On the afternoon of wednesday the 19th, Stupot and myself went to Dunmore. Stu continued his return to trad climbing and made a rare free ascent of the infamous aid route Master of Puppets HVS 5b(or A1 if you aid it!) taking two leader falls in the process. These were Stu's first falls and he seemed rather shocked to find that the climbing equipment he tries to sell to the public actually works!
Yours truly led Grecian Gift VS 4c (in the rain), 10cc E1 5b (also in the rain and without the illegal foothold that I'm shown using in the photo gallery!) and Egg and spoon Race E2 5c.
On Thursday (20th April 2000) morning we went bouldering at Rubinid point (the North-west's very own Fontainbleau, not!) where a few new problems were done, most notably Stu's infamous 7a sloper problem. After doing the first ascent and repeating it 4 or 5 times (just to annoy Stu, he he he!) I decided it was 6a+. Despite Stu's best efforts it remains unrepeated (too much trad climbing perhaps!).
Something else worth mentioning is that ex-Derryman and E-man wannabe (yeah right!) Niall Grimes has recently repeated Johnny Dawes' infamous route The End of the Affair E8 6c - the route which features in the video "Hard Grit" (which I used to own, eh Andy Pandy?) is nicknamed "death from the top floor"(!). Just goes to show what some people will do to become one of the E-men!!
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