[tomtom]

The problem is Das Pumpenhausen Testpiece is a terrible , terrible name for the best hard problem in Wales 

I was going to disagree with you - but Ysgo (from my only two visits) has some pretty cool names IIRC...

Its not that bad a name.... not like 'big roof' or something bland like that & it wont get mistaken for any other problem names there!

[Luke Owens]

The problem is Das Pumpenhausen Testpiece is a terrible , terrible name for the best hard problem in Wales 

It is a shocking name... Funnier if you shout it though, DAS PUMPENHAUSEN! 

[Doylo]

It would be fine for some nondescript new problem but this is an iconic line in these parts. We'll just have to suck it up I guess. Maybe it's a good job he didn't do the LpT proj 

[Fiend]

Doylo is right on the money here!

Roof right of Ogwen Jazz next?? (I forgot the bloody craglet name!)

[cheque]

Was raining today so he went to Parisellas and did 4 8as.

My girlfriend speaks german and said he was describing something he was climbing as "childishly easy". She thought this was quite an amusing contrast to the descriptions I was using. 

When the world's best climbers are teenagers, crap names for cutting edge climbs is always going to be a risk I suppose. Consider the sobering prospect of Ashima coming over and naming the Brandenburg Gate project "Justin Bieber wall".

[Luke Owens]

It would be fine for some nondescript new problem but this is an iconic line in these parts. We'll just have to suck it up I guess. Maybe it's a good job he didn't do the LpT proj 

Did he make it down to LPT? Is he still over here at the moment?

Doylo is right on the money here!

Roof right of Ogwen Jazz next?? (I forgot the bloody craglet name!)

Caseg Fraith

[petejh]

Disappointing conditions for a visit by one of the world's best climbers and a reminder, if anyone needs it, of how much effort it can take to find good conditions in this fucking country. It would have made more sense to come to N.Wales in August or September when at least there are more sport crag options, and a higher probability of good weather - I was walking underneath the Diamond on the day Megos bailed from a greasy LPT, it was properly mint conditions there in the afternoon sun.

I quite like that one of the hardest and most sought-after problems in Wales has a bollocks German name. Could always just re-name it to Megos Roof.

[shark]

I quite like that one of the hardest and most sought-after problems in Wales has a bollocks German name. Could always just re-name it to Megos Roof.

The power of the guidebook writer   

May have chosen the wrong emoticon 

[Doylo]

He did Statement and bailed. I'm sure it'll get a aka in the guide.

[Bonjoy]

Das Pumpenhausen sounds ok to me. It's all a bit Maginot Line/La Plafond changing names of thing put up by foreigners if you ask me. Having a name you're not happy with is the price you pay for a local not getting it done 

[a dense loner]

The guy who did it gave it a name, that's its name

[Doylo]

Pantons not actually going to change the name, he's not that autocratic. It is a shit name though

[SA Chris]

Das Pumpenhausen sounds ok to me. It's all a bit Maginot Line/La Plafond changing names of thing put up by foreigners if you ask me. Having a name you're not happy with is the price you pay for a local not getting it done 

Yup. I like the name, I think the name sounds like something someone woud say in a crap german pr0n film;
"Is't das un Pumpenhousen?"
"Ja Ja"
"UUGH UUGH, Icht Kommen!"

etc.

[Luke Owens]

Das Pumpenhausen sounds ok to me. It's all a bit Maginot Line/La Plafond changing names of thing put up by foreigners if you ask me. Having a name you're not happy with is the price you pay for a local not getting it done 

Yup. I like the name, I think the name sounds like something someone woud say in a crap german pr0n film;
"Is't das un Pumpenhousen?"
"Ja Ja"
"UUGH UUGH, Icht Kommen!"

etc.

This just get's funnier! 

Also sounds like the name of an early Schwarzenegger movie...

Arnold Schwarzenegger in... DAS PUMPENHAUSEN!

[Pantontino]

The guy who did it gave it a name, that's its name

Technically speaking you are correct, however it doesn't always work out like that. Anybody remember what Katz called the Caseg Groove sds? No, I didn't think so. (clue: it was a rubbish, embarassing name, which quickly faded from view)

I've done a suitably over-the-top write up to commemorate this historic moment in Welsh bouldering:

http://www.northwalesbouldering.com/newsitem.asp?nsid=664

[Greg C]

The problem is Das Pumpenhausen Testpiece is a terrible , terrible name for the best hard problem in Wales 

I agree. Rubbish.

[Luke Owens]

The guy who did it gave it a name, that's its name

Technically speaking you are correct, however it doesn't always work out like that. Anybody remember what Katz called the Caseg Groove sds? No, I didn't think so. (clue: it was a rubbish, embarassing name, which quickly faded from view)

I've done a suitably over-the-top write up to commemorate this historic moment in Welsh bouldering:

http://www.northwalesbouldering.com/newsitem.asp?nsid=664

Good write up Si!

[Wood FT]

I dont get it, what's in a name? The roof by any other name would still climb as sweet.

[petejh]

I quite like that one of the hardest and most sought-after problems in Wales has a bollocks German name. Could always just re-name it to Megos Roof.

The power of the guidebook writer   

May have chosen the wrong emoticon 

Hard to know who's the bigger control freak out of guidebook writers and climbing forum owners 

[andy popp]

I like it, its funny. It probably wouldn't be funny if it hadn't named by a German; but it was, so it is.

Mind you, I'm not local and have nothing 'invested' in the problem.

[SA Chris]

I didn't realise the "testpiece" on the end was part of the name. Now I agree it's shit.

I vote the "testpiece" bit at the end be struck from the record m'lud.

[andy popp]

The 'Testpiece' bit is the name's crowning glory.

[erm, sam]

I think he probably put Testpiece on the end in order to be sensitive to the idea that it was the Hardest problem in N Wales. In the same way that when one paths a problem that somebody has been trying for ages you are obliged to say "that was good" or "that was interesting" to validate the fact they are trying some thing worth trying even though you found it easy.

[andy popp]

I think its more likely he's just having a bit of a laugh.

[ianv]

Just be thankful he didn't follow the Ben Moon in France naming strategy and called it Dunkirk, British Expeditionary Force or Blitzkrieg.