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Shocked that the eatswood traverse hasn't been mentioned yet...

It would be interesting to make a Bottom 10 list. Boulders that are so lowball, shuffley, eliminate or forgettable, yet somehow have become a big deal - usually for their difficulty. The kind of problem that would make a non-climber despair. For example,

Malc's One Armer
eatswood traverse, there-and-back
That 7B traverse in the Cromlech where people park their cars
Something on Pinches Wall
Diesel Power
Etc etc

Jerry's traverse at cratcliffe? Finger mashing jug campusing

What about a worn traverse at the Plantation with confusing/arbitrary rules, next to far better lines and movement that see less attention, that somehow still inexplicably gets mobbed whenever there's a sunny weekend? Maybe with an arse-scraping extension into it for extra value?

That or Captain Hook

You're forgetting the "excellent" reverse mantle extension for an extra half grade

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 Split Traverse!!! ;D

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So with a few amendments:

Livin Large Shosholoza Sky
The HatchlingC Pandemonium
Midnight Lightning Thriller
Careless Torque
Meadowlark Lemon < Spectre
Misericorde < Partage
New Base Line / The Understanding
Ammagamma / Cherry Picking
Evilution / Mandala Haroun and the Sea of Stories is better than either... 
La Marie Rose / Horseradish / Salad Cream / Wading through condoms...

Some amendments from an SA perspective.. And maybe Sky, although I don't know how it climbs.

Lets see how far we can take it :)

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Maybe we should change this list to 'Problems that most of UKB think rank somewhere between "worth having a quick play on if you are in the area" and "undeniably world class"' and see if we can get to 10.

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So with a few amendments:

Livin Large Shosholoza Sky
The Hatchling Pandemonium
Midnight Lightning Thriller
Careless Torque
Meadowlark Lemon < Spectre
Misericorde < Partage
New Base Line / The Understanding
Ammagamma / Cherry Picking
Evilution / Mandala Haroun and the Sea of Stories is better than either... 
La Marie Rose / Horseradish / Salad Cream / Wading through condoms...

Some amendments from an SA perspective.. And maybe Sky, although I don't know how it climbs.

Lets see how far we can take it :)

Whoops - This is what it was supposed to look like....

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Shosholoza over Living Large????

What the.... Shosh is broken and it keeps breaking...... and I can't span between the holds so clearly should be removed from list.

Hah.

I take it you'd argue against El Corazon too, in that case?

 

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