UKC

Following on from the Most Descriptive route names thread:
I'll kick off with Ordinary Route on Gogarth (E5)
and Proud Corner (Glen Clova) which is an arête.

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Any route with "impossible" in the name?

In reply to Rog Wilko:

West Buttress Eliminate on Cloggy is pretty good - it's far from being an eliminate.

In reply to Rog Wilko:

I was stood under Bliss in Gordale at the weekend, possibly a misnomer although I'll never know

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Isn’t Proud Corner a corner up an arete, so therefor it stands proud of the rest of the crag?

If so it is a good name, I climbed it many years ago so I might be wrong.

In reply to Rog Wilko:
Mucky Gully on Dewerstone (mod)

It may have been once, but really isn't any more.

Also, Savage Slit probably doesn't deserve its name in summer.

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Wet pussy, Craig Stirling.
DC

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Most routes put up by John Redhead

In reply to Rog Wilko:

There's a couple on here - http://northumberlandclimbing.co.uk/index.php?v=5&s=3&sid=7&id=... , one of which may require a name change. Named by the late Gordon Thompson in the 1960's.

In reply to Colin Moody:

I thought it was just because it was an 'outside' corner i.e. an arete, rather than an 'inside' corner like a diedre.

Brilliant route either way!

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Easy Pickings (VS 4b) at Cheddar Gorge North - an absolute sandbag at VS 4b, even got Severe as recently as the 2004 Cheddar and Avon guide! In reality it's around the HVS 4c/E1 5a borderline and an unexpectedly scary experience if that is your limit!

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Suicide wall at idwal

In reply to abseil:


Isn't it an 'eliminate' in the older meaning as a route seeking out a difficulties though easier lines?


Chris

In reply to Chris Craggs:



Thanks for that - I could be a bit mixed up [not unusual for me...]

In reply to Rog Wilko:

How about roof route at burbage south, it's not a roof.

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Green slab at burbage North is brown and slightly overhanging!

In reply to Pesda potato:


?? Suicide Wall at Idwal was almost suicidally dangerous when it was first done, wasn't it? First ascensionist Preston top roped it about 2 dozen times before leading it. See Brown's account of his (second?) ascent of it with Whillans.

In reply to Pesda potato:

PS. Perhaps you meant Suicide Wall at Cratcliffe, which has always been a safe route, from the day it was first climbed?

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Final Crack at Hen Cloud....pretty much in the middle of the crag.

Usually gained via Roof Route, which isn't a roof.

In reply to gethin_allen:


The slab by the crack is at the angle of a house roof - I think that's where the name comes from on that route - rather than being a roof above one's head that you have to climb round.

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Commando Ridge. Invariably climbed in underwear.

In reply to Rog Wilko:

London Wall:nowhere near London. Mitch

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Fisting Katie. it's a line at Cheddar that involves a big sloppy hand jam... got renamed to 'Licking Tarmac' as it's above the road a few years back.

In reply to A Longleat Boulderer:

but it isn't above the road, it's in a little set-back corner. Though the new family-suitable name was because that's what the goats do - I've seen them, whilst belaying that very route.

In reply to hms:
It does feel above the road when you come over the lip! But yes, now I think about it I do remember hearing the of the lemming goats!

In reply to Rog Wilko:

The route at Chudleigh with the racist(?) name is pretty inappropriate these days...

In reply to ericoides:


How do you know?

In reply to ericoides:


I didnt do it in my undies. I wore trousers and t-shirt.

In reply to andrewmcleod:


There's a route on Flat Crags called BB Corner - BB does not refer to the shot used in certain air guns - think of an inappropriate racist term ...

In reply to Rog Wilko:
Roof Route (VS 4c)

In reply to Rog Wilko:
Agony Crack really is a pussy cat compared with most classic grit HVS cracks

In reply to GrahamD:

Which ones are harder in your opinion?

In reply to hms:

Does it not say in the guidebook that they're Soay sheep, rather than goats?

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Good Crack at Charnwood Quarry, which it has been suggested should now be renamed "Dodgy Arete" due to the right hand half of the route disappearing.

Although at Charnwood Quarry, pretty much every time you climb it you're on a new route due to the, shall we say changeable, nature of the rock.

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Easy Picking (E2 6b)

In reply to Rog Wilko:
Either of the unconquorables at Stanage - done em both. Also lived thru 3 Suicide Walls.

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Little Brown Jug at Bosigran

what jug....!?

Devils Slide Lundy

If you slide, then you're doing something wrong.....

TPS

No pebbles there now....

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Wye valley on Fallen rock buttress,
One less white nigger

In reply to Trangia:


I always thought that was a great name for the feature

In reply to Trangia:



After all the effort spent trying to sort out the grade it turns out the name is wrong, too?

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Unclimbed Wall, Harrisons.

I think it has been.

In reply to Rog Wilko:

What's with the El Cap theme at Malham? Always seemed strange to pair single pitch limestone sport routes with multi-day trad/aid lines. Similar walk in, but nothing else really equates. Was it Yosemite Wall that set the theme?

In reply to General Lee:

Thanks to Elvis Costello for that one - Olivers Army.

In reply to Kirill:


Tower Crack , Cue , Terraza Crack all more painful and all at the same crag. IMO obviously. Then there are the Hen Cloud and Wimberry HVS

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Dangerous Crocodile Snogging at Ramshaw?

In reply to Trangia:



The one that is either a hold or a gear placement but not both? It certainly felt like a massive jug when I found it, but I was seconding - my partner had used it for gear so its jugness wasn't apparent!

In reply to Trangia:



I think it's just a part of the musical theme going on at Bosigran. Along with Anvil Chorus, Visions of Johanna etc.

In reply to Nick Russell:

true, but they look pretty goaty when they are eyeballing you!

In reply to hms:

I thought that about Ordinary Route. Did it many years ago, but I can still remember it. After the crux you,ve still got to do Positron. Definitely not ordinary!

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Re: Ordinary Route. Slab and Crack at Curbar for masterly understatement.

In reply to Trangia:




I always thought the LBJ was supposed to be a peg originally

In reply to Rog Wilko:
One that has always bugged me is South East Gully on Great End. According to the route's position it should be North East Gully.

Another one that is certainly inappropriate in my case anyway is Moeglichkeit at Bamford!

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Most inappropriate route name has to be Rape at chew dale lower..... I mean why!!!

In reply to Rog Wilko:

Crock of Shit (7c) seems a little harsh for a 2* route!

In reply to Rog Wilko:
An arete is an (outside) corner. Proud Corner is a beautifully apt name fully in the tradition of climbing word play.