Rick Riding's Blog – February 2011 Archive (2)

Does this picture of Dorsal arête ring any bells with any of the marks who had green ropes on that day.......

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Rick 

If point Five was just another Grade 5 gully climb, we all would have climbed it long ago.

The amount of folk law and mythology surrounding the climb builds an image in your mind which bares little relation to reality. The reason it takes so many people so long to achieve this tick has nothing to do with difficulty or conditions. Its actually in climbable condition pretty often but getting all the components to come together…