Gaia.... terrifying.

Post by **rhunt** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 9:57 pm

schwagpad wrote:Think hard grit climbers will go extinct from natural selection?

Yes

Post by **L Day** » Tue Dec 23, 2008 11:12 pm

Nope.

Post by **michaelarmand** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:07 am

Yeah....it looks like a sweet climb - for the crazy. It would be fun to get on with a toprope though....

Post by **Myke Dronez** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 12:18 am

that shit would be bolted in a hurry around here.

Post by **schwagpad** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 2:09 am

L Day wrote:Nope.

I guess their undeveloped sense of self preservation is balanced by the attractive power of there huge testicles.

Post by **L K Day** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:06 am

Those gritstone testpieces are among the coolest things in climbing. World class adventure on a fifty foot crag....amazing.

Post by **512OW** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:10 am

Xtant wrote:Saw a vid of a guy falling who didn't have that second rope. He smacked the arete and broke his leg. I think I'd deal with the distraction. Then again, I climb 5.8s so my shoes still distract me :p

Several people have taken that fall, with a crash pad on the arete, and just gotten a little bruised.

Post by **512OW** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 3:10 am

L K Day wrote:Those gritstone testpieces are among the coolest things in climbing. World class adventure on a fifty foot crag....amazing.

They were... until Team America destroyed all the myths about them by hikin everything they threw at them...and downgrading most of it.

Post by **L K Day** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 4:56 am

Twenty years after the fact.

Post by **512OW** » Wed Dec 24, 2008 6:42 am

Not all. The "hardest routes on grit", The Promise and The Groove, were put up only recently, and when compared to American highball boulders, aren't that difficult OR scary. Gaia is actually only 12c or d.