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the shizzle => bouldering => beta - bouldering => Topic started by: ding dong on May 01, 2006, 08:19:47 pm
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has higgs direct start to elegy ever been repeated?
i see its top of the list of hard trad on 8a.nu!
one handed mantle by the look. :P
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yo,
Went to try this with dan once but got distracted on real block. Looks like it would go, although given the meatiness of higgs triceps at the time i'd say it's gonna be a move.
Anyway, dont go getting ideas of grit into your head...we got plans remember? ;)
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looks like one for meat hooks actually.
"hot and ready to play" i see in playgirl the special welsh edition.
not forgotten plans mate, i consider myself in training...!! :D
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Not repeated yet. And the rumour has it, that he lowered off from the base of the elegy flake, so a true ascent still awaits.
It's very hard.
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That just means it's a two pitch route - rope drag on elegy is bad enough as it is without your rope going to the back of the roof - and the second pitch had been climbed before. Obviously the answer is go out there and try it smarty pants, but in my minds eye I've never been able to work out why you don't put your heel on on the lip and rock on. Even campussing the pebbles sounds easier than the way the hig did it.