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‘Lockdown Liz and her Cryptic Stanage Quiz’ results are now in on the Lockdown Activities page in the members’ area 🙂
A strong field of contestants for this one, but only Catherine and Paul managed to get the full complement – well done to you both!
Please also let us know if you’re planning on joining in this Thursday for ‘Drinks Not At The Royal’ (our fortnightly Zoom catch-up). Looks like folk are starting to get out and about more again now, so we’ll probably phase these meetings out if there isn’t enough interest.
Quick reminder that tonight is your opportunity for a little club chinwag ‘Not at the Royal’ 🙂
Even if you can’t stay for the whole chat, we would love for you to come and give us a wave at 7:20pm over Zoom. We are going to take a quick screen recording of it (< 10 seconds) to incorporate into a little video compilation of things we've been up to as a club during lockdown. This will be featured on the BMC NW Facebook page as a 'club spotlight' next week. Links to the Zoom chat will as ever be found on the 'Lockdown Activities' page on the members' area of the website. Drop me an email (communications@mynydd.org.uk) if you can't login to the website/ find your way onto the Zoom. See you then!
Our FINAL skills video from Dan (wahhh!) is now up on the Members’ Area: https://mynydd.org.uk/skills/
“Ever wondered how you would get back up the rope after abseiling into the wrong sea cliff (because you were too busy thinking about your lunch to read the guidebook in detail…)? Here’s your chance to find out! How to prussik up a rope (and past a knot).”
If you’re interested in learning more about self-rescue techniques, these videos are going to stay on the Members’ Area in the order they have been released for reference any time. Dan will continue to be accessible for questions on videos@mynydd.org.uk , and I’ll still be here to field login queries at communications@mynydd.org.uk too 🙂
“Abseiling into a big sea cliff with two ropes tied together; abseiling on a rope with a damaged section isolated by a knot; or abseiling off a big route and wanting to get to the ground before dark therefore tying both ropes together and doing a full 120m abseil. Whatever the scenario, abseiling past a knot is a useful skill, and simpler than you might think!”
Find the latest from Dan over on the members’ area: https://mynydd.org.uk/skills/
Catch him with any questions you may have from 7:20pm every Thursday ‘Not at The Royal’ (i.e. on Zoom), or drop him an email (videos@mynydd.org.uk).
Any issues with website logins, email me on communications@mynydd.org.uk
And remember to submit your entries for Steve’s Pembroke quiz by this Sunday 7pm! Good luck 😀
This week, Dan is “building on the same concept as last week. We now look at how to escape the system and leave your climber hanging whilst you go to the pub when your belay anchors are beyond arms reach.
There’s the usual element of comedy, and not even intentional this time… ” 😅
Catch Dan with any questions you may have from 7:20pm every Thursday ‘Not at The Royal’ (i.e. on Zoom), or drop him an email (videos@mynydd.org.uk).
“You might have heard rumours about the dark art of ‘Escaping the System’…Thinking about leaving your job, selling the house and living in a shed in the woods? Sorry, that’s the wrong type of system!
We’re talking about when your second can’t do the crux, they’ve fallen off numerous times and you’re getting a bit fed up. Escaping the system allows us to safely leave them there in such a way that means we can walk away and go to the pub!…
We can use this in slightly more serious situations too – maybe your climber is injured and needs some help/ 1st aid ASAP. This is the first step to getting down to them and providing the help they need.
Because it’s quite a complex topic, we’ll take it a step at a time, so next week we’ll look at how to escape when the anchors are beyond arm’s reach and then we’ll follow that with some possible next steps.”This week, learn the art of escaping the system when your anchors are in reach in the usual place: https://mynydd.org.uk/skills/
Catch Dan with any questions you may have from 7:20pm every Thursday ‘Not at The Royal’ (i.e. on Zoom), or drop him an email (videos@mynydd.org.uk).
How many times have you been climbing, and it turns out your climbing partner had too many pints and a massive burger in the pub the night before, and now they can’t do the crux?
Ever wondered how to give them a helping hand to get past the crux? Now’s the time to find out!
