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Help a chap out 6-Jun-2012 At 7:02:07 PM crazyjohn

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On 6/06/2012 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 6/06/2012 crazyjohn wrote:

>That's an interesting philosophical stance mate. The idea of everyone
>stepping up to their personal level of incompetence. Instead of climbing
>a route which you could do at a reasonable pace, why not go and clog a
>harder route and piss off the folk at the next level up? Why didn't you
>go solo All Along the Watchtower if you're such a hard hitter?
>
>You'll notice I wasn't hanging shit on the nice Canadian blokes who kinda
>held us up on Becky Chouinard. Just the guys hanging ropes the whole way
>up the area classic for a week.

The difference is that there are no queues on watchtower. You wouldnt have clogged it up because there are a million climbers climbing 5.8 and no one climbing 5.11. Just like no one is climbing most of the 3000 other harder routes at araps. It does not take much effort to climb hard enough to get out of the quagmire of line-ups on easy climbs.However, its easy to line up behind bumblies and insult them. .

I can see your point. But look at this way:

The reason why The Bard and BC route and all the other good moderate routes are queued up is because they are easy. The people queuing up enjoy climbing easy stuff. It is not because the easy routes are better than harder routes. It doesnt take a great deal of effort to go from 5.8 to 5.11. It just takes that extra bit of commitment that mediocre people will not make. For whatever good reasons they have mediocre people log jam at that mediocre grade.