Steepest route in the Red?

Post by **One-Fall** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 9:02 pm

I was wondering which route in all of the Red could be deemed the steepest route. Sport, trad, mixed, makes no difference. Any suggestions?

Post by **Artsay** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 9:10 pm

Do roofs count? If so, then the roof cracks would win.

If they don't count then my vote is for one of those steep ass routes at the Bob Marley Wall.

Post by **SCIN** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 10:04 pm

Drug Pusher, Hidden Dragon, Burden of Dreams, Crouching Tiger, The Battlement, Better Red than Dead, Where's the Beef.

Post by **One-Fall** » Fri Jan 09, 2004 11:20 pm

Roofs definately count. A few I had in mind where Tacit, Reticent, Blood Bath, Where's the Beef?, and "Chunnel".

SCIN, I have seen CT and HD (with you actually), are the others you said as steep as those? Trad as well?

Post by **Andrew** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 12:12 am

I think reticent or tacit starts going back down towards the ground a little. Its hard to get much steeper than beyond horizontal. Did that make sense??

Post by **SCIN** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 12:26 am

Drug Pusher is a 8 foot roof.
Burden of Dreams is about a 25 foot roof (and probably one of the best routes in the Red).
Better Red Than Dead is about 25 feet also.

Post by **SCIN** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 12:33 am

And there's plenty more roofs to go down:

Post by **Wes** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 2:53 am

But, some of those roofs don't "climb" steep.

To me, you should use how much the route overhangs (distance from start to where you lower off), or the ave. angle of the routes. So, I would say some of the Motherload routes are steepest. Or maybe some of the 13's at torrent.

Wes

Post by **Jeff** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 3:09 am

Did you guys post all of those routes as links, or is that a new feature that routes will now show up as links automaticly?

Post by **SCIN** » Sat Jan 10, 2004 3:29 am

It's just me trying to promote how cool the online guidebook is.