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Grade/s you most commonly lead 7-Jan-2011 At 6:49:07 AM hargs

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From a while back but worth repeating, from this thread:

On 23/04/2010 One day Hero wrote:
>On 21/04/2010 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>>>
>>Why so defeatist ODH?
>>Why not celebrate climbing at every opportunity?
>>:)
>
>Well, I figure there are 200 people on this site who go climbing most
>weekends. If we all write up every single weekend there will be no room
>left on the internet for porn.
>
>I like celebrating climbing by going climbing, or reading GOOD trip reports
>like;
>
>1) Dave and Oli f---ing up their mate's ropes
>
>2) Your aid climbing intro w/e where novice aiders were encoraged to lead
>hard new routes resulting in massive groudfalls! WTF?!
>
>I don't want to read
>
> "Me and Bob and Barry went sport climbing to Shipley and Bob led the
>19 but started to shake at the first bolt and he went right hand to the
>crimp but the real sequence goes left hand to the pocket so Shiela started
>singing "holy shit, you're gonna deck" by the Ramones but Bob got his foot
>on the smear and then Barry said he'd have a go at "Ram My Set" but it
>was 2 grades harder than his best lead ever which was in queensland when
>we discovered a new bouldering area under the big pineapple and spent two
>days developing new stuff by breaking flakes off and brushing the rock
>and then I did a V2 but it might be as hard as the red problem in St. Peter's
>which Jonno reckons is nearly as good as the crux on this route at point
>perp on the 5th of june when big beetles came round collecting money for
>clams left homeless by the tsunami......"
>
>Which is what 2/3 of trip reports end up being! I wasn't there, I don't
>know the people involved, I don't get your in-jokes. If it isn't piss funny
>or mega-epic or has some point of definition, its not for mass consumption
>so keep it to yourselves!
>