Talk:Foxhole Cove

Hi Tim,

Can we start putting first ascent info at the bottom of the page in small text please.?--Alan rosier 13:51, 16 April 2009 (UTC) Its not very interesting and takes up lots of space on the wiki pages.

Palace

I wanted to ask if anyone had heard about a foothold of handhold being broken off palace of swords? I was wondering if this has happened and whether it has been climbed since?

Not sure why Palace keeps getting upgraded. This 'lost a foothold' business is plain wrong as I never used the missing footholds. Several people from the peak and one from North Wales repeated the route last year (2009) and no-one thought it was Fr8a+. The consensus is a clear Fr8a with a V7 crux.

Ta Goi

Hi Goi, am interested to know how you did the crux as the picture in the guide shows you using the broken foothold? Cheers Kev

Apologies Goi, I have been re-looking at the photo of you on POS Reversed and noticed that you are not using the foothold that is presumed to be missing. Am still interested to find out how you did the crux though. In terms of difficulty, this may well be 8a as you say, but the crux is definitely harder than V7. This would get at least V8 at Parisella's. Kev

New Routes at Foxhole

New route left of Basil Brush:

Vulpix 4+ a pleasant exercise in bridging up the cleaned runnel. FA: Rhiannon McCarroll 17th April 2017

Thanks for this. I added your route to the main article text. Apologies, but editing has been restricted just recently. Normal service will be resumed shortly. --Tim Hoddy (talk) 19:47, 17 April 2017 (BST)

Marmalade skies (7a+ maybe but grade needs to be confirmed). Takes a direct line up the overhanging orange wall between Unholy Alliance and Connard Canard. Nice technical climbing, with a boulder problem start and tricky finish. It is a filler-in of course but the climbing is good and it stays dry.

Danny McCarroll and John Bullock 5th March 2013

Basil Brush (Grade 4). long route taking the line of least resistance to the left of Unholy Alliance. Steeper and better than it looks (thank goodness).

Danny McCarroll and John Bullock 2nd March 2013

26 April 2017

New route left of 'The Power of the Leopard Skin Legwarmers': Leopard Prints (Grade 4?) "Climb the pleasant slab just right of the corner" FA: Steve Rusling and Bethan McCarroll Jan 2017

New Route: The first line inside the cleft left of the 'Leopards' slab: Cleftomaniac (Grade 4?): A steep start, or wide bridging, gains entry to the clean slab which is climbed to the left of the bolts. Watch your back when lowering. FA: Bethan McCarroll and Danny McCarroll April 2017

New route: In the lower tidal zawn at the inland end: Coral Corner (Grade 5) Climbs the stepped hanging slabs to an exciting finish. Walk round to rescue your clips from the lower-off. FA: Conor White and Bethan McCarroll May 2016.

Thanks for these. I added the first of the routes into the main article text but didn't the two others (i.e. Cleftomaniac and Coral Corner) because I am unsure as to where they might fit in. Can you give an indication as to which routes they should fit between please? --Tim Hoddy (talk) 11:04, 27 April 2017 (BST)

Hi Tim. Cleftomaniac goes just before Leopard prints

Coral Corner lies betweeen Requin and deep cut slab.

Many thanks

Danny

All done. Thanks. --Tim Hoddy (talk) 09:44, 30 April 2017 (BST)

Closed shop

Hi Tim if you unlock then maybe you/I could add these to the wikki Text--Roy thomas 13:34, 7 March 2013 (GMT)

Ooops... sorry...! --Tim Hoddy 13:39, 7 March 2013 (GMT)

Protocol Poser

Not sure if I'm following the rosier or hoddyfying path(br)<<>>so will let you sort it out between you.I've put the 1st ascentionists(sorry this is SWMC so acentonists) details after the route as the #list is a pain to do at the end.