Shadow Play

Written by LakesBloc Thursday, 28 October 2004 00:00

John Gaskins reports climbing the central roof project on the Giant Stone at Little Font. John has been trying this line on and off for a while now, and felt the complete send was worthy of 8c/V15. Anyone who has seen this problem will be surprised to hear its not even harder! In fact it took a little persuading from Greg Chapman, to get John to plump for 8c rather than 8b+. The line has been christened Shadow Play.

John has also climbed the obvious low left to right traverse line on Plum Buttress at Warton Pinnacle crag. The problem starts below and left of Lone Tree Groove to finish up The Vine Line and goes at somewhere between 8a/V11 and 8a+/V12. The central section of the traverse comes close to a large tombstone like block on the floor although John says that with good body tension this does not effect the problem to much.