[r-man]

Following the links from http://boulderingireland.blogspot.com/2012/01/old-article-nine-of-best-unclimbed.html

FA of John's Problem, Wow Prow boulder


Working the unclimbed Wow Prow


Working the unclimbed Dice Rib


Joker

[Robsons]

Except for the shit talking on 8a, it's good to come back and look at the pic/vids on this thread every now and again!!! Legend

[r-man]

Just stumbled on a couple that aren't in this thread, then googled and found some more...

Hubble 8c+ (bigger version of the small one on page 1)


Isla de Encanta 8B


Aeons 8A


Beauty of Being Numb 7B


"John on 'Replicant' V14 project"


And I'm reposting this one, because it got lost in the waffle of page 2.

[biscuit]

He is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.

[douglas]

What has G done in the Cave? He must have visited the Orme to climb on the Pill Box.

[GCW]

What has G done in the Cave? He must have visited the Orme to climb on the Pill Box.

Has his Pill Box problem had a repeat?

[Nibile]

Has his Pill Box problem had a repeat?

Years ago I was visiting The Orme with my fiancee of the moment, Marilyn Monroe. I bumped into Gaskin's problem by accident, but the line immediately attracted me. Unfortunately I was there for a sport climbing trip, I had onsighted The Indian Face the day before as a rest day after doing Hubble in a session, so I did not have any bouldering mat.
When I was thinking "This one will have to wait", who did I see walking up with a couple of pads? No less than Elvis Presley himself.
While The King was warming up - it took hom quite a while to change into climbing cloths, I quickly dispatched Johnny's problem.

[SA Chris]

Wow. I'm all shook up. Uh huh huh.

[Nibile]

 

[Doylo]

[neilpearsons]

Very god Mr Doylo

[JackAus]

I've come to the conclusion that Garth is our version of the G. :D

[fatneck]

Boss! Can't get the song out of my head!

[andy_e]

It moves me to tears every time I hear it.

[GCW]

The G will never be gone.

[Andy W]

Very good, postmodern homage, emotional yet ironical.

[Monolith]

Delightful as I find the song, the G is - I yearn to believe - still on his temporary fell running hiatus. Please be the case G 

[dave]

The G, the fucking G.

[abarro81]

You're all nuts. Nice singing though.

[Boredboy]

Sacrilegious genius

[rich d]

According to this http://www.thewarningsecondcoming.com we've not got too long before the G ( ) returns from the fell running wilderness.

Although There's more rules for his return than for the calling of he grit!

[mindfull]

Hope in the upcoming interview to see some statements about how he compares his grading to the probs in font an Frankenjura. I remember him mentioning that the sequence he used for gossip(8C???) (which was deemed as impossible by Bock) was much easier than "At the Heart of It All".
At least Malc has given his opionions (PlanetFear) about what he thought was the topend level of bouldering.
And the Hubble controvery (8c+ or 9a). These days the person who climbed A.D. and in the meantime while not repeating like all of the 9th grade routes, flash/onsight them and establishing a new grade is quite honest in his opinions. And he even did not succeed in one of the moves ....

You sandbagging Brittish punters!!!

[tomtom]

I think Hubble has been given 9a in the new/upcoming guide... fairly sure it was mentioned in the Ben Moon interview....

[mindfull]

I know ... about the mention of Hubble being 9a in the gradebook.

It's just that I wanna know the opinions of the top in difficulty climbing what they think of the more "commercial" graded problems.
Adam Ondra also mentioned and repeated Gioia, and gives credit to Core for 8C+.
In the meantime, in Belgium, we have a person (e.g. Muriel lately) who ticked 9a.

UK, Belgium, Italy are not doing much super hard numbers, but in the quality and most of history of the lines, were quit good I would think: Moon, Moffat, Smith, Gaskins, Sarkany, Micha Van Houd, Core, Manolo, Haston, ...

The least we can say is that most of these ascents were of a very awkward nature, but so high quality!