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NEWS: New 8B Problem in Ogwen for Pete Robins

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 UKC News 27 Mar 2013
Pete Robins at Lower Pen Trwyn, North Wales, 3 kbAs reported on the North Wales Bouldering website, Pete Robins has made the first ascent of a new sit-start now called Madame Allure (8B).
This adds a few moves on to existing problem Danny LaRue, a which was first climbed in 2010 by Mike Adams and is in the Ogwen valley, North Wales.

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Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=67948
 williamsf1 27 Mar 2013
In reply to UKC News: well done and all but its hardly a new route
Tony Simpson 27 Mar 2013
In reply to williamsf1:

Should it not be know as Danny LaRue sit start?

A new name for an existing problem is not fair play and is demeaning to the FA of the original problem.

Think the news team should change this......
 Steve nevers 29 Mar 2013
In reply to UKC News:

Have to agreed its a bit disrespectful to over-dub the name of the original problem. All that work cleaning/developing a problem just for someone to add a move and stamp their name over yours makes all that hardwork pointless. (well, not entirely but you know what i'm trying to say.)

Either name it Danny LaRue SS, or list it as a new problem alongside the existing ones on that crag.
 Rachael Barlow 30 Mar 2013
In reply to UKC News: upon reading the full north Wales bouldering report you will find this is an extension not a sit start, so ner

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