New Problems at Carrock

Orrin Coley has climbed a pair of lines which are worth a mention. The easier line may well have been climbed before(?), but it seems likely the harder line is certainly new.

The climbs are on the back of the Boardman Boulder, to the left of Metronome (page 531 in the guidebook). Both start on the blunt arete, with right hand on the good foothold used for Metronome and left hand pinching the blunt arete. From here make a powerful move to the slopey rail, then for the easier line – somewhere around the 6C+/7A mark – just bust straight up to the nose and top out. For the harder version (Naughty Elf, 7C/+) avoid going up to jugs and swerve slightly rightward to finish just left of where Metronome finishes. Orrin remarked that whilst it is ever so slightly eliminate, it makes for a good and logical problem.