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Gorges du Tarn, France 23-Aug-2011 At 8:51:21 AM phil_nev

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On 23/08/2011 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 22/08/2011 Wendy wrote:
>>
>>7a/23!!! What sort of down grading of all the hard routes I've done are
>>you trying to do to me here!
>
>Pet hate #1) People who pepper their trip report with numbers.........in
>fact, people who pepper their climbing with numbers
>
>Pet hate #2) People who sandbag all the grades they warm up on, but prop
>up the grades they project.........i.e. if you want 8a to be 29, 7a doesn't
>really work at 23. Most probably the 8a's were only 27 or 28, but downgrading
>those would make the number-dropping heros seem less heroic........can't
>have that, can we?
>
>Pet hate #3) Captains of what?

Fark me mate, wtf is your problem?!

1) First off, I couldn't give a toss what the grades are and their relative conversion in Ewbank is, I was just psyched to climb some amazing routes in a pretty special place. The grades are simply an indication of difficulty. Despite what you might think mate, more often than not if you are talking about a route, people will invariably ask the grade, hence why I listed them in the TR.

2) As far as I'm aware, 7a is 23 and 8a is 29... If the grades are out of whack, it's certainly not intentional.
http://www.google.com.au/imgres?q=climbing+grade+conversion+table&um=1&hl=en&client=firefox-a&sa=N&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&tbm=isch&tbnid=fazieS2krO0fnM:&imgrefurl=http://www.alpinist.com/p/online/grades&docid=NGzNUTPBAjLJzM&w=344&h=524&ei=FNtSTtS8F--NmQWa-5joBg&zoom=1&iact=rc&dur=391&page=1&tbnh=167&tbnw=110&start=0&ndsp=18&ved=1t:429,r:2,s:0&tx=57&ty=47&biw=1227&bih=639

3) Captains of crush make those hand grip thing's
http://www.ironmind.com/ironmind/opencms/Main/captainsofcrush.html
A few of us thought it would be a fun name for a climbing blog.

I met you a long time ago damo, and you seemed like a pretty decent bloke. Clearly I was wrong... Trolling, sledging for no reason and generally being a douche, I can never understand why some people feel the need to bring others down.... I didn't realise that writing a little TR about my first big OS trip would make me a number dropping hero.