That post is up there with Nige's on Ioan Doyle.
Until I read the second sentence I thought the first reference to Bugs was insects
YYFY to this thread Must say my favourite style is ala PaulB i.e. big days smashing out the route as fast and light as possible. However in recent years I've been fascinated by the idea of a hybrid style which doesn't adopt the slow grind of traditional bigwall but does involve a night or two and lots of hard pitches. Equipment seems to be catching up this style as well with ledges like the G7 offering a much more attractive packsize/weight. Places like VdM or Gran Paradiso look ideal for it. Anyone done a bit of this and can offer some beta on things to do/take or even better route recommendations for getting into the swing of it?
The pizza scale of wall remoteness goes from 0 to 17, where 1 means you can ab off and get pizza if you decide to bail (eg Verdon), and 17 means there's no pizza on the entire continent (eg Antarctica).The reason it got extended to 0 is that for some of the walls in Rio de Janeiro (the Corcovado wall is pretty meaty, 800m, minimum 7b obligatory and easiest free route is 8a+ I think), you can ab off and get pizza, alternatively you can top out, get a gourmet pizza at the summit while being mobbed by tourists taking selfies with you, then get a cable car back down and get all-you-can-eat pizza right outside the cable car station at the bottom.