Dan’s new skills video ‘Prussik knots and how to hoist a climber’ can be found here: https://mynydd.org.uk/skills/
You can also use this technique if your 2nd falls off a steep route and can’t get back onto the rock, or if they’re injured and you need to get them all the way up to the belay. This video also covers the basics of three different Prussik knots, and when we might choose to use them.
As ever, email me (communications@mynydd.org.uk) if you have any website login issues.
And don’t forget to have a bash at Liz’s fantastic ‘Cryptic Climbs UK’ quiz by 8pm THIS SUNDAY whilst you’re in the members’ area. Good luck!
Week 3 skills video now up – How to build a belay efficiently
“After climbing the crux pitch of a route, you now need to build a belay. There’s obviously lots of ways to do that, most of them may be safe, but potentially not logical, simple or efficient. Hopefully these two methods of building a belay using just the rope will help to simplify and tidy up some of the non-standard belays you may have built in the past.”
The next installation of Dan’s Skills Videos is available over on the Members’ Area: https://mynydd.org.uk/skills/
“Knowing how to tie off a belay device is a really useful skill, it allows you to safely take your hands off the belay device, whilst still keeping the climber ‘locked-off’ and safe. This video covers tying off a regular belay device, a ‘guide-mode’ belay device and an Italian hitch too. As with many techniques in climbing, it’s important to know how and when to use this. In this case, it should only be used if your climber is stationary and not making upwards progress. If you’re unsure, or have any questions – pop along to the ‘Beers Not at the Royal’ Zoom session on Thursday 23rd April at 7:20pm!”
Please comment below/ contact Deborah C if you are intending to eat at Pico’s following the walk this Sunday.
2 WEEKS UNTIL PRINTING. I REPEAT, 2 WEEKS UNTIL PRINTING.
Send over all photos that you think are contenders for getting up on the walls of the hut ASAP please!
(In other news, the A4 landscape prints have arrived and look great. Excited to get them to Deborah tomorrow for framing!)
After conversations in Mallorca involving a good cross-section of club
members, a plan has started to fall into place…Most of you will undoubtedly already be aware that the summer BBQ meet is happening at B-y-N June 23rd-25th. If burgers, beer and good company weren’t already incentive enough to come along to this meet, then hopefully the added fun of getting to help put up some new photos around the hut will be!
I have created a dropbox space full of all the photos I am currently intending to print for the new collages. If you would like the link so you can see what is already in there/ add some snaps of your own, please email me: abi.k.lucas@gmail.com
If you don’t want to use the dropbox link but still want to contribute some photos, I am more than happy to just be emailed the photos directly.
A print order will be submitted before we all set sail for Donegal on May 27th. Anything not in the dropbox by then most likely won’t get printed and brought along to the BBQ meet (unless you do it yourself)!
Please note: none of the photos already up in the hut will leave the hut (unless to be scanned by Dave Wilson for the purpose of having a permanent digital record for the club). Some photos will be shuffled within frames. Some will be transferred into albums. Anyone with any knowledge about the photos that are going into albums is warmly invited to write a little something about them.
Looking forward to seeing you there,
Abi
Part 1 of the photo revamp initiative is here! (Unfortunately I haven’t worked out if or how multiple photos can be uploaded onto the forum.)
Above the large green frames in the lounge at B-y-N there is free wall space. In this space, I would like to put up 6 recent A4 photos which are representative of the diversity of places the club or its members have visited. (NB: all the main frames are and will continue to be full of closer-up photos of club members, so the emphasis on these new 6 photos will be places not people.)
At the bottom of the 6 chosen photos, there will be text stating the venue and the year. I have uploaded a selection of photos onto the MCC facebook group (https://www.facebook.com/groups/108896032465222/) that have been passed onto me via Mark Ward. Any help identifying the missing info/ correcting the headings I have given there would be great. If you are on facebook, please ‘like’ those photos you would like to see printed, or comment with your own A4 photo if you would like it to be considered. If you are not on facebook but can see the photos, comment your favourites here. If you can’t see the photos, please email me and I will send them to you individually!
