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Logbook for Franco Cookson OLD

Best Climbing Experience

I've enjoyed most of them really, but those trips away for a few days are always the best. For example: 07/8 winter season with Ian and Dave on the Ben, which turned into a great tale of the folly of youth. Trips to Gritstone, featuring hilarious nights with no sleeping bags. Ridiculous mopedding outings in storms and floods. Summer trips to the lakes and Wales, with never quite having the perfect conditions. and of coarse those endless days spent plodding around the moors- from the days of old, when getting to the crag was a 15 mile epic; to the lazier days when we got scared and bivied under rocks eating chicken. 2009 has been one huge adventure. Even though I feel i've done nothing, i'm sure i'll look back and actually be amazed at what actually occurred this year. The FA of Roseberry Topping and the Whitestone Traverse are two things I never thought I'd get round to doing. getting from the stage of ticking the odd super soft E5, to feeling pretty steady at it is also something which means a lot to me. Trying those LGPs of the moors and them not being too far away is also a pretty mint feeling and all the people i've met through climbing this year almost makes up for me leaving the moors. And discovering a love for mixed climbing. :-) experiences featuring Twig.

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Name Grade Style Partner(s) Notes Feedback Date Crag name
Central Direct III * Solo O/S Stuart Coxson 15 Jan, 2010 Kinder Downfall
The Direct IV ** Lead O/S Stuart Coxson 15 Jan, 2010 Kinder Downfall
Humble Icefall III Solo O/S Dave Warburton 24 Dec, 2009 Cringle Crag
The Nick IV 7 Solo O/S Dave Warburton 24 Dec, 2009 Cringle Crag
Point Three Groove III 4 Solo O/S Dave Warburton 24 Dec, 2009 Cringle Crag
Cringle Ridge II 3 ** Solo O/S Dave Warburton 24 Dec, 2009 Cringle Crag
Tell Chris Craggs Nout (Winter) IX Solo O/S Dave Warburton 24 Dec, 2009 Cringle Crag
Chock Gully V 5 ** AltLd O/S Dave Warburton 21 Dec, 2009 Dollywaggon Pike
Soul Vacation VIII 8 *** AltLd Lh88 19 Dec, 2009 North Buttress/Cambridge Crag
Bowfell Buttress V 6 *** AltLd O/S Dave Warburton, Lh88 19 Dec, 2009 Bowfell
Crazy Torque V 7 AltLd O/S Dave Warburton 18 Dec, 2009 Helvellyn
Eastern Touch E4 6a * Lead Dan Lane 13 Dec, 2009 Hobson Moor Quarry
Steve's Dilemma E2 6a 2nd O/S Dan Lane 13 Dec, 2009 Hobson Moor Quarry
Dragon's Route E2 5c * Lead O/S Dan Lane 13 Dec, 2009 Hobson Moor Quarry
Scale the Dragon E4 6a ** Lead O/S Dan Lane 13 Dec, 2009 Hobson Moor Quarry
Christmas Curry S 4a *** Solo O/S Dave Warburton 29 Nov, 2009 Craig Bwlch y Moch (Tremadog)
The Plum E1 5b *** AltLd O/S Dave Warburton 29 Nov, 2009 Craig Bwlch y Moch (Tremadog)
Goose Creature E3 6a ** Lead O/S Dave Warburton 28 Nov, 2009 Australia
Crew's Route VS 4c *** Solo O/S   15 Nov, 2009 Hobson Moor Quarry
Gideon HVS 5a ** Solo O/S   15 Nov, 2009 Hobson Moor Quarry
Stable Cracks VS 4b ** Solo O/S   15 Nov, 2009 Shining Clough
Phoenix Climb VS 4c *** Solo O/S   15 Nov, 2009 Shining Clough
Pebble-less Dyno V6 ** Sent x   31 Oct, 2009 Wainstones
Black Night E7 6c TR   31 Oct, 2009 Wainstones
Mousetrap E2 5a *** AltLd O/S Lh88 10 Oct, 2009 Gogarth South Stack
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