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1st Aug 2011 Wide Boyz Filming Project

A few more blog posts  up on the filming of the Wide Boyz Tour! The UK leg of our tour is now mostly in the bag... all the hard UK stuff visited or re-visited. One more month til USA. Bring it on!!

 

Here's the links for the filming:

 

http://wideboyz.blogspot.com/2011/07/filming-wide-and-wonderful-part-1.html

 

http://wideboyz.blogspot.com/2011/07/filming-wide-and-wonderful-part-2.html

 

And, by the way - The 5.10 Grandstones are the absolute business when it comes to offwidths!!

Contributed by: Tom Randall

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11th Jul 2011 More pain, more offwidths!

Hi guys, I've just updated mine and Pete Whittaker's blog about our wide adventures and forthcoming USA trip.

 

http://wideboyz.blogspot.com/2011/07/fuck-pain-one-more-lap.html

 

Those new 5.10 Grandstones are the shizzle!!

 

Cheers

 

Tom

Contributed by: Tom Randall

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11th Feb 2011 New Routes on New Crag for Randall and Whittaker

Taken from UKclimbing.com:

 

"Pete Whittaker and Tom Randall have climbed two new routes at a 'new' crag - Rainroach Rock in Staffordshire.

The routes, Captain Cutloose (E7 6c) and Pieces of Eight (E8 7a) took a fair bit of cleaning, but after the hard work produced two good lines.

Tom Randall explains how they were tipped off:

...I got chatting to Gary Gibson about new crags and new routes to be developed in the Churnet region. Quite surprisingly, he actually gave me a rather good tip-off about this place called Rainroach Rock...

After trekking through quite a bit of dense woodland and the dreaded Rhododendron bushes we eventually found the fabled Rainroach Rock. As promised, the crag was totally obscured by vegetation, so we got work with a load of bow-saws and cleared a substantial area of land. Once cleaned up a bit, we were greeted with a really awesome bit of rock – perfect Churnet grit, capped with a massive horizontal 7-foot roof!

...We returned on Friday to find perfect conditions. A quick check of our routes from the comfort of a tight rope confirmed they were ready to go, so we later dispatched them that day. My route features a huge cut loose move across the roof and a bit of spicy climbing up the final arete, which was very enjoyable – this created 'Captain Cut Loose' probably about E7 6c. Pete crimped and gnarled his way up the very bold lower arete of his route and ran it out on the upper headwall to create a desperate E8 7a – 'Pieces Of Eight'."

 

Check the video out HERE

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