UKC

What are the most significant sends you can recall in your climbing career? It doesn't have to be the hardest grade you have ever climbed, it could be the first f6B or F7a you ticked or something you worked for considerable time. Even (dare I say it) something you sent indoors.

For me It would be Morrell's Wall as it was the first problem I ever got on and completed outdoors, took me about an hour but it was a great introduction to real rock.

The reason of making this post is that I have recently ticked my first f7B (ouside the gym ofc) and I felt like that was a massive step in my climbing. That would be a close second.

In reply to AMorris:

Full circuit of The Arches traverse, Lady Bay Bridge, Nottingham, roughly V4 5c, took me over a year of occasional but increasing effort. The week after I did it they took loads of the holds off then they ruined a lot of the best stonework by painting it.

I wouldn't work a problem on real rock as its seems a bit unethical in terms of wear and tear and very expensive on petrol.

In reply to AMorris:
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at least 8.5/10 to both of you

In reply to Offwidth:

Done the Terrace Wall traverses? I was a happy man when I completed the middle tier.

In reply to AMorris:

I once sent a jacket to another UKCer, and I once sent my wife back to the car for the ropes. Can't think I've ever sent anything else whilst climbing.

In reply to AMorris: i sent a text message

In reply to Jonny2vests:

Enemy territory, grrrr.

In reply to AMorris:


For me personally, it has always been when i send my rockshoes off to be resoled.

The difference afterwards is incredible.

In reply to AMorris:

Send?

Is that yoof speek?

In reply to The Lemming:

Boulderer. 'nuff said.

In reply to John_Hat:

Nah. He's a fake. Look at the profile pic. Shirt off? Check. Knickers showing above keks? Check. Beaney? Whoops no. Definite imposter

In reply to AMorris: Application to start my nurse training the second time around

In reply to The Lemming:

"Send" as a climbing term has been used since the early 90s, possibly longer... hardly yoof speak, more like old school knowledge!
Obviously only used by people able to climb harder than VS.

In reply to JIMBO:

True, but for well over the first half of that period it was only used ironically in this country, at least in my experience. The present yoof seem to think it's actually a real word.

jcm

In reply to johncoxmysteriously:
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=send%20it
See entry 4.

In reply to JIMBO: So what exactly does it mean as I'm no wiser?

In reply to Sean Kelly: is it an abbreviation of Ascend?

In reply to JIMBO:

Indeed. And 3, a little bit.

Still, you never heard it used unselfconsciously in this country until recently, did you?

jcm

In reply to johncoxmysteriously: I did and used it myself in genuinosity!

In reply to JIMBO:

I remember laughing in somebody's face when they asked me if I had any beta.

Now that was a big ask.

In reply to AMorris:

'sending' my first E2 without falling off was nice, but not as nice as climbing The File which was a pure pleasure (and I'd wanted it since seeing the cover of Eastern Grit)

In reply to Jimbo C:

That rather contrasts with my climbing of The File which was pure swearing.

In reply to John_Hat:

It's essentially a line of jugs if you like your jamming. Pumpy I'll grant you, but beautiful all the same.

In reply to Jimbo C:

Oh, I never said I didn't enjoy it. But I did swear a lot....

In reply to JIMBO:

Oh well, that proves it.

Every time you use 'send' like that, Jesus kills a kitten.
Do you also say 'bon effort'? Two kittens.

In reply to Offwidth:

Whereas Lady Bay Bridge is the one you sleep under?

I've heard it said that LBB isn't as good as TW, but what do I know, never even pulled on LBB. Scared of monsters that live underneath.

In reply to Wiley Coyote: Hahaha! Im ordering a beanie as we speak, one so big I could freebase with it

In reply to AMorris:

I thought boulderers just smoked weed, I didn't realise yoofs were on crack now!

In reply to AMorris:

I've been climbing for over 35 years, racking my brain to think of sends I've completed; the only one that comes to mind is

WhitS END Direct.

I'm sure folk will be able to think of others

In reply to kevin stephens:

I connected that (via an E2, 6b traverse) with Howard Send.

In reply to Jon Stewart: Oh god no, Im onto the dirty stuff now. Ground up MP's

In reply to Jonny2vests:

Of course really its mainly because I lived in the meadows and my mates were more interested in those two venues ( I climbed even more at TB).

In reply to kevin stephens:

SENDero Luminoso

ALC

In reply to a lakeland climber


Thought I saw Harry Potter send that one...

In reply to a lakeland climber:
Excellent 5.10A in Owens River Gorge!

In reply to JIMBO:

Wow! i had never heard of it until yesterday!
But then VS is largely beyond me

In reply to JIMBO:

Loving your work there

In reply to JIMBO:

Aye, used by cabbage hall yanks.