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since HEN-RY is 11a i'll go with that.

I pulled a flipper at the anchors on Karmic Retribution and crushed my elbow protecting my head (that in turn led to a screwed up left shoulder that i am still feeling a year and a half later).
I was glad to see it upped to 10d because of my ego but it isn't that hard with the beta... tough onsite though... especially if it's wet out right.

agree on monkey bars and Girls gone wild WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!! that thing has gotta be 11.

vision, roadside attraction, and diamond in the rough... i gotta disagree, those routes felt spot on for the grade. i climbed them all when i first starting climbing and all i climbed were trad routes and 5.7 was my limit (sadly)... (i thought sport climbing was neither... now i'm a full on sport junkie). But, maybe i thought they were spot on because i climbed a lot at seneca so i was used to stout trad lines...

annie the annihilator and karmic retribution... now, i've gotta agree with these 2 routes. for whatever reason, they felt stout to me for the grade... (on a side note, i wasn't thrilled with annie and i'll never do it again [no offense to the fa]. but i think karmic retribution was a stellar line and very unique for the rrg, very fun climbing, i'd recommend it to anyone that hasn't gotten on it... it kind of reminded me a little of climbing on limestone...)

the love song of j. alfred and a portrait of the artist... i thought these were both stout for the grade... i thought the unbearable lightness was easier than both of these 2 routes...

i'm surprised no one has mentioned the dude abides... i think that thing is stout for 11a... that's another route i wasn't to thrilled on and i'll probably never climb it again... i'm glad i did it on my first go-around...

hellraiser... this is another one i gotta disagree on... i think it was stout at 12b, but i don't know if i agree with the upgrade to 12c... but w/e, i'll take it at 12c...

alright, i guess i'm done with my rambling...

oh... i forgot to add either jungle gym or monkey bars... i don't rememer which one... it's the one that goes up through a big sloper at around the 15 foot mark... thought it was stout for the grade, but maybe that had something to do with the fact that i was climbing it in the middle of the summer...

1 more... jet lag... thought the roof pull was tricky for a 5.9, maybe something has broken off of this thing? it looked like there used to be something better on the lip of the roof that has maybe been pulled off...???

Nothing broke

I'm with the dude abides...a few of the bolts feel like 11+ clips even if the climbing is only 11a....mebbe I just wasn't reading the route right, quite possible...

Silk wrote:mebbe I just wasn't reading the route right, quite possible...

quite possible for me too... quite possible for all the routes that i mentioned that i thought were stout...