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Rings on 8-Aug-2012 At 12:22:16 PM Linze

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On 7/08/2012 Samuel wrote:
>Fact is. No body climbed it.

This is such a sh!tty rationale. A route doesn’t need to get ascents to have value. There are plenty of seldom repeated lines in the world and the reputation of some these makes climbing interesting. Not saying that the run out nonsense on exhibition wall is in that category, but they are known to people, and more than once I have been at pub listening to people muse about doing them - I reckon that there is a good chance that this trash talk was probably more memorable than any of the moves these routes would offer. If someone did repeat em in the original style I would be impressed – and would value this more than it being made into another mundane line for talentless climbers.

There is already a fun and well protected 24 slab at the crag (iron filings or whatever it is called), wasn’t a spot of chalk on it earlier this year, so it doesn’t seem like the demand is there anyway.