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Reach into your pants and untwist your undies...
I wasn't there, so I don't know anything more than I'm sure I read in one of the rags that it was Alan Watts.
If you say it was the locals, I stand corrected.
I'll undo my undies when you pull your thong out of yo' crack...
Whatever...first off, it was todd skinner who spent off and on over a year trying to get that thing to beat alan to the punch...as it was, alan never did do an ascent but came very very close in just a weekend. Alan, at that time, was probably hands down the best crack climber in the country. I worked for alan in 1992 and got alot of this first hand, although its been awhile, and he's about the most honest person around and laughs because of how uptight the locals were that somebody could actually climb that hard, when he considered it as a possible onsight. He wound up cutting his finger bad enough to go home and never wound up back here. By the time it looked like todd was going to actually do that thing, the locals smeared grease in to stop him and Alan was long gone.
Jeff Smoot had a decent writeup on the whole ascent of city park on his website a while ago.