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Havachatwithhexy... 9-Mar-2005 At 1:49:18 PM Onsight

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I'm not really sure of your point Eddy.

Like I said...
>and that is why I reported Monique's ascent as "the first
>onsight of the entire Totem Pole" - as opposed to the "first onsight of
>the (original?) Free Route on the Totem Pole".
The way I reported that was 100% accurate. As we saw there's always room for people to make false assumptions and that example just shows how you can - and why it is worthwhile to - get facts straight in the first place. Do you not like that I subsequently pointed out that Deep Play could maybe be considered a variant of the Free Route?

Anyway, I've reported a lot of climbing achievements over the years, am sure I would have made mistakes, but it's usually not too hard to get things factually accurate.

Rapping in and seperately working the upper pitches of multi-pitch route is no longer "ground up". 1+1+1=3 (doesn't it?). The route had already be freed (arguably). But saying it's first continuous free ascent - now that's really significant - so why not mention that?