Too many rap bolted sport routes are low adventure low challenge?? HAHAHA my friend you have not been climbing enough sport! either that or you are climbing 5.14. That statement cannot be taken seriously be anyone unless you are climbing sport routes all over the world and all grades, from 5.5 to 5.15. Poor argument
Come on Luke...Look at realization, that thing is a low adventure bolt trail...absolutely positively has nothing going for it....
Hippy stinky trad geek w/ polypro fuzzy knee knickers showin' under their frayed cut offs...sketchin' over that RP infested shrubby, mossy ass-groove of a "route" checkin' in at the mighty 5.6 level...
i worked that thing a bunch about 7 years ago...its P-A-I-N-F-U-L! Not much fun...
had good linkage on a tr, but leading it would be sicko...too hard for me, just too much discomfort...
but what is the point of resting if you are on lead? might as well TR... plus then you get a sweet layback/hand jammie pitch to warm up fine! i am gonna lead it next dry weekend we have. thanks for callin me out Rudy.
I said "rest" not hang!! HAHAHAHAHA...
Get your on it!!!
i've never tried it...we went back and did toxic shock and even steven based on Erik's recommendations...there was a substantial queu forming up so we boogied after we were done...
Yah, but very very very well protected...Thizzis what Peter Puget was saying....that hard cracks are actually less scary than hard sport climbing...shoot, you freak out, slam a piece in and rest...
Man, i don't get you scott, that thing is waaaaaaaaaay safer than many challenging sport routes, Christ, there's gear available at any given moment on that thing...you could put 50 solid pieces in... Why would you bother w/ the top rope???
Some routes are a muthaphuckin' pain in the ass to rig a top rope...and there are many many sport routes that have some big fall potential w/ real hard climbing to get to clipping stances...
I know i know i know, NOT EVERY LINE HAS TO BE CLIMBED...