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What's up trad heads/hardmen/trolls/wizards,

I'm looking to step up my all-round climbing game ever closer to mutant status and wanted some input from the RRG wizards/oracles.

Learned on a recent trip to Yosemite that I need to step up my hard slab/offwidth/stemming game (got d*ckslapped/shutdown real hard, it hurt good) to get closer to accomplishing my ultimate purpose in life so my training focus for the meantime will be those.

Here thee, I ask you great RRG wizards, what does my future hold for hard slab/offwidth/stemming dihedral on future trips to the red?

(especially anything that's really technique/skill intensive, please, have mercy and bestow upon me your gracious knowledge )

Jack the Ripper

Inhibitor
Kaiju
Boiler Room
Swole Up
Leach Line
Vector Trouble
Jim's Dihedral
Next Day Air
B3
Stonehinge
Lorax Tree
Sam I Am
Daydreaming/tripping
Oberon
Haas Memorial Route
South Side of the Sky
Skunk Love
Nanotechnology
Buttsweat & Tears
most of the slabs at Chica Bonita
most of the offwidths at Muscle Beach

been material
afterbuner (short but fun stemming)
obviously the inhibitor
jungle beat

Where Lizards Dare

where is the "defibrulator" love

Dave the Dude and Scarlet Scorchdropper fit the bill for me, but I'm no traddy or hard man.

I'm guessing Snot Rocket might work too if you are a true warrior.

The Quest is worth doing too, along with the other cracks at lower and middle small. Also, Headstone Surfer, a few of the routes at Slab City, and Histoplasmosis & Day-Glo at Corner Pocket...

- Signed in Blood at the Crossroads
- Glide and Gorilla at the Boneyard
- Earth Bound Misfit at the Shire is supposed to be a hard bolted dihedral
- There are some hard face climbs at What About Bob as well

Can't help but think you just suck at climbing granite...