Scrambling Up A Cliff And Hoping For The Best
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ส.ค. 2021
- Whilst ascending Bryant's Gully as a means of getting up on to the Glyders and doing a series of Grade 2 and 3 scrambles I found a rock face which I hadn't seen before and decided to give it a go.
After watching this, the only scrambling I want to ever do is scrambling my eggs for my brekkie.
Haha. I'll do the scrambling so you don't have to!
Honestly knowing when to back down and not risk it so that you can do it at another time or place is more courageous than yolo-ing it. Respect, Dave!
Thanks Rusins! Fortunately I'm old and wise enough to know that a cliff is just a cliff and isn't worth dying for, just so I can try and say I climbed it :P
@@BraveDave
Haha, that's the difference between bravery and foolhardiness!
Mate, mate, mate.
You're one of just a few men that makes my gooch quivver.
Yet I'm more likely to fall off the edge of my seat. Than you are off that cliff.
Man, I wish you nothing but good things.
Brave Dave,
What a guy!
Good call to back off there I thought Dave. Good to show a vid where you do as well so others know even with loads of experience its the right call sometimes.
Thanks Alun! Yeah, I'm never afraid to just call it a day. I've got plenty of videos of me failing what I set out to do because I changed my mind :P
Like jumping on or off a train that's moving a liiittle too fast...
Nice one loved your train hopping series hope you do another one 👍
Remember he still has 6 more years to wait for his travel ban
Got stuck in exactly the same bit at the weekend.
I shot up it to more or less the same place as you by the look of it. And then, as you say, you just run out of road and there’s nowhere to go.
Didn’t realise how vertical it was until I got stuck either.
Climbing down wasn’t fun or easy.
The name says it all...’brave’!!!!👍
Glad i was already on the toilet for this one
Haha
Ha, my sides 😆
Absolutely Shat myself from the comfort of my sofa on this one Dave. Fair play mate 👍🏻
Haha, thanks Wrighty. I hope you managed to get it cleaned up :P
Love your channel! Brave indeed!
Thanks Papa Bear!
Good stuff Dave, good stuff.
Bloody hell mate that looks proper intense...👍👍👍👍
It was. And the day only got more intense from then on!
Great stuff Dave. Be careful on those peaks man. Your freight hops are legendary. Stay awesome!
At least wear a helmet man. Being dead isnt cool.
@@Miles-lq7vc I did in fact have a helmet in my backpack. I just didn't bother getting it out for BG. I wore it for the other Grade 3s that I did that day though :)
Looked like a decent route until the overhang. Then all opportunities ceased randomly! 100% abandon mission 😅
Loved the overhang bit dave! Been in a few bits like that myself….am in either Yorkshire 3 peaks again tomorrow or the snowdon circular….keep the faith brother……
Yikes. Enjoy the thunder and lightening.
@@planesimple8619 very very Frightening
Nice job!
Good effort pal 👍
So close. Wonder how many others got to the same point and also thought...nah? Good to see you out and about Dave.
Top man Brave Dave! Looked like a good challenge!
It was! And just a warm up for what I did later that day! (videos coming soon)
I was moving my head left and right trying to find a place you could put your hand and feet and my hart was pumping just putting myself in your shoes... Great stuff. I would have been disappointed you had gone the easy route lol
Oh BTW about Winnipeg, Ms Brown is closed and moved to a commercial center and that bad ass slide is gone 😉
@@TrainHoppingNomad Haha, thanks for the update THN! :D
you're for sure Brave Dave! good lord.
Looks amazing! Just got back into scrambling (did some grade 1/2s yesterday), but deffo would like to attempt this when I am fitter
I don't think you need to be particularly fit to do something like this, or even the whole of Bryant's Gully (although it obviously helps). It's more about having a proper head for heights and keeping cool when it seems like there's nowhere to go. Good luck with your future scrambles :)
Great video XD definitely couldn't climb like this, I would fall !!!
that looked craazy
Absolute madman 😆
Get back on the trains! Stay safe my friend. Dont want to loose ya.
Dave, i'm going to be climbing Snowdon via the Pyg, to see the sunrise at the top. Do you have any tips for me or anything I musn't forget to bring? Thanks a lot
Waterproofs, a warm layer, a head torch and a camera. Have fun :)
I hate heights. But I love climbing videos. Have to say I fast forwarded through a of of this. It was making me anxious. You're not brave dave. You're what we call in wales ....'twped'
Shit man, that's not scrambling, that's ROCK CLIMBING but without the ropes and safety gear. Scary
Yeah, it certainly felt like it was beyond a scrambling grade!
Amazingly mental 😂 looks so good but so dodgy at the same time, done a few scrambles after loosing the path on Scottish mountains and just done the CMD arête…. Would love to see you doing the ledge route up Ben Nevis or doing what you do best and making up a route as you go 😂
Haha, yeah, that is how things often turn out for me, I admit :P If I loved closer to Scotland then I'd definitely be up there much more often. I've always wanted to do the CMD (there's no way I can be arsed doing the tourist track up Nevis again).
@@BraveDave you would have an amazing few trips up the north face of Nevis mate it’s a totally different mountain compared to the normal boring track…. Take advantage of the weather and get ur self up for a couple of days ASAP 😎
CMD is great but nowhere near as badass as Crib Goch
@@simonsherratt1484 going to do it end of the month mate when I’ve got time off work to travel, any tips or recommendations? I’ve watched plenty of videos and can tell it’s no joke
It would be awesome to see you and geoguesser collab. Just two mates going on a trek in the wild
This would be fantastic. Crossing Snowdonia National Park in a straight line ;-)
Except for the fact that Dave is competent and Geowizard ain't. I love his work, but be fair, his skill set ain't no where near capable of doing what Dave's up to.
