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Chockstone Forum - General Discussion
General Climbing Discussion
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Climb Quality - how do you rate it? |
13-Sep-2012 At 11:35:18 AM |
pmonks
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On 13/09/2012 simey wrote:
>Given the subjective nature of starring, I much prefer a single editorial
>perspective throughout a guidebook. Even if you disagree with the author's
>perspective at least you will understand where he or she is coming from.
That's great in theory, but how many guidebook editors do you know who have a direct, personally formed opinion (i.e. have climbed) every single route in the guidebook they've edited? I could count that on no hands!
>There is nothing worse than an editor who just regurgitates the info without
>questioning any of it and then putting out a book which sees poxy routes
>getting stars and great routes getting none.
I think that's inevitable. Unless of course you're a proponent of select guidebooks to the exclusion of anything else - which might be fine for the casual visitor but sucks for locals, climbers with "unusual" tastes in climbs, the historical record etc. etc. Give me a comprehensive guidebook any day - at least then I can choose my own adventure if the alternative is queuing up behind a conga line of bumblies on some overrated "classic"! |
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