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Great second pitches 13-Nov-2003 At 10:39:54 AM G

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Not having done any of those climbs I can't comment specifically as to why they are not done.

In general I suppose it may depend on the quality of the pitches, i.e. if a climb had an excellent first pitch which was followed by pitches of choss, I wouldn't be surprised if only the first got done. I know I have come across climbs where I wish I could skip the first pitch and go staight to ptiches 2 and 3, Sword in the Stone at Mt difficult for example. But that is getting off the topic. Alternatively, I it could also depend on why the person is doing the climb, i.e. if they just want to tick the grade of the first pitch then the effort required to turn the single pitch into a multi-pitch plus may be more effort than they want (not that there is anything wrong with that).

As for claiming the ascent, at the least I suppose you could claim the ascent of the crux pitch. However, that only really works when there is one pitch that is significantly harder than the others. In the case where there are say three ptiches all of the same grade I think it is a bit tenuous to try to claim the ascent.