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STANAGE VS MILE CHALLENGE

Date: 14th June
Location: Stanage Edge

Briefing:

A team of ten aim to shag all the routes in the 1989 BMC guidebook graded Very Severe in one day. This challenge has its own special old fashioned grade of XS 6a, and includes two modern day E1s, and three climbs of technical grade 6a. This is over a mile of vertical climbing, and works out to 29 routes for each pair.

The Team:

Alek Kumar
Shagwell Bannister
Proffessor Sensei Chris
Thomas Murray
Martin Lane
James Cross
Laurence Everitt
Ant Schwirtz
Graeme Schofield
Thomas Bide


Cause:

As well as it being a personal challenge for us all, we hope to raise £1000 for the Edale Mountain Rescue Team. The Edale Mountain Rescue Team (EMRT) is a Registered Charity providing a Search and Rescue Service for the moorland and upland areas of the Peak District National Park. It is staffed entirely by unpaid volunteers and is self funded.
Charity Registration No 512559

You can support us by placing an online donation at http://www.justgiving.com/stanagevsmilechallenge
Donations of any amount will be greatly appreciated.

List of Climbs (from left to right):

Crab Crawl Arete
Paved Vacuum
Kindergarten
Nursery Crack
Niche Wall
Manhatten Crack
Arrow Crack
Problem Corner
Flesh and Blood
Birfurcated Headplate Max
Spock Out
Back Door
Left Hand Tower
First Sister
Second Sister
Rabbit's Crack
Feathered Friends
May Crack
Bright Eyed
Undercut Crack
Bandits in the Woods
Side Effect
E.M.F
Treatment
Kitten
Electron
Quantum Crack
Cosmic Crack
Little Things
Rinty
Icy Crack
Gunter
Inaccessible Crack
High Neb Buttress
QE2
Titanic
Scavenger
Scraps
Sneaking Sally Through the Alley
Parallel Cracks
Genesis
Magazine
Cringe
Persuader
Mantelpiece
Central Buttress
Centrepiece
Countess Buttress
Zit
Time and Tide
Count's Crack
The Stretcher
Bon Ami
Amoeba on the Edge of Time
Kitcat
Mother's Day
Outlook Crack
Outlook Chimney
Amphitheatre Face
Fern Crack
Toothcomb
Wall End Slab
Outlook Slab
Wall End Flake Crack
Fairy Steps
The Wall End Traverse
The almighty UBMC President's Slab
Crescent
Anji
Obstinance
Slab and Crack
Overhanging Crack
Seesaw
Valhalla
Pegasus Wall
Flate
Paradise Arete
Paradise Wall
Milton's Meander
Tridymite Slab
Symbiosis
Nephron
Wall Buttress
Traversty
The Groper
Dover's Wall, Route 3
Dover's Wall, Route 4
Wing Buttress
Cleft Wing
Cleft Wing Superdirect
The Punk
Verandah Wall
The Confectioner
The Nose
Zel
Step Ladder Crack (The Styx)
Hell Crack
The Louisiana Rib
The Mississippi Buttress Direct
Upanover
M Route
Thrombosis
Paralysis
Boris the Bold
Via Roof Route
Twin Chimneys Buttress
Lucy's Delight
Robin Hood's Cave Innominate
Rubber Band
Kenneth
Titbit
Right Twin Crack
Ellis's Eliminate
Inverted V
Straight Crack
Zagrete
The Little Flake
Wright's Route
Hargreaves' Original Route
Central Trinity
Green Crack
Via Media
Oblique Buttress
Narrow Buttress
Hangover
The Wedge
Wedge Gully
Wedge Rib
The Kirkus Original
The Y Crack
The Z Crack
Gargoyle Buttress
Tinker's Crack
Beggar's Crack
Heather Wall
Chimps Corner
Green Wall
Ground Glass
Square Buttress Direct
Square Buttress Arete
Gashed Crack
Ding Dong
Trainer Failure
The Real 20-foot Crack
True North

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Great Free Blowies (men or women) - 07702218917

Good luck guys, sounds like it'll be an awesome day, and a difficult challenge even split between you all. There are some great VS's at stanage

I can't get that site to work but I'll donate £10. In keswick they have an ale that some of the monety from goes to the local MRT, it's always fun raising money there.

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MILF-Hunter

are you not missing two people from your team?

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VP '08-'09

very observant of you tommy. graeme is now on board. Missing one.

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Great Free Blowies (men or women) - 07702218917

Take the refugee. He can shag better than most people while he only has the use of one foot.

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Ex-president

Is he in to leading now? When he was in the club he was a boulderer and only occassionally led 5s in Creation because he didn't like the heights. But he may well have got over that now and yes he probably could outclimb everyone with one leg removed and his hands tied behind his back!

For those of you that didn't read the full post, they are doing this and raising sponsorship for a very worthy cause - so click the link (http://www.justgiving.com/stanagevsmilechallenge) and sponsor if you can!

Recruting: Support team

Sign up for the frighteningly exciting opportunity to look after our 'Atheletes in Action' on the day - keeping the troops well stocked with tasty nibbles, quenching their thirst, fetching their gear, patching up their wounds, and nursing those pumped up limbs during this battle against the Stanage greats.

Cake baking, flapjack moulding, sock knitting coffee morning at 17 Teignmouth Friday 10-12, Don't forget the doylies!

legend

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Great Free Blowies (men or women) - 07702218917

That is exciting Jules, and tremendously committed.

I won't be there, but would like to wish you all luck. I'd say shag safely, but know better than that.

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I'm Andy. I'll eat anything.

i'd love to come and suport!

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VP '08-'09

We might even do autographs for support team members.

No seriously, it would be great to have a few people around to help keep us going (and perhaps even scout out those tricky to find dark murky Stanage oddball VS routes!)

I'm planning on coming to support, pending transport. Going to bring some cakes to sell to other climbers/walkers to try to raise some more money.

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I like Starley.

woow cake! any room n cars for supporters?

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VP '08-'09

Yeah that sounds a good idea Jules, I was thinking that there should be some way my tasty and energising tiffin should make it to the team!