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  • JasonL

    Roseberry Topping

    Moved Pics and trips hiking outdoors climbing
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    Roseberry Topping Yesterday G and I took Lindy to the North York Moors National Park for her first big climb. It started out a bit chilly which helped get us up the 200 metre elevation and the views were as worth it as I’d remembered. Our first visit in 9 years, which felt very strange - it was the first hike G took me on 16 years ago and now we’ve introduced our fur child to Roseberry Topping! #outdoors #climbing #hiking
  • ClimbingZineC

    Going Out To Come Home by Stacy Bare

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    The night was cold, and where the moon and stars shone around patches of clouds, they were incredibly bright. There was no ambient light out here. I was standing on a half-finished patio attached to a half-finished house in an otherwise empty summer-herding village. It was early March, months before the village would be occupied.… https://climbingzine.com/going-come-home-stacy-bare/
  • ABellingrodtA

    #52WochenFotoChallenge

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    ABellingrodtA
    #52WochenFotoChallenge 2025/45 #SÜß#photography #climbing
  • GrippedG

    Adam Ondra Using His Thigh as a Foothold in a 5.15a First Ascent

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    Ondra used some funky beta to unlock Fantazija, a 5.15a power-endurance line in Slovenia The post Adam Ondra Using His Thigh as a Foothold in a 5.15a First Ascent appeared first on Gripped Magazine. https://gripped.com/video/adam-ondra-using-his-thigh-as-a-foothold-in-a-5-15a-first-ascent/
  • GrippedG

    The Fugitive is a Classic North Carolina 5.12d

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    Watch a send of the steep route that has a big-move crux section The post The Fugitive is a Classic North Carolina 5.12d appeared first on Gripped Magazine. https://gripped.com/video/the-fugitive-is-a-classic-north-carolina-5-12d/
  • GrippedG

    Climbers Send V15 and V14s in South Africa

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    A new video just dropped documenting over a dozen sends of hard problems by veteran boulderers The post Climbers Send V15 and V14s in South Africa appeared first on Gripped Magazine. https://gripped.com/news/climbers-send-v15-and-v14s-in-south-africa/
  • devnullD

    Does gate direction matter on a hanger? (more practice board faffery)

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    Today I was supposed to host an informal skills clinic with a climber new to the outdoors, and teach them the basics of anchor cleaning. They ended up rescheduling, so I had some time to waste. We're usually taught to clip draws with the gate facing away from the direction of the next bolt/pro, but if you're clipping a hanger (as opposed to a glue-in), could the biner rotate, and have the gate opened by the bolt itself? I tried with an extendable draw I had, and it took some doing, but it was definitely possible. Rope movement can make a draw do funny things, and extendable draws in particular love to flip orientation. Lots of seemingly impossible things have happened to unattended protection! This doesn't really apply to local crags here since bolts here are glue-ins, with exception of the anchor, but food for thought. All the same it seems the advice to clip with the gate facing away from direction of travel still seems to supercede this niche edge case. [image: 1726449887485-pxl_20240916_011132217-resized.jpg] [image: 1726449891860-pxl_20240916_011143499-resized.jpg] [image: 1726449898882-pxl_20240916_011243263.mp-resized.jpg] [image: 1726449903000-pxl_20240916_011433464_exported_1433.jpg]
  • Jonathan PulferJ

    Just back from sport #climbing at Horseshoe Quarry in the #peakdistrict.

    Pics and trips climbing peakdistrict
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    Jonathan PulferJ
    Just back from sport #climbing at Horseshoe Quarry in the #peakdistrict. Weather was really good with just a couple of short rain showers yesterday. The rock in the quarry was in pretty good condition. I lead a route and did a multi pitch on a 32m route in the slab section. It has been pretty special climbing in warm sunshine in the UK.