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Climbing and ... Climbing => Masters of Mud -- Pinnacles => Topic started by: mudworm on April 26, 2006, 09:51:24 AM
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Mr Mud rented a car and drove out to the Peak District.
-Did he have any close calls driving on the wong side of the road?
-Did he find anyone to climb the gritstone with?
-Did he show the brits that there CAN be quality routes on that ignored mud pile in that ignored valley?
The questions remain...
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Talked to Mr Mud briefly. Calling to the US from his rental cellphone costs 1 pound per minute. Sounds pretty heavy. (I called him back.)
He drove to Sheffield, Peak District last night. Parked, and walked around by foot, and found a room in a pub. Walked back to fetch the car (~1 mile away) and circled around the streets in the car for hours and couldn't find the pub. Finally found a familiar land mark. Parked, again, and found the pub by foot, again. Then walked back to the car, again, and drove the car back to the pub retracing the route. At one point, had to drive in the wrong direction (in order to retrace).
Next morning, couldn't find a restaurant in the town that serves breakfast (hash brown and eggs stuff). Could not get a big cup of coffee anywhere.
Drove to the gritstone areas: Stanage, Burbage(?), and Millstone. Found many boulder problems at Stanage and Burbage. Soloed some (like 5.9's level). The local climbers around were impressed with the soloing, because they were leading the 20' climbs on gear. There are some tall (and famous) routes at Millstone.
Weather has been perfect for climbing.
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Um, mudworm, not to be rude, but your title line has a typo. Given what we expect of Mr Mud I think it's spelled "trial," not "trail." I hope we see him again.
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i thot it was his trail, as he traverses the country?
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Given his "Dude, where's my car?" incident (would that be "Bollocks, where's my car?" in the UK?), Brad might be right.
Of course, I shouldn't talk...Balvenie anyone?
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Brad, that was funny. :)
Munge, given you are right handed, that's even funnier. :D
Now, I'm wondering if I've used a wrong word in the title. Should I have said "trace"? I must be right footed (in the smart scale) then.
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My step brother hand an incident in Austrailia where they went from the airport to the surf. When they got back to where the car was, they realized it had been stolen... along with everything. There they were, in thier wetsuits with only thier surf boards in a land far far away.
I wonder if Mr Mud purchased rental car insurance?
I bet ya the Brits are perplexed. "Who is this guy? He doesn't look English, maybe French? Oh, no American! God help us."
He'd better be taking pictures!
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Factor, they're going to think he's a Viking come to re-pillage. Then they'll put him on trial.
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True Brad, but his hair is short. Although the beard does hint of his Nordic-ness.
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boys, be nice, will ya?
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boys, be nice, will ya?
Nope. :twisted:
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You gatta ask yourself, what would Mr Mud do in the same situation. Would Mr Mud be nice? Well, would he punk? DIE.
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i get a kick out of whenever Brad posts "DIE"
heh, funny2me
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leave it to Mr Mud to report back how impressed the locals were with him
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leave it to Mr Mud to report back how impressed the locals were with him
Oh, mine was just a preview.
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Mr Mud visited Chatsworth (http://www.cressbrook.co.uk/bakewell/chatswth.htm) today. The people there corrected him when he called it a castle.
He was at a gas station when we talked. The gas price at the time was 1 pound per litre; that's like $6.83/US gallon. Now it explains why a kid (could be of any age up to 42) he met in the climbing shop climbs in the gym 4 times a week and has only been outdoors 3 or 4 times.
Following are a couple quotes from this conversation:
- These folks are difficult to understand.
- People here don't seem real sociable.
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- People here don't seem real sociable.
classic, coming from the Crumudgeon himself.
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Just got to Steve's place in Germany. Will be climbing in Lux tonight and Germany tomorrow.
