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Wide Boyz Blog: Taming The Cobra
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Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker's Stories From The Wide Side. Sunday, 22 September 2013. For the last 3 weeks, we have been out in Squamish trying to fulfill yet another madcap mission: to climb Cobra Crack. Why would two guys from a country that barely has a crack above the standard of 5.12 / 7a want to take on such a ridiculous goal? Surely, we would be best off sticking to what Brits do best? So where does this leave us, three weeks into a three-and-half week long trip? Was our training any good? The r...
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Wide Boyz Blog: February 2012
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Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker's Stories From The Wide Side. Tuesday, 14 February 2012. Newspapers and The Golden Piton Award. This last week has been a very strange one indeed. It’s been hectic, frantic and surreal – I’m not really sure if any of it has happened to be honest…. Dreaming of wide again? Mostly, it’s been reassuring to be back in the climbing community talking the same old banter and getting grief off everyone for how bad my grading on routes is. Finally……………. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).
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Wide Boyz Blog: Beards, Bagels and Big Walls
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Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker's Stories From The Wide Side. Sunday, 19 October 2014. Beards, Bagels and Big Walls. Likewise the onsight / flash standards have lagged on the big walls. The biggest surprise to many might be that El Capitan has still never had a pure onsight of any of it’s free routes, despite the grades rarely going over 8b on the hardest pitches. So why is this? Is it the cumulative effect of tiredness? The diversity of climbing styles? Better preparation = better climbing? It was a real...
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Wide Boyz Blog: September 2013
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Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker's Stories From The Wide Side. Sunday, 22 September 2013. For the last 3 weeks, we have been out in Squamish trying to fulfill yet another madcap mission: to climb Cobra Crack. Why would two guys from a country that barely has a crack above the standard of 5.12 / 7a want to take on such a ridiculous goal? Surely, we would be best off sticking to what Brits do best? So where does this leave us, three weeks into a three-and-half week long trip? Was our training any good? The r...
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Wide Boyz Blog: October 2011
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Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker's Stories From The Wide Side. Monday, 31 October 2011. I apologise for knocking some loose rocks down on Crusher as he then dropped his climbing shoe 300ft down the offwidth. Anyway I was pretty pleased to be able to get to do a tower and the whole experience was really enjoyable - apart from maybe the 350ft jug back out from the tower. Don't fall off" Checking out Blocktop. The White Rim view from Blocktop. Tom repairing his dodgy tape job. Wednesday, 26 October 2011.
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Wide Boyz Blog: September 2011
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Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker's Stories From The Wide Side. Thursday, 29 September 2011. One Scary MoFo - Lucille. When Tom and I got to the belay I already knew I was up first as we had flipped a coin the night before to see who it would be. Unfortunately I lost out and had to go first. The rack for Lucille. Pete finally reaching easier ground on his onsight. So what about the grading? Pete showing off his chicken wing on 8oz. Friday, 23 September 2011. Big Bro's, Big Pink and Big Psyche. Yesterday saw...
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Wide Boyz Blog: November 2011
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Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker's Stories From The Wide Side. Saturday, 12 November 2011. Goodbye and Thanks for all the Fish. Climbing in Indian Creek. Mason Earle on Witness the Wideness. Pete onsighting the FA of Witness the Wideness, 5.12d/5.13a. Invert armbars - lovely! Overall we reckoned it to be around 5.12d/13a, which might seem tricky to some, but for a 50ft offwidth roof its definitely not too bad. Dave Simmonite, Mike Hutton and Martin Kocsis - the UK massive! Witness the Wideness' from below&...
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Wide Boyz Blog: January 2012
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Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker's Stories From The Wide Side. Tuesday, 3 January 2012. Yup, can it get any more embarrassing than standing up on a stage and talking about how I kept Pete warm at night with Alex's onions or how I got lost in Newcastle for an hour with two Satnavs? How about this video of myself screaming for starters? Rumours about Pete's underwear, what Stevie really thinks, unseen video footage, tales of Onion Power and more. Lecture 1: Cambridge - 21st Jan Masterclass on cracks.
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Wide Boyz Blog: Pre Muir-El Corazon: The Heart of El Capitan
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Tom Randall and Pete Whittaker's Stories From The Wide Side. Saturday, 11 October 2014. Pre Muir-El Corazon: The Heart of El Capitan. When we first thought of coming out on a trip to Yosemite to climb big walls, it seemed pretty simple. You get good at climbing (well, we can do the crack parts quite well…), book some plane tickets, fill a haul bag with food and water and then plod your way to the top in style. That’s what we thought anyway…. Pete had to jumar up and sort everything out. He kind of fell t...
