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Will Punks ever be onsighted? 28-Aug-2008 At 3:21:07 PM MrsM10iswhereitsat.

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Mr simey wrote;
>Grades, schmades. You have the Cossey boys pulling off exceptional ascents in the Blueys and Buffalo and then going overseas and tearing it up in places like Yosemite and on grit in the UK. And then there is Chris Webb-Parsons bouldering exceptionally well both here and abroad.

>Climbing in this country would be in the doldrums if the the most newsworthy thing was someone climbing some poxy eliminate that might or might not be one grade harder.

Strangely enough, Derek my M10 love agrees with you Mr simey. It must be an aging thing I suppose. Why just after reading your post he was earnestly telling me “What is all this preoccupation with hard young men about the ~~size~~ ~~verti~~ difficulty of things?”
“The hard young things of today ought to be tearing up the old guidebooks instead of condoforming to them. Do their own thing and leave the reporters to work out what is newsworthy amongst the turkeys” he says!

He did tend to rave on a bit, however I tend to agree with him that having the pox is a sure fire way to put your love life in the doldrums, and I am glad to hear you think the same way Mr simey.

(Excuse my typing corrections as it is hard to keep up with him when he gets all fired up).