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NEWS: FRI NIGHT VID: Hazel Findlay Cruises 8a/b Trad Crack - The Doors

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 UKC News 04 Sep 2015
Hazel Findlay on The Doors, 3 kbIn this week's Friday Nighter we've got Hazel Findlay literally walking up The Doors at Cadareza. Grades given for this amazing line range from 7c+ to 8b, depending on hand size, crack skills and sandbagging ability.

Her hands are quite small, her crack skills are second to none and her sandbagging ability is legendary. All these things combined means that watching Hazel on this makes it look like a HVS! Believe us when we say it isn't.

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 jon 05 Sep 2015
In reply to UKC News:

Is that an alternative spelling for Cadarese?
 Postmanpat 05 Sep 2015
In reply to UKC News:

I'm simultaneously hugely impressed and very depressed. How does anyone make something that hard look so effortless?!
 Tom Last 05 Sep 2015
In reply to UKC News:

"Her hands are like shovels..."! Bet she loves that!
In reply to UKC News:

Interesting video; makes it look very different from the other ones on line.

Was this onsight, do we know? Impressively smooth even if it wasn't.

The article suggests HF is a particular crack specialist; is that right? I didn't know it.

jcm
 John2 05 Sep 2015
In reply to johncoxmysteriously:

Once Upon a Time in the Southwest - crack? Don't think so.

Chicama - crack? Don't think so.

Rainbow of Recalcitrance - crack? Don't think so.

Hands like shovels? Don't think so.
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 bensilvestre 07 Sep 2015
In reply to John2:

Quite a lot of hard cracks on the various routes she's freed on El Cap. She climbs a lot in the states so it'd be rather hard for her not to become a crack specialist of sorts. And I don't know about her hands but those fingers make mine look like pencils!
 stp 08 Sep 2015
In reply to johncoxmysteriously:

> Was this onsight, do we know?

It's a good question. And if so and it's 8a/b then presumably would that make it the hardest onsight by a British female? Emma Twyford impressively onsighted Statement of Youth, Lucy Creamer has onsighted various 8a's abroad but I can't think of anyone onsighting harder than 8a.

Is it 8a/b just for the climbing or for the climbing plus placing the gear?
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