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when you are not sure if you are climbing slab, use this simple formula:



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I will go ahead and redefine my definition, which still holds true, but may also be stated as such:
any rout that hard climbers tell me is stout for the grade at the red (aka- the non jug haul routs)

OW refering to those particular routes as edging routes is no different than calling the steep shit jug haul routes.

Is everyone else as board as I am right now?

Under vert is a slab.
vert to slightly over hanging is edging / technical
Steep gets started right around were you need to turn around and put your back to the wall and look out to belay.
Example:
That's what she said = slab
Soul Ram = edging route.
Up yonder = steep.

All else is just shades of gray...

But most of all it's the form. The term "slab" suggest an architectural element. Slab routes are, uh, slabby. So it has to lie, more or less, in a single plane. Even low angle faces are generally not called slabs when they are composed of a confusing jumble of intersecting surfaces. Furthermore, the intersection of two slabs can form a ridge or an arete. A line that ascends the resultant feature would rarely be referred to as a slab route, even if the moves are pure friction.

Ever climb an edgy slab route or a slabby edge route?

If you pull a roof on a slab climb is it still a slab climb? Or do you have a slaroof?

I've seen a roof on a friction slab in Vedauwoo... but it was 13d so I can't begin to imagine how to do it...

all i know is when my partner cough: krampus cough: is telling me over and over to just stand up on it i'm probably on slab with nothing to stand on. I LOVE IT!

where is OW's input here?
I'd like to hear how he edges a slab

Is Edging the same as Slab climbing?

To me what you are asking is, what is the foot technique used?

I say slab climbing but I guess I mean "smearing with your feet". Climbing that doesn't consist of well formed holds, typicaly low angle. I have always maintained that Super Slab was wrongfully named. Because it isn't slab climbing it is "edge" or face climbing

I would also say edging routes(or a face climb) to mean a low angled or vert climb that has holds to stand on albeit small.

Technically, I am sure these are misnomers.