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Title: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: Adam Lincoln on July 31, 2008, 12:34:54 am: http://davemacleod.blogspot.com/ (http://davemacleod.blogspot.com/)

Stonking effort, all the training made it all the more satisfying!
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: Falling Down on July 31, 2008, 01:36:04 am: Wow.. that is amazing. Really stunning effort. :great:
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: hongkongstuey on July 31, 2008, 06:28:46 am: i think it was the weight saved by shaving off the hair that made the difference...
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: SA Chris on July 31, 2008, 08:04:20 am: Maybe you should try that Stu?

Hang on.....
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: Jaspersharpe on July 31, 2008, 08:19:47 am: Amazing. :bow:

I posted before about this project scaring the shit out of me but it seems he did his usual trick and broke it down into it's component parts until he was certain there was no chance of failure. And then pissed it. I bet they are fuming on Cocktalk that there's no grade to argue about.
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: Fiend on July 31, 2008, 08:51:10 am: E12 OMGOMG ::)

Well done etc etc
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: GCW on July 31, 2008, 08:52:51 am: Quote from: Jaspersharpe on July 31, 2008, 08:19:47 am
I bet they are fuming on Cocktalk that there's no grade to argue about.

Nah, they'll just debate about what grade it should be. And if it's harder that Indian Face.

And well done Dave, again.
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: slackline on July 31, 2008, 09:07:09 am: Stonking effort :bow:
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: Tommy G on July 31, 2008, 10:42:21 am: This is an amazing achievement!
I hope this great effort is not overshadowed by a big debate on the grade of the thing!
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: Three Nine on July 31, 2008, 01:07:45 pm: the gayest thing about the grade discussion which is in full swing on cocktalk is that nobody has commented (yet) on the surely more controversial FOUR STARS he's given it. I thought that was only Great Western? :-\
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: SA Chris on July 31, 2008, 01:10:59 pm: 4 star routes do appear (infrequently) in SMC guides.
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: dave on July 31, 2008, 01:19:44 pm: 4 stars is a bit like.....
(http://www.collider.com/uploads/imageGallery/Spinal_Tap/spinal_tap_but_it_goes_to_eleven.jpg)
it just makes all the 1, 2 and 3* routes in scotland and yorkshire just that bit shitter than everywhere else.
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: DaveC on July 31, 2008, 01:20:56 pm: There is one thing more certain than a crap grade debate on UKC and that is that someone here will start whining about the crap grade debate on UKC!

Anyway, well done Dave Mac!
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: Resonate on July 31, 2008, 01:40:39 pm: Quote from: Tommy G on July 31, 2008, 10:42:21 am

This is an amazing achievement!
I hope this great effort is not overshadowed by a big debate on the grade of the thing!

HAHAHHAHAhahahaha
so naive
Have you not read this forum?
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: Tommy G on July 31, 2008, 02:02:35 pm: Resonate: HAHAHHAHAhahahaha
so naive
Have you not read this forum?

Well we can always live in hope can't we!
I know it will be a big talking point but come on guy's lets not let in take the focus!

Maybe I just live in a fantasy land where everyone claims E15 and no one says anything other than 'Good effort'.
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: T_B on July 31, 2008, 02:11:11 pm: Quote from: DaveC on July 31, 2008, 01:20:56 pm
There is one thing more certain than a crap grade debate on UKC and that is that someone here will start whining about the crap grade debate on UKC!

Anyway, well done Dave Mac!

LOL.

http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/info/search.php?forum=0&dates=0&name=seagull&topic=&body= (http://www.ukclimbing.com/forums/info/search.php?forum=0&dates=0&name=seagull&topic=&body=)

:guilty:
Title: Re: Dave Mac Completes Echo Wall Proj
Post by: T_B on July 31, 2008, 02:13:19 pm: Great effort by Dave Mac BTW. Shows how far behind sport climbing, trad head pointing has been in the last 10-15 years since the era of JD's overblown E10s (which turned out to be F8a/8a+s with not too bad gear in some cases)...