Laugh - and I thought it would take longer than ONE post for someone to claim "weak" or "poor form" My form is just fine. So... PULLING on GEAR is better form than trying something all free?
I'm not going to get sucked into a classic cc.com black hole however - I just wanted to know if anyone has done it. If not no worries and thanks for the read.
Shit. Do what you want. Its essentially a crag route afterall. I personally think a ground up ascent, even if you have to pull on gear, is better form than preworking a route on toprope after rapping in. But reasonable minds may disagree. Scott Burke did this a bunch trying to free the Nose, so whatever.