Isn't there a route somewhere called "Too hard for X", where X is (was?) a famous and really quite good climber (sorry, that's not a very helpful description is it?!).
I think the route is V Diff or something, anyway X (whoever he is) could no doubt p*ss up the route in boxing gloves and roller skates. Is that antonymic enough?
"Too Hard For Jim Perrin" in the Llanberis Pass; a bit harder than V diff but I think that in the 1988 pass guide, Paul Williams' comment was something like "not true, Jim pissed it"
'Smith's Route', on the Ben (Smith failed, Marshall led), and shortly afterwards Marshall's Wall (somewhere else in Glencoe; Marshall failed, Smith led).
Another example of the same phenomenon - Bobby's Groove.
> I haven't done it (yet) but from the thread on 'The Mincer' got me thinking about route names that are in total opposition to their style.
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> Overhanging Bastion has no overhanging climbing on it (although that may change given recent geological activity).
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> Any others?
But isn't the name Mincer totally apposite for the route? ie it minces you
I think there is also a boulder problem at Raven Tor called 'Too Hard for Mark Leach' or something like that isn't there? About V5 or something so I reckon Mark Leach would have been just fine...
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> I think you mean Smith's Gully on Creag Meagaidh. Smith's Route on the Ben was done by the pair of them during that big week in 1960.
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