Category talk:Temple Bay Inlets
Good work on this page guys, topos look great tim. I would be suprised if Long Awaited comes in from the arete though. --Alan rosier 22:45, 11 October 2012 (BST)
- We need to sort out the First Ascents section. --Tim Hoddy 22:19, 6 January 2013 (GMT)
I'll get on it--Roy thomas 10:52, 7 January 2013 (GMT)
Great photos from carl. Shall we lose the two very poor ones now?--Alan rosier (talk) 22:40, 23 July 2013 (BST)
- Poor!!!They were magnificent,David Bailey would have been hard pressed to equal them(with my camera and gloomy winter light.I'll keep up the day job however.--Roy thomas (talk) 09:06, 24 July 2013 (BST)
Topo needs change for first inlet
I've corrected the text for routes 5,6. Over to you for topo.--Roy thomas (talk) 15:11, 23 July 2013 (BST)
Cave area topo
is well out. As are F.A. info. Only you can decipher Roy!
Martin Crocker's New Info
This will need to be merged in to the wiki.
From an email from Martin Crocker to Tim Hoddy (7 Nov 2018)
Witches Tip (Temple Inlets)It’s just Bollocks 6m E2 6b (10.11.2010)
A testing solo above a crash-mat (probably about E98 without). Start 2m right of the bulging arête of Betty Swallocks under a patch of chert stuck to the roof. Fingery moves lead via a tiny hanging groove to buckets above. Swing left to exit.
FA: Martin Crocker (ground-up-and-down solo with a mat)
A large undercut corner separates the overhanging west wall from the main face, just left of Jilter’s Wall.
Bankers’ Crack 8m E3 6a/b (10.11.2010)
Having regard to the route second on the right; this is dedicated to the genuine article. An obligatory solo with some back-down moves to start: hard to grade objectively. Somehow gain a finger-jug on the lip of the roof under the corner – harder than it looks – then yard off a bucket to reach the easier corner above. Acrobatic – if you’re weak. FA: Martin Crocker (solo) (but I seem to remember RT said he’d climbed this before, which is fair enough, so this info’ perhaps irrelevant)
Near the left-hand end of the main wall is a short, wide corner (possible escape route at Diff). The following three routes take the wall right of the corner.
Arcana 7m E4 5c (19.7.2004)
Great face climbing. Placing a Rock 3 at 6m should bring the grade down to E3. Starting 2m right of the arête of the corner, climb the face on small positive holds with a crux stretch at the top.
FA: Martin Crocker (solo, after top roping)
Lysistrata 7m E5 6a (19.7.2004)
Make the first move of Arcana to a finger-rail. Move right into a short crack – hard. Climb straight above on two layaways to a good finishing hold.
FA: Martin Crocker (led with Soloist)
End’s in Bridge End 7m E3 6a (19.7.2004)
Swing left to good pockets on the hanging arête of Undercut (peg). Crank for a break, before a long move gains jugs and the end.
FA: Martin Crocker (led with Soloist)
Turn Back Time Machine 15m E2 5b (31.7.2004)
A fine intricate face climb via three disjointed right-facing flakes; start 3m left of Waiting Game. Move up to the first flake and swing left to the second (sling). Climb up to the third flake using good holds on the left.
FA: Martin Crocker (led with Soloist)
The next route climbs the small buttress at the far eastern end of the fishermen’s terrace above and right of the main face. Queues unlikely.
Jericho 10m E3 5c (S2) (31.7.2004)
FA: Martin Crocker (on-sight solo)
From the end of the terrace, swing right along a break and climb the line of weakness up the front of the buttress. All goes swimmingly until the final bulging section where the idea is to hang on long enough to find sufficiently solid holds to top out as the world collapses around you.
