| User |
Comments |
climberman
2/8/2016
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Gained a grade ?
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IdratherbeclimbingM9
2/8/2016
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I like the soft (natural) lighting, and the exposure allowing for it, in this photo.
Climber has not much trad gear left on rack...
Either has the climb dialed, or may have been in for an interesting top-out higher up? |
Martym
2/8/2016
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How do you make Flake Crack look like you're climbing a juggy arete?
In all Fairness M9 - you can't see the right hand side of his harness, which is
where a climber who has it dialed may store their medium sized cams... and
realistically - once you start lay-backin' on Flake - the easiest thing is to just
keep on lay-backin to the top...
None of which is evident in this photo. I like the grimace on his face though.
And yeah - when did FC become an 18? |
Drake
2/8/2016
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FC ain't no 18, and that ain't the crux of the route either. Perhaps the climber has
little gear because they finished at Faith's chains, rather than continuing up through
the rooflet to actually finish FC. |
White Trash
2/9/2016
 
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a BGR?
whats that? bolted gearless route? beginner grade route? bloody great route? |
IdratherbeclimbingM9
2/9/2016
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@ flake crack (18)
... Should read, Flake Crack (17)
It is sad to see incremental creep happening to The historic bench-mark/s home of the Ewbank Grading System... |
Sonic
2/9/2016
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Echoing the comments above, what is a decent photo is effectively ruined by the completely inaccurate caption and considering they've copied BGR straight outta the guide, surely they would've noticed the big, bold 17 there too?
M9, is incremental creep a nice euphemism for what I know as 'wank factor'? |
climberman
2/10/2016
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Nice shot though. |
rocksinmyhead
2/11/2016
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Nice shot, but incremental grade creep? Nah, it's good old fashioned bullsh1tting! The first pitch, which this sure looks like, was only 15 in the old '95 SRC guide. |
IdratherbeclimbingM9
2/16/2016
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@ Sonic...
;-) |
stugang
2/21/2016
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its solid 18 if you don't clip all the new bolts. |
Jayford4321
2/22/2016
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They did that at the same time they retro'd Eternity dint they? |
