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#4350 Re: significant repeats
February 26, 2014, 10:08:40 pm
And Robinson, Traversi not done it either... What about John Gaskins problems in the South Lakes. They're supposed to be really fucking hard!  :jab:

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#4351 Re: significant repeats
February 26, 2014, 10:27:28 pm
Jasper you've got a call...

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#4352 Re: significant repeats
February 26, 2014, 10:29:02 pm
He's Finnish...That was a gushing, emotion filled soul-baring post for a Finn.

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#4353 Re: significant repeats
February 26, 2014, 10:48:34 pm
The hardest problems in the world are almost certainly (beta changes aside) stuff in the US like Hypnotised Minds and The Ice Knife Sit, both of which are probably quite a bit harder than Gioia. 

I was going to mention Hynotized Minds here: in Colorado, near the road, not stupidly highball or morpho, seems to have a good length of season to try it; zero repeats. Dave Graham seems to have put a LOT of time into it and still not managed it.
Not to mention it's quite aesthetic, and quite good movement. I had the same thought.  In RMNP, no hike, so accessable regardless of season, etc.  It's been tried by all of the hardcore 'mericans, with no luck at all.   

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#4354 Re: significant repeats
February 27, 2014, 01:12:43 pm
For what it's worth, Carlo Traversi (obviously no stranger to hard boulders) also said that Hypnotized Minds is the hardest problem in the world that he's experienced. Apparently Jens has been riding Daniel Woods hard to upgrade it to 8C+.

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#4355 Re: significant repeats
February 27, 2014, 03:47:25 pm
Obviously, if Mr. Larsen thinks that, it is. Maybe someone should ask him some statistics on all his assumptions. He's definitely an expert ...  :popcorn:

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#4356 Re: significant repeats
February 27, 2014, 03:54:48 pm
For what it's worth, Carlo Traversi (obviously no stranger to hard boulders) also said that Hypnotized Minds is the hardest problem in the world that he's experienced. Apparently Jens has been riding Daniel Woods hard to upgrade it to 8C+.

Didn't Woods say it was the second hardest problem in the country??

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#4357 Re: significant repeats
February 27, 2014, 04:09:28 pm
Was that before The Game got brushed/broke/ a slightly different sequence was found?  He gave that 8C+ originally I think.

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#4358 Re: significant repeats
February 27, 2014, 04:25:09 pm
Woods also said that the Ice Knife Sit is the hardest problem he's done (this was after both Hypnotized Minds and The Game getting easier). Would be interesting to hear if the other guys who have tried both (I think Graham, Traversi, Robinson, maybe Webb?) feel the same way.

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#4359 Re: significant repeats
February 27, 2014, 04:45:56 pm
Woods also said that the Ice Knife Sit is the hardest problem he's done (this was after both Hypnotized Minds and The Game getting easier). Would be interesting to hear if the other guys who have tried both (I think Graham, Traversi, Robinson, maybe Webb?) feel the same way.

I hadn't heard that hypnotized has gotten any easier, but I think he did say he thought Ice knife sit was harder.  In his R&I interview he said he'd like to repeat a few more before comitting to the 8C+ grade, and listed Lucid Dreaming, Goia and Living Large.  1 down, I wonder what's next?  My guess is a summer trip back to SA :)

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#4360 Re: significant repeats
February 27, 2014, 05:39:45 pm
Of course just because Woods found Ice Knife harder than HM doesn't necessarily mean it's a harder problem. It'll all get sorted, the round the world crushfest can't go on forever they'll all have to start proper seiging soon! :greed:

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#4361 Re: significant repeats
February 27, 2014, 07:04:21 pm
Woods also said that the Ice Knife Sit is the hardest problem he's done (this was after both Hypnotized Minds and The Game getting easier). Would be interesting to hear if the other guys who have tried both (I think Graham, Traversi, Robinson, maybe Webb?) feel the same way.

I hadn't heard that hypnotized has gotten any easier, but I think he did say he thought Ice knife sit was harder.  In his R&I interview he said he'd like to repeat a few more before comitting to the 8C+ grade, and listed Lucid Dreaming, Goia and Living Large.  1 down, I wonder what's next?  My guess is a summer trip back to SA :)

Poor use of punctuation on my part, it should have been "after Hypnotized Minds, and after The Game getting easier", since that occurred after Woods established Hypnotized Minds (I'm pretty sure that's the correct sequence of events).

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#4362 Re: significant repeats
February 28, 2014, 12:42:46 pm
Tom Randall has just made the 3rd ascent of Captain Invincible at Burbage South, said to be 8b on gear and ironmongery :bow:


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#4363 Re: significant repeats
February 28, 2014, 12:48:42 pm
Very very very impressive. Probably the hardest route on grit. Laughable it only gets E8, a joke so bad its almost funny. Brilliant stuff Tom.  :clap2:

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#4364 Re: significant repeats
February 28, 2014, 01:09:22 pm
Superb! Well done Tom.  :clap2:

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#4365 Re: significant repeats
February 28, 2014, 01:10:19 pm
Brilliant stuff. Nice one Tom.

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#4366 Re: significant repeats
February 28, 2014, 01:19:06 pm
Great effort Tom  :bow:

Stu was looking at this a while back.

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#4367 Re: significant repeats
February 28, 2014, 01:31:49 pm
 Nice one!  :2thumbsup:

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#4368 Re: significant repeats
February 28, 2014, 01:43:10 pm
weel done tom

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#4369 Re: significant repeats
February 28, 2014, 02:25:09 pm
Brilliant effort Tom! 3rd ascent in 23 years says it all  :clap2:

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#4370 Re: significant repeats
February 28, 2014, 02:26:30 pm
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#4372 Re: significant repeats
February 28, 2014, 04:35:10 pm
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Wow! Would like to see a video!

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#4373 Re: significant repeats
February 28, 2014, 04:50:58 pm
Good stuff indeed. Who bagged the 2nd ascent out of interest?

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#4374 Re: significant repeats
February 28, 2014, 04:55:25 pm
Robin Barker I think?

 

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