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What temperature do you give up at?

-21 in Setesdal this AM and im not feeling the love.

In reply to John Kelly:

Yep, below -20 it's not going to be much fun, at least where I have climbed. https://lightfromthenorth.blogspot.com/2010/01/things-that-we-forgot-when-i...

In reply to John Kelly: You can always warm yourself by burning your 60m rope

In reply to John Kelly: Not if he wants to get down the bolted rock routes there where it's 55m standard between the belays

In reply to leon 1:

Not a bad shout, we tried footwarmers down the shirt today but just a wee bit too warm 

We ended up waiting till 2pm when temps reached a balmy -14 - idyllic 

In reply to John Kelly:

Why don't you and your mates drink 10 pints of lager each and piss down the climb. That should warm it up. Reminds me of this:  youtube.com/watch?v=f8-0m0VI7J0&

In reply to John Kelly:

Drop right down the grades, hanging off axes and or tight leashes on steep ground is tough on the hand circulation, plus you keep moving more with faster easier pitches. 

In reply to ExiledScot:

Leashes? I'm a "dyed in the wool" traditional scottish/hiberno snow thrasher and I gave up leashes on mixed in 2015 and ice the following year. I use lanyards (I certainly don't want to be nominated for the Darwin Awards, all because of a dropped axe on a Nevis classic). 

In reply to John Kelly:

-21, it’s always that cold in the ODG bogs. 

In reply to John Kelly:

I once tried to get out when it was -38C at 3800m and it was so cold that I could barely breath. When I adjusted my headgear and exposed so flesh, it felt like my face was being ripped off. 

I bailed...

Defo stay at home with a cuppa..

John C

In reply to John Kelly:

No fun, from a brittle ice point of view more than anything else.

In reply to Albert Tatlock:

Nice one! 

Pardon my ignorance, but what does ODG mean?

I like your nickname too!

In reply to Mark Bannan:

ODG, Old Dungeon Ghyll ,pub at the end of the Langdale Valley 

In reply to Albert Tatlock:

Interestingly, if you had mentioned ODG a couple of decades back, I would have known what you meant - had a good weekend away with the Newbury Mountain club about then.

Albert Tatlock......(shouted).  Who sang that, back in the 80s?

In reply to Dave Cundy:

The Skids

In reply to John Kelly:

I’ve climbed in Canada in temps down to minus 40c. Single pitch and close to the car. Ok when leading, torture for the second.