Tower of Power Repeated!

[climb2core]

Classic.

[clif]

some consider ron jeremy a legend

[toad857]

He has a tiny pecker ....but I guess all things are relative.

[LK Day]

Wikipedia says this: "The word classic means something that is a perfect example of a particular style, something of lasting worth or with a timeless quality." I'd say that fits perfectly - no need to misinterpret. For me Tower of Power is a classic example of old school, devil may care, red river gorge adventure climbing - where we sought out the steepest, most outrageous looking thing we thought we could lead and climbed it, no projecting, no drilled anchors, no whining, no excuses.

[toad857]

Let's not and say we did.

[toad857]

More routes should have hype & lore, though.

It's a shame when an awesome, epic route is FA'ed... and then its description reads like stereo instructions. Do a good route justice and write a description that invokes magic, dragons, blurred vision, billy goats, nudity, etc. Give all of us toilet-readers something interesting while we're on the pot.

[LK Day]

It's obvious that "classic" means something at least a little different to all of us. I like what Bill Strachan said: "To me the number of people who have climbed a route has nothing to do with whether it is a classic. The aesthetic of the line itself, the moves, and its' place in the history and development of an area are what is important in defining a classic."

And Toad's right. We need more hype, more lore.

[One-Fall]

Is it really a classic if only 5 people have climbed it?

I know where you are going with this, Ray, but I'm going to misinterpret you on purpose.
Mercy the Huff would still be classic if only 5 people had climbed it, no?

[SCIN]

Sorry guys, it's hard to write hype and lore for 60 foot sport climbs. Have at it though. There are no barriers to entry in the RRG guidebook market.

Lee, only 10 years later would it be a classic because enough time would have passed to trick the younger climbers into believing that.

[toad857]

Sorry guys, it's hard to write hype and lore for 60 foot sport climbs.

You're just not drunk enough.