Comments on: Trowbarrow after work http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/trowbarrow-after-work/ The latest reports of world wide rock & ice climbing (and other extreme) fun and adventure! Wed, 08 May 2013 21:39:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/trowbarrow-after-work/#comment-8079 Pete Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:50:45 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=5017#comment-8079 Not wanting to be a geek :geek: but, yeah those flutings are amazing … however, they are REALLY common limestone features, it’s just that you don’t normally get to see them like this…
The level of the top of the face was the level of a limestone pavement and the flutings are just one side of a “gryke”; the deep fissures left by water in a pavement. The “clint” (the slab of limestone between grykes) on the other side of the remaining fluting has been quarried away! Sad for the limestone pavement, good for the remarkable climbing venue it created!

]]> By: Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/trowbarrow-after-work/#comment-8078 Pete Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:42:47 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=5017#comment-8078 OK, I believe you Terry – as it’s you – I wouldn’t trust anyone else! ;-)

Jon the clock is ticking, sounds like Cracked Actor should be done ASAP… That is before the next lot of rain, oops, it’s raining now! :shock:

]]> By: Terry http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/trowbarrow-after-work/#comment-8077 Terry Mon, 27 Apr 2009 13:31:10 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=5017#comment-8077 No, no, nothing to do with polish :geek: jjeanie gets 10Xmore ascents than Harijan :star: Believe me :?: the crack is wider and, yes jon, whole pile more did fall down over a year ago :eek:

]]> By: Jon Stevens http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/trowbarrow-after-work/#comment-8075 Jon Stevens Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:39:08 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=5017#comment-8075 Didn’t a bunch of stuff fall off last year or the year before :?:

What with belay ledges on Lower Falcon collapsing and lumps of Dow heading southwards, there’ll be no crags left soon :!: :sad:

]]> By: Jon Stevens http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/trowbarrow-after-work/#comment-8074 Jon Stevens Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:36:43 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=5017#comment-8074 Jam :yum:

]]> By: Laetitia http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/trowbarrow-after-work/#comment-8070 Laetitia Mon, 27 Apr 2009 12:21:04 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=5017#comment-8070 Jamming – eeeuuugh! Well no wonder it was hard.

]]> By: Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/trowbarrow-after-work/#comment-8062 Pete Mon, 27 Apr 2009 11:51:37 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=5017#comment-8062 Maybe more polish … not such good friction in the jams?

]]> By: Terry http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/trowbarrow-after-work/#comment-8058 Terry Sun, 26 Apr 2009 21:28:04 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=5017#comment-8058 The cracks ARE moving :eek:

i did jean jeanie and harijan consecutively about 8 years ago and thought them about the same difficulty.

Then I did them both again last year and felt jean jeanie about the same but harijan seemed much harder. Reason being that I thought the jamming on latter was more difficult ie the crack had widened :???:

]]> By: Pete http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/trowbarrow-after-work/#comment-8056 Pete Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:52:02 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=5017#comment-8056 It’s all still there – no change in the cracks that I’ve noticed, I think it’s an myth that the face is moving/falling down. ;-) Cracked Actor is great route!

]]> By: Jon http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/trowbarrow-after-work/#comment-8055 Jon Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:46:27 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=5017#comment-8055 Has all that stuff on the right fallen down yet :?: :!: I’ve still not done Cracked Actor – I’m waiting ’til the Friend 5 I bought for the Bugaboos trip fits :!:

]]> By: Terry http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/2009/04/22/trowbarrow-after-work/#comment-8052 Terry Sun, 26 Apr 2009 20:39:24 +0000 http://www.sterling-adventures.co.uk/blog/?p=5017#comment-8052 Yeah, my favourite place :razz: Aren’t those flutes the most amazing structures ever :grin:

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