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Uber classic oz offwidths 8-Jan-2017 At 7:09:48 PM PThomson

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I don't know if it's "uber classic", but not having many pure hard(ish) offwidths in The Blueys, I can say that Transcendental Meditation (22) at Zig-Zag in the Blue Mountains (which Mike Law mentioned above) epitomises the unavoidable pure-offwidth requirement like no other route I've come across up here.

Normally I can find some trickery to get around actually having "good" offwidth technique, or use my shoulder strength in chicken-wing gaston arm-bars to burl my way past it without any "developed" offwidth technique...

But after just spending 2 x 45min sessions on Transcendental Meditation, I never managed to tick it. I came close (within an inch or so, but just couldn't make ANY more height to complete the crux and mantle the slopers), and tore myself apart in every sense imaginable, but it beat me down, and left my crying (and complaining about my failure) today.

NOTE: The dorky individual in the photos below is my dad, who came out to belay me today =P

Regards,

- Paul Thomson