Cheque Pictures

Time for some natural grit on the third day of Grit Trad Week 2025 🌅 Beautiful early autumn weather this week- I hope you’re all able to get out and enjoy it.
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This is Jake Lee on The Rasp at Higgar Tor, a route that needs no introduction!
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Jake and belayer Mel took very different approaches to clothing choice on this day 🌞🌚 As I was saying the other day I never pose climbers or set photos up at all as I like to capture what would have been happening whether I was taking a photo of it or not. Sometimes that means I miss shots or that the leader has drab colours on but I think the need for them to be dressed like a Pokémon is sometimes overvalued, particularly in shots where they’re already filling quite a lot of the frame.
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Anyway, stay tuned for more grit trad pics!

🍁Grit Trad Week 2023 day 🖐️🍁
Today’s photo is of Seb Lopez engaged with the scary runout finish of Loopy in Wilton 1 😬.
This is from a few weeks ago at the annual BMC Wiltonfest, a great opportunity to climb at a fantastic group of venues that aren’t on a lot of climbers’ radars. A group of us from Sheffield go up every year and always joke about how the crowd is mainly old Lancashire blokes chuntering about the good old days 👴 and while that’s always been a bit of an exaggeration this year’s event was massively attended with a huge and diverse crowd 👬👩🏼‍🤝‍👩🏿👫🏽. By the time we’d finished climbing all the food had been eaten!
Two more days of grit trad photos left to go… 🍂