@@TheJwlindrup Yeah true, I love GeoWizard but he definitely struggles a bit when the terrain gets dicey haha, doubt you'd catch him up on a near verticle scramble like this
Dave already replied to a comment on Toms latest straight line mission
Also their humour fit quite well
We need you to hop on a train. You can do it Dave !!
Yes mate!
Shift your weight the wrong way and you’re dead, good to see you’re having fun in the mountains Dave
I have sweaty palms just watching that
Stay safe man!
Thanks Corbin, I'll do my best :)
I’m sweating just watching this, and at one point my heart was beating so hard my watch asked me what workout I was doing…
Haha. Intense cardio workout: Living vicariously through Brave Dave videos :P
@@BraveDave just need to wife to recognise this is the proven method to help me lose weight!
"Fuck sake... what am I doing?!". Haha. I think a lot of us have been there mate :) Funny how we keep doing it to ourselves too! Do you think in this case it was the nerves that got you more than the route itself? (not poking fun, def happened to me before too on tryfan). It's hard to judge through the fish eye of a gopro but there seemed to be a couple of good routes around that crux if you could bring your feet hip high, but I know adrenaline, doubt, sweat and fear all factor in. Either way, great decision to turn around when you did mate. Best to fight another day and all that :)
Trust me, there was nowhere obvious to go from that top part. I'm not afraid of heights, so if there had been a solid route then I'd have taken it. But I couldn't see anything which had good enough hand holds beyond a meter or so, and I didn't want to pull myself up to something only to then have to try and down-climb back to where I'd just been, without being able to see where I was putting my feet.
It's much easier when there's someone else there to spot for you, that's for sure! :P
Yeah I trust you mate, your eyes were on site and 3d, I'm looking through a 2d fish eye :) 100% agreed on the downclimb. Once you pass an overhang you remove your only good self-rescue option. Thanks again for the video, I love that you dont just show the "glamorous" bits coz personally its the risk-assessment-at-the-edge-of-comfort zone stuff that I'm interested in, and sometimes the risk assessment says gtfo!
@@mehashi If you like real-time risk assessments at the edge of comfort zones then be sure to watch my next couple of videos ;)
Do another train hopping series please 😂👌
I love stuff like Crib Goch but Bryants Gully look like my kind of hell
Yeah, it's certainly not for everyone. Very remote and enclosed!
Down climbing off that seems sketchier but I'm not there. Sweaty palms and feet! 4:3 the best
Coming down was definitely the right choice to make. And yes, 4:3 old school! :D
Good effort, wise retreat. Take a friend and a short rope next time!
Thanks Stewart! Although I don't think a friend or a short rope would be much use up there :P Well, a friend might be useful to spot for you, if they're below you and you're trying to climb down, but a rope would have no purpose on a cliff like that. It was just short, sharp stabby bits of rock.
Been climbing around 10 years, this would have been a spicy day out by any account. Leave it to Dave to go out and try a 5.6 free solo with no preparation.
Hah! My preparation was my knowing my physical and mental abilities. That's why I knew when to turn back and came to no harm :P
@@BraveDave nice, no insult intended. Way to live life to it's fullest.
0.13 - switch to Bravecam.
This made me sweat! Nice work Dave.. but are you insane?
Haha. No, I don't think so. But then if I was, would I even know??
@@BraveDave Good point. Either way, I’ve got no excuses not to summit Tryfan this weekend!
Dave big bollocks lol
Lmao the biggest scramble I've done is pike o stickle if you can even call it a scramble
I know I'm a year late to the party BUT if you've done Pike of Stickle you're only a stones throw from Jack's Rake which is a classic scramble route!
@@simondunn1580 oh fuck that, i hate exposed areas my dad ran up it a while back
I always wonder how long it'll be before the kind gentlemen in the red and white helicopter come flying over my house to peel you off a rock slab. Cool video but please be less brave Dave 🤣
you're mad for free climbing that schist!!
Nope, done with this video after 5 mins. Good luck, Dave!
But if you don't watch it you'll never know whether or not I fell to my death!!
@@BraveDave, nice try Gully!
Dear lord mate that looks very dodgy indeed
Hmm, desperate. I imagine Steve Ashton did a lot of the same thing when he was researching his seminal scrambling guide. Good bit of down-climbing though.
I had his guide in my backpack! Yeah, there must be a lot of trial and error that goes into guide books like that one. Haha.
I needed a change of underpants just watching this. And not because of the Brave Dave sex appeal 😆
Haha. Stop it, Paul! You're making me blush!
A nice retreat. Nice try anyway.
These vids make me feel nauseous
You think that's bad? Try doing it in real life! :P
FFS Davo...stick to the freight train trips mate...alot safer as got less distance to fall..and cheaper as you wont need the chopper to scrape you up off the ground...besides we all rather see you crossing some country land even if its the UK, you can always throw in scenes of you being chased by security....rather that than 'Dead Dave'...
Yeah, plenty of handholds and footholds but as you go up and the rock's erosion profile changes, the chance of finding multiple groups of 4 holds properly spaced apart for human proportions _and_ that lead upward lowers down to levels with way too many zeroes. Especially that overhang, I wouldn't trust an old bighorn ram to handle himself on that one!
Still, this wasn't wasted time, at least now you know that one cliff can't be scrambled on a whim :P
Man i would hate to get up there and find out there is nothing good to grab. You cant go down. Have you ever found yourself stuck needing help? Please stop doing that. lol
No, I've never needed help getting down from somewhere. And hopefully never will!! :P
Jesus that was uncomfortable viewing
That's what I aim for with these types of videos :P
climbing down is THE WORST
Yeah, not being able to see where you're putting your feet isn't the greatest feeling. Haha.
first init
I hate this.