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General Climbing Discussion

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Trashing Tassie ... it's beyond salvation 8-Apr-2011 At 1:51:34 PM tor.lattimore
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On 7/04/2011 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 6/04/2011 davidn wrote:
>
>> Closer to home a climb at Red Rocks was graded 14 until it got upgraded
>>to 20. Given ODH helped bolt that area, I suspect his involvement!
>
>Someone genuinely trying to perform a public service had accidently created
>some of the best sandbags ever.........I just wrote the guide in a way
>which reflected the self-deluding hopes of the FA. After all, who was I
>to decide what's safe 14 and what's sketchy 20?

It's not so much harder than 14 if you scramble up the ledge on the right rather than go directly up the blankish face. I always assumed that was the cause of the discrepancy... Neither climb is worthwhile compared to the easy and enjoyable "18" that ends up under the roof on the far right.

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