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  The flake is dead! Long live the flake!

  Climbers queueing for Parthion Shot in 2008 Bouldering at Burbage last night, with good conditions and good company.  The climbs on Burbage South were bedabbed with chalk, The Knock, Masters Of The Universe, Simba’s Pride and the rest.  So speckled with white was Parthion Shot, it looked like a trade route.  Then we all realised that […]

  Posted: April 19th, 2011 ˑ  No Comments
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  I Must Have Been Nuts

  It was involuntary, almost like a cough or sneeze.  As Tobias fell I murmured “Stay in you bastards.”  This wasn’t some trite entreaty, nor premeditated, but a genuine, instinctive terror that all his gear would come out.  I watched as he reached the full stretch of the rope, the belayer jerked forward and Tobias stopped.  […]

  Posted: March 21st, 2011 ˑ  No Comments
  Filled under: Climbing