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Kim

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Rocket Man.

tim palmer

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To broadened it further: canada.  the egg in Squamish, utter quality.  soft 8a but awesome none the less and utterly pointless unless you do it from sitter

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Shit is a good problem, but for me the rock at the start spoils it a bit, as does the pile of sheep shit under it.

7 years since I finally succeeded on it and I havn`t been back since. So my memory is a bit hazy and quite possibly rose tinted. My mat probably still has remnants of the sheep excrement on it.

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Help the young (ss obviously)

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Hitchhikers s.s. at Kyloe is great imho as it feels like the correct line (rather than the cheating off-the-block start)

I also really like the pulling-your-backside-out-the-dirt first move on salle gosse s.s. It feels really burly

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The little (v4?) roof left of the Cowperstone is pointless from standing but from sit start offers a good problem.

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Breakfast at Burbage West. Awesome.

Oooh I've done that one, yes a good problem and a very natural sitter. Same with the little roof thing mentioned above.

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Dengue Fever V9, Koh Tao.

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Little Rascal, Burbage South

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Rocket Man.
She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It’s lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it’s gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I’m not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I’m a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone


Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it’s cold as hell
And there’s no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don’t understand
It’s just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man


And I think it’s gonna be a long long time...

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I think you should cut down on the nutmeg word.

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Make that 'as sung by Kate Bush'....

Rocket Man.
She packed my bags last night pre-flight
Zero hour nine a.m.
And I’m gonna be high as a kite by then
I miss the earth so much I miss my wife
It’s lonely out in space
On such a timeless flight

And I think it’s gonna be a long long time
Till touch down brings me round again to find
I’m not the man they think I am at home
Oh no no no I’m a rocket man
Rocket man burning out his fuse up here alone


Mars ain’t the kind of place to raise your kids
In fact it’s cold as hell
And there’s no one there to raise them if you did
And all this science I don’t understand
It’s just my job five days a week
A rocket man, a rocket man


And I think it’s gonna be a long long time...

...for added peculiarity.

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Gentle Jess V6 at Dinas Rock, South Wales is total quality as a sitter.  Well worth scoping out if your in the area.

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Higginson's Arm on the Roaches Upper Tier.
Stall sitter at Gib Torr (plus another vote for The Fin).
Tetris definitely.

In fact, I think anything that requires footwork off the mark, as opposed to keeping your feet on the start holds until your hands are on the standing start holds, if you know what I mean...

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Crescent arete ;)

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The arete just to the right of Deliverance at The Plantation. Lovely sit start.

The low roof where Zippy's traverse starts on the Business boulder.

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Wales?

Well at at Porth Ysgo there's Higginson's Scar, Popcorn Party, Jawbreaker, and Truth (ss)
Then there's Harvey Oswald (ss) - no I haven't done it - Braichmelyn Arete (reasonable warm up from standing, or fantastic bizarre problem from a sit start), King of Drunks (you'd never try it from standing, it's just too obvious), in fact North Wales is full of problems, which wouldn't be problems from standing.

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Electrical Storm at Burbage South - excellent problem in my opinion.

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in fact North Wales is full of problems, which wouldn't be problems from standing.

The Pinch and Emyr's Arete...

Oh yeah and the sitter to Perrin's Blind Crack is another Ysgo quality sit start that makes a great problem even better (now that the rusty axle has gone anyway).

 

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