Just a quick post to say if you have not checked out the New Durham area yet it is well worth the effort. Quality rock and quality climbing. The routes we checked out Sunday afternoon at Longstack were excellent. True to grade and descriptions in the guide book were pretty much spot on. Bugs were not bad until dark.
Safety note - There is a football sized block at the top of the small right facing corner / flake (kind of small to calla corner?) of
The Way Back Machine that needs to be trundled. I will go back as soon as I can and do it if no one else does first but I cannot get there this week. A busy Sunday afternoon was not the time to be do it.
At the very end of the corner / flake there is a great left hand jug and what looks like a perfect pocket for .5 cam but when I gave the cam a test pull it easily pulled the block out almost half way.
Not wanting to dump it on my partner or anyone else I put it back after warning my partner to avoid it.
Just and FYI.
The place is really cool and well done. Look forward to a return trip.
