In reply to Franco C:
> Why don't some of you people who can pad out a 50 foot fall with your ear come repeat them.
> Because he'd rather climb 40m pitches in the sun at Siurana than freeze up a grotty 10m arete in the rain?
correct! i did a few nice ones this morning actually. and last weekend some 60m routes at montsant. very enjoyable!
you should try it Franco
> Downgrade them if you like.
I'll wait for someone else to do that
> Perhaps on MTV they boulder it with a harness and clip bolts on the way up?
not sure what you meant by this?
> Also 35 foot = over ten metres. I think you even got your maths wrong in this hideous excuse for a toolish statement.
I didn't actually say that, did I? But as others have pointed out it wasn't a bad approximation by the man.
> To my great chum Lincoln: Do you mean at Ravenscar? I'd be impressed if anyone top roped the arete on it's left side. It seemed very hard.
There are some quite good climbers out there you know! And have been for a long time.
> Not sure Headpointing E8 (if that is what it turns out to be....) is the same level of achievement as onsighting E4?!
I'll second that. If it felt that easy, then perhaps it wasn't E8? or H7? or whatever grade you gave it
> I'm only about an E4 leader on proper routes. I only suggested it could be E8 to onsight as it's so blind.
Then maybe you should hold off on the grading until you have more experience. Be that onsighting harder routes, or headpointing harder routes (some which have actually been confirmed)
> It just like any other E7 to headpoint.
So you're a regular headpointer now? Thought you weren't into that?...