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Nick Bullock writes about a memorable day of ticking climbs at Tremadog...

Years down the line, if you're lucky, you've gained experience, you've sorted your ego and you really begin to enjoy climbing for the climbing and disregard what others may - or may not - be thinking. At this point, the weirdness, the quirkiness and the beauty of mad movement become something to aim for — two-dimensional doesn't quite cut it anymore. You become like Quint, the Captain of the Orca in the film Jaws; a person who bucks the trend, someone a large percentage of folk can't quite fathom. 

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"Shush Nick."...

Ha ha, Brilliant Nick. I can both see and hear Tim muttering those words to you with one of those sideways glances of his Hope the sesh in the pub was good after  

Great article, I enjoyed it 

Shush indeed

That was great!

Brilliant!

Nick is so enjoyably readable, he's so good at allowing you to relate to his experiences. 

Really enjoyed that, great story and writing. It perfectly captures the camaraderie and fun of a mad project with good mates. Thank you!

loved reading this. anyone whos done any of those routes will certainly be able to feel it all over again. its so easy to relate to every aspect of this story! silly arete never gets any easier either!.. so i guess the v challenge remains yet to be completed. poor tim's going to be twitching...

p.s youve got to love tremadog. getting a schooling is a gift

Errr, so, you didn't do Valerie's Rib either!?!? 🤣🤣

https://www.ukclimbing.com/logbook/ticklists/the_tremadog_vs-69

Shhhh... Ian

Not extreme? The old lines Via Nimbus and Victimisation??

Come on Ian, keep up 😉, as Offwidth says, Valerie's Rib is not extreme and we were doing an extreme V day... Apart from the extreme V we didn't do, but as Tim said, that doesn't count 🤔😬😂.

Lovely article BTW

Keen to give it a go, perhaps you can rope gun for me in the spring  George 😁

Thanks very much. I did mean to say on my previous message how much I appreciate all of the kind words people have written about the article, it does mean a lot. I'm chuffed people are enjoying it, it was a lot of fun for me to write also. 

Happy Christmas everyone and thanks again,

Cheers

Nick 🙂 

Had me chuckling!

Nice one Dr Jon. So, how about I write about our (your) experience of Neb Direct???  🤣

It would be a very short piece with no ending!

Must be the most vicious route at Tremadog. The lion in a field of gracious gazelles.

Used to get e3 too, madness.

Any article giving Tim that much stick would be hard to not to enjoy 😁

That is the most fun read I've had on UKC for years Nick! Great article, thanks. Have a great Xmas...

Great article and a fun read (I even got one of your books for Xmas Nick). Indeed, the videos of Craig Doris were a UKC highlight of 2024.

One thing though, the use of OCD seems to be made light of in a pervasive way these days. It's not really something that we should trivialise as for those who actually suffer from OCD, it's a really challenging disorder to live with.

We don't really use the word neurotic in Psychology cirlces these days, but it did have it's descriptive place alongside persnickety, fastidious or even anal. Which I very much identify with...