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Iskra Crag update 10-Aug-2017 At 10:36:43 AM johny

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Ross is right. Its funny how some people assert their opinions about rock climbing style as a logical certitude.

In Yosemite Astroman was renamed from its old aid name after it was freed "I was not too happy with the route name Astroman when I first heard it. Sure, the word itself had a fabulous ring to it, but the newly named route already had a name. This was what disturbed me. Never mind that the old name was pedestrian: the East Face of the Washington Column. This was back in 1975, and the arrogant notion of re-naming a route once it had been freed was fairly new." Steve Roper from Supertopo.

At Flinders Island in Skull Cave I freed an 8 metre roof and called if Truffle Shuffle from the 80's movie Goonies. It shares the start to the Phantom put up by Mike Law in the 90's.

Well I renamed Skull Cave to Goonies Cave and want to have a bunch more Goonies inspired route names. The Phantom is kind of funny but I never liked the comic. Goonies is better I think. I doubt Mikl will be too pissed off. I hope.... errr... :) I didnt rename his route, mind you. Just the cave kind of. Everyone I know calls it Goonies cave, so regardless of what they use to call it in the old book, we call it Goonies cave now. Does this shed some light on a harmless transition in nomenclature?