From: Karl Baba Newsgroups: rec.climbing Subject: Re: valley 5.10 test-piece Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 16:51:40 -0800 In article <3e5561cb$1@eCompute.org>, Melissa wrote: > > After realizing I score a big fat ZERO on Russ' list, and, having thrutched > my way a couple of them seconding, realing that my score will be remaining > a big fat ZERO for a while to come... > > What are the gnarliest 5.9s? > > Melissa Gnarly 5.9s Stecke Salathe (any 5.9 pitch on it really) DNB (any 5.9 pitch pratically) NE Buttess of Higher Paradise Lost (needs rebolting, bold rather than Burly) Quicksilver (or is it Freewheelin falls into this category too) Lanclelot Absolutely Free Center (not that bad but solid) Reed's Direct Certainly qualifies Moby Dick Center (was rated 5.9 for years, 10a start hardly counts) Moby Dick Left (can't count out the chimneys) Little John Left (only 5.8, but tell me that after you lead it) It would be cheating for me to throw in the list of 5.9 terror off-widths that don't get done much, I'm sure somebody would) But Peter Pan and Cookie Center might be fair to suggest I'm an expert at torturing people on different levels of the Yosemite Crack Circuit. The key to torture is don't kill the victim all at once! Peace Karl -- Remove NOSPAM to email http://member.newsguy.com/~climbing/