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

Yes

Nope.

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

that shit would be bolted in a hurry around here.

L Day wrote:Nope.

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

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

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.

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.

Twenty years after the fact.

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.