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#4050 Re: significant repeats
October 14, 2013, 10:33:17 pm
As seen on the other channel. Finlay Wild has broken his own Cuillin Ridge Traverse record and done the first sub 3 hour traverse. Phenomenal!

Isn't it amazing that The Nose has been done 40 minutes faster than the Cuillin Traverse?!

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#4051 Re: significant repeats
October 15, 2013, 11:24:14 pm
Ben Moon is back and crushing!

Quote from: Ben Moon's facebook
Red pointed Mecca Extension today, finally. 8c? maybe a soft one. Back to the main event on Thursday, Evolution.

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#4052 Re: significant repeats
October 16, 2013, 08:35:10 am
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Ben Moon is back and crushing!

Quote from: Ben Moon's facebook
Red pointed Mecca Extension today, finally. 8c? maybe a soft one. Back to the main event on Thursday, Evolution.

Excellent!

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#4054 Re: significant repeats
October 16, 2013, 10:09:28 am
I think Stevie Haston may just be my favorite person ever.

http://steviehaston.blogspot.fr/2013/10/ben-is-back-by-stevie-haston.html

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Ben Moon the English climber of the late 80s had a huge influence on rock climbing standards. In my opinion he could have climbed harder. Now after many years Ben is Back, he just red pointed 8c again after casting his Zimmer frame away.  In celebration of his comeback I reprint a little piece I wrote which prophetically credits Ben with the first 9a.

Ben Moon did the first ascent of Hubble in 1990, it was the first 9a in the world under the new Uefa grading system, I burnt him off once. He wasn’t pleased!
Ben Moon was eclipsed in many ways by Wolfgang Gullich, who was certainly not Bens equal in pure bouldering, or redpointing. This is the odd way history is,  its not an accurate thing, its easily subverted.
Now then a few months after Ben did Hubble, his best buddy Jerry Moffat was climbing well so he thought he would try Hubble. By some weird coincidence I was there with Kurt Albert, Wolfgang’s old training buddy. The World is indeed a small place full of odd coincidences. Anyway Jerry huffed and puffed but could not blow Hubble away, Kurt and I laughed, Jerry fumed and then went incandescent but all to no avail. Hubble is apparently a hard nut to crack. Kurt and I being out of our league decided to go arête climbing on the Grit instead, we did Archangel, Ulysses, Edge Lane and Great Arrete, we Talked about how routes can break you mentally, we had a great time. Kurt was a talented pianist and told me that certain bits of music broke him, a bit like redpointing, you know you can do them, but you cant!
Some years later in Salt Lake City I met up with a few strong people and we were all messing around. A certain Ben Moon became interested in picking up a weight attached to a needle, he was adamant that he could beat everybody, he was wrong. He couldn’t beat me. I burnt Ben Moon off.
I went out a few times to watch Ben and Mike Beck bouldering as a master class lesson. Mike Beck was really cranking at the time and it was very inspiring to watch him, very short, no excuses, and him and Ben enjoyed each others company. Anyway I moved Mats for them and brushed a few holds, and generally gawked.
At one boulder venue however I was lucky and did something and Ben looked at me shocked, and said ‘Stevie you could be good if you lost a bit of weight’, inside I laughed. “Condescending young Whippersnapper” I said, ‘I am the Champ at weight lifting with a needle and don’t forget it’..
After my tiny victory I was relegated to labouring for Ben and Mike, Ben would point at tree stumps and I would up root them like the trained Mule I am. Its horses for  courses, and bouldering is not weightlifting.


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#4055 Re: significant repeats
October 16, 2013, 03:21:37 pm
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Ben Moon is back and crushing!

Quote from: Ben Moon's facebook
Red pointed Mecca Extension today, finally. 8c? maybe a soft one. Back to the main event on Thursday, Evolution.

Excellent!

This made my day when I heard about it. Bit like Robbie Fowler coming back to Liverpool but Moon's still good!

Haston writes some great stuff when he's not whining, I'd read his book.

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#4056 Re: significant repeats
October 16, 2013, 03:24:50 pm
Amazing.
True hero.
Lycra and Lasers, I bet.

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#4057 Re: significant repeats
October 16, 2013, 05:29:57 pm
Ben Moon is back and crushing!

Quote from: Ben Moon's facebook
Red pointed Mecca Extension today, finally. 8c? maybe a soft one. Back to the main event on Thursday, Evolution.
:bounce:

So psyched!!! He's definitely one of my inspirations.

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#4058 Re: significant repeats
October 16, 2013, 06:44:04 pm
Once a wad always a wad....

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#4061 Re: significant repeats
October 22, 2013, 12:08:20 pm
Rope solo of Freerider  :bow:

Scared of spelling his name right?

Too lazy to copy and paste it.  I was going to do as is becoming more common just post the URL, but thought giving some information as to what the article was about would be useful, those who are interested in it it would read who it was when they clicked through.  Doesn't really matter (to me at least) who it was, its a bloody great effort.


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#4062 Re: significant repeats
October 22, 2013, 12:41:05 pm
Self-belayed with an unmodified GriGri, no less. Impressive, but slightly mad... Couldn't he have borrowed a Silent partner or a modified GriGri?

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#4063 Re: significant repeats
October 22, 2013, 01:23:50 pm
Mental.

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#4065 Re: significant repeats
October 22, 2013, 06:27:31 pm
as it "greasy on that pinch"?!

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#4066 Re: significant repeats
October 22, 2013, 07:43:08 pm
How tall is Dan and how tall is the G?

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#4067 Re: significant repeats
October 22, 2013, 08:13:31 pm
The G cannot be measured; he IS the measure.  You cannot run the rule over the ruler.

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#4068 Re: significant repeats
October 23, 2013, 01:04:18 pm
How tall is Dan and how tall is the G?
all that aside is that new knee bar/pad beta?

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#4069 Re: significant repeats
October 23, 2013, 01:44:15 pm
Yes.

Quote from: Beastmaker
FTA first tall ascent ;) Video for tall folks who can't get in the drop knee. New beta just helps us biggies fit in the position. Hard kneebar!

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#4070 Re: significant repeats
October 23, 2013, 01:45:49 pm
all that aside is that new knee bar/pad beta?

Reads as though it is on the Flickr page where its hosted.

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#4071 Re: significant repeats
October 23, 2013, 02:07:19 pm
Too slow old boy.

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#4072 Re: significant repeats
October 23, 2013, 02:41:44 pm
made that look easy!!!

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#4073 Re: significant repeats
October 24, 2013, 09:02:34 pm
Nathan Lee did Meshuga at Black rocks earlier today  :clap2:


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#4074 Re: significant repeats
October 24, 2013, 09:20:49 pm
ledge.

 

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