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What's the scariest lead that you've ever done? 20-Apr-2009 At 8:52:53 PM Paulie

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Pretty much everything over 16 is mildly terrifying these days, even Blue Mtns sport routes!

Scariest one I can recently remember was this 6a+ (18 apparantly...more like 22) thing in a chossy quarry near Glasvegas (Scotland) up a slippery overhung slime filled bottomless basalt 'chute' with pro a very very long way below. Typical bloody UK crappy shite, this one stands out because of the crazy slipperness of the rock and the terrifying fact that 1/2 way up (20mtrs?) I ran out of inventive ways to contort my body.

Another that springs immediately to mind is this horrible 20mtr+ slabby thing (21 from memory) way below Beowulf (Mt Buffalo) that has a very bad rusty carrot at the start then you have to protect it using 0 and 00 RPs between crystals and shite seams for the rest of the "route", I can't even remember climbing the last 1/3 of the route, I think I went into a zen state of pure concentration - top out or die!