Dave MacLeod whipping on E11

[David Trippett]

A trailer from planetfear.com showing Dave MacLeod

taking 70 foot whippers on "Rhapsody" -E11 (14c runout trad()).

 

http://www.planetfear.com/includes/video/film/72.wmv

[RuMR]

[G-spotter]

It's 14b trad

[David Trippett]

Sorry little one.....F8c+ = 14c

 

[G-spotter]

F8c = 14b

F8c+ = 14c

F9a = 14d

 

Equivalent French grade of Rhapsody as given in magazine interviews with Macleod (not on promotional website) is F8c. It's a long 13c crack with good gear and then a basically gearless 40 foot headwall.

[David Trippett]

hmmmm....thats funny 'cause his mate Rhubarb Sauvage, who I climb with, said its 8c+

 

truly you are the quibbler elf.

[G-spotter]

MacLeod has never climbed a sport route harder than 14b...

[David Trippett]

ok you win champ.... I'll correct the original post. Sorry.

[Mos_Chillin]

I think after 5.13X, it would be ok to change the lettering sequence around a bit in the American rating system to reflect the type of supreme idiocy and risk associated with that particular type of traditional sending:

 

5.14b Tard

 

BTW:

[David Trippett]

Dru, You better let Dave know its not 8c+

 

http://www.8a.nu/site2/?IncPage=http%3A/...istViewType%3D0

[G-spotter]

ppphhhhttt that's not what he told the UK mags. Maybe he's trying to get rated higher than #234 in the world

[David Trippett]

The defense rests.

[Mos_Chillin]

But the Quibbler never will. You need at least 10,000 post to even come close...of course, one could take their defense to another judge....

[olyclimber]

[David Trippett]

quibbler wins? mistrial!

[G-spotter]

You cannot believe the amount of bullshit that some of the Ol' Boys put out

on the Internet about the history and "rules" on the developing of the

broad net and how people must behave. This is one way they preserve power.

People who in any way challenge the "club" get pronounced "clueless

newbies," "net abusers," and other less charitable things. Within this,

however, there might be some element of truth insofar as history really

does exist and certain proprieties of behavior do exist.

 

The point then is to be able to separate the signal from the noise.

 

That's where you and Yoda Keebler come in. You especially (and Yoda to a

lesser extent) know the real early history because you lived through it

and are willing to share it. I will sometimes need accurate sources of

information about the T.A.P. and other "pre-Internet" periods and want to

be able to get it from people like you, Yoda, and others (subject, of

course, to your own time schedules, work loads, and needs.)

 

Onto a third point: I am not terribly turned on by the WWW. My idea of a

good source of information is the phone book, not colored glossy ad pages

in a magazine. I have been exploring the uses of ftp as a major source of

data distribution. ftp sites are far faster to "program," get up on a

foreign server, and debug. They also deliver data faster to the end user

than does the web.

[miladugga]

OMG, those are some pretty impressive falls. I really am a big baby! Better start trying to toughen up a little.

[Mos_Chillin]

Yah, no shit. I only have mementos of ripping small wires from the aid days...