UKC

First. Rules. If someone posts a name that then gets used, some sort of honorary FA credit is due.

I'll start. It's an enduring sadness to me that Kilt Rock never acquired "Dihedral cathedral"
Or Telli wasn't "The short-spanked resentment"

In reply to Deadeye:

Despite the prevailing slatehead sense of humour, the Looning the Tube area is missing a route called Tuning the Lube.

In reply to Ramblin dave:

Despite the prevailing slatehead sense of humour, the Looning the Tube area is missing a route called Tuning the Lube.

Or 'Lubing the Tube'.

In reply to Deadeye:
Edinburgh Castle Rock

"Caught by the fuzz"(Supergrass) an obvious omission... And no I'm not up for a look despite its close proximity to work.

In reply to Deadeye:

Some old suggestions here: https://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/t.php?t=645231

In reply to Deadeye:

Poked in the Eye?

Any vegetated crag of your choice, if there're any left.

In reply to Deadeye:

Jazz Discharge Party Hats.

Orion Face, The Ben. By the late Mark Millar and (iirc) Sean Smith. Never made it beyond a new routes interim guide c. early 90s.

In reply to Removed UserStuart en Écosse:

There's a Jazz Discharge Party Hat on the culm.

Jazz Discharge Party Hat (E1 5b)

In reply to Tom Last:

I think Mark Miller also did the FA of this.

In reply to Deadeye:

thinking of this winter I thought a good name (or summary) would be "Square Route of Zero".

In reply to wercat:
Or 'Square Route of Minus 1' even?

In reply to Removed User:


Unreal dude

In reply to Deadeye:

Punishing Pembroke in the Palm....should be a traverse I think

In reply to Deadeye:

A suitable case for treatment

(would have to be a chop router mind)

In reply to Deadeye:

No suggestions, but I'm always struck by the similarity between (modern) route names and ship names in Iain M Bank's Culture novels. Attitude Adjuster; So Much For Subtlety; Funny, It Worked Last Time...; It's Character Forming, etc. Similar irreverent style.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_spacecraft_in_the_Culture_series#Nove...

In reply to Deadeye:

One Step from Infinity

In reply to andyjohnson0:

I always presumed he had done a bit of climbing, not that I think that influenced his naming of ships. One of his charecters was def a keen mountaineer.

In reply to Deadeye:

Years ago, when we did several routes on Great End Crag (Borrowdale) we were relaxing after Banzai Pipeline (get on it...) and saw a very tentative (i.e. well beyond our capacity) line near to Nagasaki Grooves. We never went near it, but it still didn't stop Johnny and me christening our route Nippon Express, after the trucks we used to see regularly chugging up the M6. We thought it appropriate in the circumstances.

In reply to cezza:


Dividing by Zero.
The future, Wouldn't that be nice.
Enjoy your worries (you may never have them again).
It never changes to stop.
Argh! My arrrrrms.
Ever circling skeletal family.
Attack of the 50ft spider. ( Suitable for goblin Combe)
Attack of the 5'11 spider. (for one boulder I've been trying)
The stairs are easier.

In reply to Deadeye:

I always thought "Army Dreamers" at St. Goven's missed a trick - why not "A Dream of Armed Forces".

In reply to Alex the Alex:

I'm fairly sure that he wasn't a climber - although he did claim to invent something called "drunken urban climbing" (https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=U9J7BwAAQBAJ&pg=PA11&lpg=PA11).

Is the character you mentioned that of Fal (the forecaster) in Consider Phlebas?

In reply to Deadeye:

I've trademarked "Shaking like a shitting dog". Because I would be...

In reply to Deadeye:

Some guys I knew wanted to create "Jungle Jim's Exploding Y Fronts" but never did. Sounds a bit zany.

In reply to Deadeye:

I'd really like to open a crag and start a celeb theme. With stuff like Britney Smears, Bear Thrills etc.

In reply to Steve nevers:

You'd have to make room for Arithmetic Error in there

In reply to Removed User:



aye

In reply to Deadeye:
I always thought something like "The tales of a T5 dirtbag" if I ever do an FA with that certain type of climber.


Oh and perhaps "They'll never catch us" next to "We're on a mission from God".

In reply to Mike-W-99:


or "I Fought The Law (and the law won)", another good song

In reply to Deadeye:

" a walk in the park"

In reply to Deadeye:

Step McStepface

In reply to Deadeye:
Parrot in a car - a tribute to Dr John Cooper Clarke - the bard of Salford. It could be used for a climb where the second was over active in offering advice to the leader about how to make progress.
He also wrote 'Attack of the 50ft woman' but that has already been used - still lots to go for in his anthology however.

