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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Oct 11, 2011 - 10:01pm PT
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First redpoint attempt?
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ß Î Ø T Ç H
Boulder climber
bouldering
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Oct 11, 2011 - 10:12pm PT
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Roxy
Trad climber
CA Central Coast
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Oct 11, 2011 - 10:16pm PT
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sick!
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icaro
Trad climber
Los Angeles, CA
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Oct 11, 2011 - 10:30pm PT
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legit!!! these dudes are awesome...
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MH2
climber
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Oct 11, 2011 - 10:42pm PT
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AND, on their site they point you to Footless Crow (under Good Writing) and 15 Sept 2011 is the account of Samuel Young getting rescued by John Muir!!!
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Oct 11, 2011 - 11:14pm PT
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Now uprated to .13c!
I always thought it looked hard!
Cheer mates
Cheers Shanti!
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Oct 11, 2011 - 11:29pm PT
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kuehl
wide gets literary
heh
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Russ Walling
Gym climber
Poofter's Froth, Wyoming
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Oct 11, 2011 - 11:55pm PT
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I wonder if they borrowed someone's wide gear and hammer-smashed (ie...destroyed) a green Big-bro into a fixed position on this climb too...
Wow! how cryptic? Were you trying to say something there? Do tell.....
Good job lads! Your ticklist is a career and then some. I'm going out back to do a sit up right now.
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crunch
Social climber
CO
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Oct 12, 2011 - 02:21pm PT
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Well done!
What's next?
Reminds me of the old Sheridan cartoon, with a bored Royal Robbins twirling a yoyo:
"Are there no worlds left to conquer?"
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Oct 12, 2011 - 04:16pm PT
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Crunch, if we put Tom and Pete on the No Fly List, we can claim them as Americans thus avoiding a rout of American Offwidth Hegemony; what do you think?
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Peter Haan
Trad climber
San Francisco, CA
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Oct 12, 2011 - 04:33pm PT
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You're right Dingus plus insanely funny as always.There apparently is no leaving you behind, Dingus. Right, "they'd just row home in a dingus".
This business of inversion that these guys are so heavily exploring....it is faintly disturbing Pilgrims and I sense the thin edge of the wedge. Clearly they knew about the Century Crack (or as our very own Crunch insisted on titling, Chocolate whoseyourfather) long before they paddled to our wooded shores and so had been hard at work in "their basement" in preparation---it looked like it was in one of those coal dungeons in Sheffield, even. Their agenda has only partly been revealed, you see. Since Steve Bartlett was once ever so long ago Limey also, State's secrets are nothing to him.
At some point though, they will have to face Yosemite's Pharoah's Beard; no namby-pamby Isle-ish inversion subterfuge will get them through that sucker and there will be British tears, I am afraid.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Oct 12, 2011 - 04:46pm PT
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I have no doubt these OW's are difficult routes, but some of these ratings sound like bullsh#t.
How many other super talented climbers send 14d (Century Crack) on their second day, 2nd or 3rd attempt, after never having climbed any other route in the area (or anywhere else) at that grade, nor even several letters below? Why not rate it 5.16?
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JEleazarian
Trad climber
Fresno CA
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Oct 12, 2011 - 04:51pm PT
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Wow! Gabriel looks like something I've always faced in my worst nightmares.
At some point though, they will have to face Yosemite's Pharoah's Beard; no namby-pamby Isle-ish inversion subterfuge will get them through that sucker and there will be British tears, I am afraid.
Excellent, Peter! Pharoah's Beard was my first OW lead, and was about all I could handle that day.
John
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martygarrison
Trad climber
Washington DC
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Oct 12, 2011 - 04:56pm PT
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that looks kinda fun, in a sick sorta way.
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jfailing
Trad climber
Lone Pine
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Oct 12, 2011 - 05:00pm PT
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I have no doubt these OW's are difficult routes, but some of these ratings sound like bullsh#t.
How many other super talented climbers send 14d (Century Crack) on their second day, 2nd or 3rd attempt, after never having climbed any other route in the area (or anywhere else) at that grade, nor even several letters below? Why not rate it 5.16?
Seems like these dudes are ticking America's hardest OWs like it was nothing.
Remember when Honnold, Segal and Jorgeson went to the UK and riled all the Brits up by ticking their hardest climbs off so quick?
We had it coming...
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Relic
Social climber
Vancouver, BC
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Oct 12, 2011 - 05:01pm PT
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Is there any pictures of the Pharoah's Beard? Can't seem to find any anywhere.
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scuffy b
climber
dissected alluvial deposits, late Pleistocene
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Oct 12, 2011 - 05:02pm PT
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All pics of Pharaoh's Beard have been suppressed for mental health reasons.
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JLP
Social climber
The internet
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Oct 12, 2011 - 05:06pm PT
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Seems like these dudes are ticking America's hardest OWs like it was nothing. What if the routes just aren't that hard? Nobody climbs this stuff, so there is little to no consensus.
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