Up on Bonehill
Apr. 19th, 2015 09:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sawylRather than spend the afternoon indoors, we took advantage of the glorious weather and dragged ourselves up to Bonehill for an afternoon of bouldering.
We started with Baby Slab, warming up with the easy 5 up the middle and then doing the simple 4 up the arete.
E making light work of the 5. It's a really nice way into things: solid feet and lots of positive holds the whole way up.
With that settled, we moved over to the Cube and worked some of the 6s on the northwestern size.
Unable to reach the obvious hold up to the left, E tried out a completely different beta...
B and I tried a different method involving a heel hook and a reach for the next hold. I managed to get my hand on statically the first time I tried it and then fell off on my every subsequent attempt, largely because I was unwilling to risk a sliced up hand in order to stick the move.
Partway through the afternoon we bumped into H, whom we both know by sight from Exeter, who was out for her first ever boulder on the moor. Here she's going from a standing start into the first move...
...and on into part of E's beta.
Admitting defeat on the 6c, we all tried out a couple of easier routes including something graded 6a which felt far easier — which suggests that we'd misread it and done another problem instead.
I think this was graded a four. It certainly felt like it after the stuff in the high six range.
This is why they say that Dartmoor is sharper than a werewolf's teeth and why people recommend you go often and keep the sessions short...
We started with Baby Slab, warming up with the easy 5 up the middle and then doing the simple 4 up the arete.
E making light work of the 5. It's a really nice way into things: solid feet and lots of positive holds the whole way up.
With that settled, we moved over to the Cube and worked some of the 6s on the northwestern size.
Unable to reach the obvious hold up to the left, E tried out a completely different beta...
B and I tried a different method involving a heel hook and a reach for the next hold. I managed to get my hand on statically the first time I tried it and then fell off on my every subsequent attempt, largely because I was unwilling to risk a sliced up hand in order to stick the move.
Partway through the afternoon we bumped into H, whom we both know by sight from Exeter, who was out for her first ever boulder on the moor. Here she's going from a standing start into the first move...
...and on into part of E's beta.
Admitting defeat on the 6c, we all tried out a couple of easier routes including something graded 6a which felt far easier — which suggests that we'd misread it and done another problem instead.
I think this was graded a four. It certainly felt like it after the stuff in the high six range.
This is why they say that Dartmoor is sharper than a werewolf's teeth and why people recommend you go often and keep the sessions short...