In reply to keith-ratcliffe:

There's a line in Hawkwind's Sonic Attack - "Your only protection is flight". I'm looking for a line with no gear that I'm actually brave/good enough to do.

In reply to Deadeye:

Some hellishly steep route with a good rest - Knee Barney the purple dinosaur.

In reply to Deadeye:

Rylstone Cowboy

In reply to james.slater:

Surely just "Barknee the purple dinosaur"?

In reply to Deadeye:

Prolapse
I'm Spartacus and so's my wife

In reply to Deadeye:

First. Rules. If someone posts a name that then gets used, some sort of honorary FA credit is due.

One sure way is to list all The Stranglers tracks that Gibson hasn't used yet.

In reply to Deadeye:

You have to mix contempory culture with the naming - which somehow gives an indication of the timing of the FA.

Suicide Selfie - for a picturesque route that is quite bold.

Lucilles's delight - leaves you a bloody mess at the top.

Brexshit - you think the route is going to go one way...but actually goes another. Full of choss.

Independence day beta
Independence day 2.0 - two routes near a scottish border crag.

In reply to SChriscoli:

Original route two.
wombling free. Though that'd have to be a long route I think..
judge dread. For an intimidating line.
laughing gear. For the poorly protected.

In reply to edwardwoodward:

Loads of good ones can be gained from Hawkwind's "Freefall" such as;

"One step into the sky"

"Give yourself to gravity"

"The gods look up your file"

In reply to Kevster:


Presumably someone has already done "Unoriginal route"?

In reply to SChriscoli:

Brexshit is very good. Maybe someone can do it on the day we eventually depart?

In reply to Deadeye:


Along those lines, I always thought 'Extra-ordinary Route' would be a good name

In reply to Greenbanks:

Was that Johnny Lockley? I was sulking in the Rule one day, back in the late 80s, and Johnny says "go and climb with Dennis" who promptly walks in. So we went and did Greatend Corner. That's when i realised that one set of Rocks wasn't enough for a 150 ft pitch .

In reply to Dave Cundy:

Different Johnny I'm afraid, Dave. Johnny H was Dave's dad & with me on FA of Sleeping Sickness in Trowbarrow (and a few others)

In reply to Kevster:


Future Classic -one for a super esoteric route than no one of today's skills care for

In reply to Greenbanks:

We were trying to come up with names with tufa puns in whilst in Chulilla...

Tufast too furious
Tufa the price of one
Tufar gone

There were lots more but they were the best as far as i can remember

In reply to bensilvestre:

Tufa tea?

In reply to Deadeye:

There was some sort of silly mini-roof thing at one of the Dartmoor tors (can't remember which one but with typically aggressive Dartmoor granite) which was vaguely (very very vaguely) reminiscent of Crocodile at Isatis in Font, but with more skin-ripping and abrasion. I wanted to call it the Alligrator...

In reply to abseil:


Didn't they? I thought that was some variation at Avon. May be different guys, of course.

My own small suggestion, suitable for Bumhole Buttress in Llanberis, would be 'Oedipus Rim Your Mother'.

jcm

In reply to Kevster:

>wombling free. Though that'd have to be a long route I think..

Also already done at Avon, I think?

>judge dread. For an intimidating line.

There's one of these on Staffs grit, isn't there? Somewhere near Judge Jules?

jcm

In reply to Deadeye:

How about some estate agent language:

Butler's Pantry
Development Opportunity

In reply to Deadeye:

Crush the Saboteurs!

In reply to tom_in_edinburgh:


Cheery double-aspect kitchen

In reply to john arran:
Perfect. If only Millstone had flowstone.

In reply to Deadeye:

A million and one things to do.

6 million ways to die.

Both for hard multi-pitch.

In reply to Steve nevers:

And good for a runout sketchy crimpfest on wobbly flakes..

'Clenching On Broken Teeth'

In reply to FactorXXX:


Has it got "Loony Tunes"?

In reply to Deadeye:

Apparently, neither "Bojo" nor "Mugwump" are in the UKC routes database... get at it people!

In reply to Deadeye:

'I'm Brill' at the Embankment, Cheedale.

In reply to Graeme Alderson:

"And his middle name is Maria"

In reply to Deadeye:
For routes with obvious/key holds:
'Side-pulling my leg'
'Crimp Pimp'

Film themes could be good too:
'The Fellowship of the Sling' for a route with a chockstone or spike
Could also dedicate a few routes to the 'Pirates of the Carabiner' series

In reply to Deadeye:

"Motion of Confidence"

In reply to andyjohnson0:

This has been used already, at Duke's Seat!


My suggestion, for a scary Culm horrorshow perhaps - 'Death of a Shalesman'