Burbage and Stanage were cool. Most of the climbs were short. I was a bit surprised to see people leading 20 ft routes with a full trad rack. I think a person could do more than half the routes there with a pad. I seemed to be able to solo up to about 6a but that seemed a bit sketchy. Low 5s are casual. Whatever that means. The beer in England is good. They thought I was Swedish at the hotel. The women and sheep were skeered.
later.
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Will be climbing in Lux tonight and Germany tomorrow.
Dude, isn't that like saying "Will be climbing in Castle Rock tonight and the US tomorrow"?
They say you need to streeeeeeeeeeeeeeeetch when you climb in Germany.
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Well actually they are two different countries. Lux will be Limestone, Germany I think Granite or Basalt.
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Ooooohhhh, that's right! Luxemburgh, as small as it is, is an independant country. You did mention that before. My bad. :oops:
They say that you need to streeeeeeeeetch climbing in Luxemburgh too.
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are you implying that he needs to improve aka stretch his climbing abilities, or just warm up?
all this inuendo
I'm skeered.
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How does it feel to be in the Fatherland?
Be sure to sample thier brews. it's a tough job. Their brew is much better than the english.
Who'da though Lowenbrow (sp?) was still being brewed?
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They thought I was Swedish at the hotel. The women and sheep were skeered.
As they should be, especially the sheep.
4 legs good, 2 legs baaaaaaaaaaaaad.
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Hey yo! Yes, you. You need to stretch too, however you interpret the word "stretch".
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Well I can't say the German Beer is better. It is different, the English beer I drank I really liked.
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Mr Mud and Steve went to a local crag about 1 hour from Steve's place in Germany. "Very nice, lots and lots of crack of all difficulties. Plus a ton of different face climbs. I (he) got spanked." He said that some of the real hard stuff was perfect for me, thin hand and then real thin fingers. Yeah right, I'll have to ask what my broken finger thinks though.
He thought the name of that area was Etrigen, but when I type in that word, Google insists I meant Estrogen.
Tomorrow, they are headed for France.
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NOW we get to the part where Mr Mud goes "The French just don't seem very friendly."
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The last time Aryans crossed Germany into France, Paris surrendered immediately.
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Not sure who surrendered. Ever since Mr Mud entered France, I have lost his trail. :(
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He's just securing his dictatorship.
(http://img116.exs.cx/img116/4348/queenoffrance3cj.jpg)
"I am the Queen of France" -Don Hertzfeldt
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Shouldn't that be MY quote then?
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Dude...the Beer in EUR kicks some ass. Strong stuff too though not that I'd look a US Microbrew in the mouth.
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Any new news from the ferral rat? Maybe he finally found his people in the French and will never return.
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No way, man. The best mud is here.
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not to mention mudworm...
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Etrigen is basalt with a ton of cracks: Verdon and Pressels are cool but this french keyboard is not: cli,bing limestone is different. the routes including cracks are very well bolted: You know me i love to bash the French but they have been a very hospitable people; even though they cant speak fer beans: I a, getting spanked on 11c: and my elbows are done: Steve left and I will spend tomorrow stetching:
I have been dreaming of Mud even though I a, surrounded by miles of Choss:
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Got it. The french switched the keys , and m.
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They switched a bunch but those mess me up the most. The French ran screaming when I arrived, or perhaps that was the earth.
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Should have gone to China. You'll have not problem -- we use the same keyboard.
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Right now it's the window between Steve and Tom. Mr Mud has done some hiking into the Verdon Gorge, and reading.
I did learn the hard way that " You do not talk about the war", while in germany anyway.
I think he needs to elaborate on that. Want to guess how many teeth are missing?
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The German still does not look to bad.
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The mountains in Switzerland have started running around screaming.
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We spared the Swill and went to Italy. Went the the Finale area, did some climbing and biking. I not sure what scared them most me or Tom's driving.
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The worm will have mud to play with again soon.
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Ok, that's just gross.
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Is this the same person I know who just watched Rejected Nth time?
All I'm saying is "worm will have mud to play again soon". Get the mud out of your mind! :roll:
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