a Flickr comment) suggests this for Flee'in Thing:

'On that second visit we enquired of Auld Will (Will Ritson, Landlord of the Wasdale Head Inn) if he knew of a climb we had done to the right of Mickledore which led to the top of Scafell. (The course has since been known as the North, or Penrith Climb.)
“No,” was the reply, “an’ if it’s t’ seeam pleeace as Aa mean Aa doan’t think ye’ve been up. Nowt but a fleein’ thing cud git up theer.”'

George Seatree, “Lakeland Memories” (R Scott, Penrith, 1923)