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General Climbing Discussion

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Pioneers of Tassie's Best Climbs 14-Sep-2016 At 5:52:05 PM Simone
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On 14/09/2016 Stugang wrote:
>There are two purposes of the four components of a route (I.e. naming a
>route, grading a route, starring a route and describing a route).
>
>Firstly to provide sufficient information for someone to make an informed
>decision on death and to have a good day at the crag.
>
>Secondly to annoy the hell out of people that take themselves too seriously.
>
>
>Contrary to popular belief the two objectives are not mutually exclusive,
>and they can be achieved across all four components on a single route (though
>this happens rarely).
>
>All in all Gerry seems to have done a pretty good job on both objectives.
>Kudos.

I don't think Tastrad is trolling.

Four components? What about the one that renders all four as secondary, ie climbing a route whether written up or not.

When I climbed in Tassie recently, I also came across locals suggesting to me to take a couple of stars off G Narkyblitz routes.

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