New Carrock Lines & Endangered Species Repeated

Written by LakesBloc Saturday, 05 March 2005 00:00

Whilst on a recent visit to Carrock Fell, Adam Hocking and Neil Kershaw added a few fine new lines. On the Punks Life boulder Hock added an excellent traverse finishing at the top of Punk's Life, Neil gives the low down: "Start just left of the boulder (the one you use to start Punk's Life), hanging on two low crimps. Slap wildly out right to a good flat hold above the boulder. Match this, drop into the Punk's Life sloper, get your heel by your hand on the flatty, and now gain the break. A couple of snatches on small crimps gains the P.L jug and success. F**king powerful all the way! My guess is 7b/V8". Neil climbed the obvious groove right of Sing A Rainbow on the Mile High Wall – "Standing start (a sitter would be pointless), get stood on the good ledge. Extremely bizarre acrobatics might get you past unhelpful holds to eventually swing onto the jugs at the end of S.A.R, top out as for this, I Can, I Can't 6c+/V5". On Kits Boulder, Hock then climbed the grooved arête from low on the right – "Hanging start on the good finger jug, get a terrible pinch for the left hand, smear your feet, now backhand the groove high up (very burly, crux). Press out into a layback and cruise to victory.

March 23rd Addition - Hock has come up with goods - The traverse into Punk's Life is Generation X (7b/V8) and the RH sitter to Kits Grooved Arete is Losing My Feathers which also goes at 7b/V8.

At Thorn Crag Greg Chapman ended five hard sessions and a couple of months of concerted effort on the training board with the much-coveted (well by himself anyway!) second ascent of the blank bulge that is Endangered Species 8a/V11.