Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Cratcliffe and Robin Hood's Stride chipping

I popped up to have a look today after reports that some boulder problems had been chipped (see: ukBouldering and UKClimbing). It's pretty bad, with several problems affected, including a few easy classics. Someone was pretty determined to do some damage here, although most of the problems would still be climbable. The newly exposed rock is very very soft. Here's a selection of photos:

The 6B and 7A+ to the right of Razor Roof.

Remain of the hold above, mostly gone. I tried this a few weeks ago.

Raxor Roof

Razor Roof

Razor Roof - still climbable at the same grade, but a real mess.

Razor Roof

Arete of problem 5 page 181 Peak District: Bouldering

Arete of problem 5 page 181 Peak District: Bouldering

Arete of problem 5 page 181 Peak District: Bouldering


Problem 5 page 181 Peak District: Bouldering

Small chip in the slab to the right of the rib above.

Problem 1 page 181 Peak District: Bouldering

Problem 1 page 181 Peak District: Bouldering
Fresh chip on foothold near the arete.
Fresh chip on foothold near the arete, also possibly a fresh chip on another lower down, but hard to tell if it's new.

Problem 2 page 195 Peak District: Bouldering

Problem 2 page 195 Peak District: Bouldering


Start of 7A in the Cave at the Stride.
Start of 7A in the Cave at the Stride.


Arete left of Jerry's Arete.

Ben's Wall boulder

Ben's Wall boulder

Ben's Wall boulder
I took a few more pictures but they seem to have disappeared. There was a prominent chip on a problem left of Kaluza Klein.

Really sad that someone bothers to destroy the rock like this. It's clearly someone targeting climbers for some reason. All of these are popular problems.

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