[The Aaronator]

I would. Anyone else?

[Jim]

definately me but that would mean a vast amount of weight loss which isn't going to happen.
boo

[Serpico]

I'd like to, but I'm not happy about the amount of effort required, so I'm going to pass.

[JohnM]

I'd like to, but I wanted to climb 8b+ this year and put a load of effort (for me) into that and came close(ish) but still ultimately failed.  I can't maintain a high base level for long periods and seem to have to peak to do hard things.  My peak this year coincided with 5 sessions in a row of horrible humid conditions and getting midged off the crag.  My motivation was destroyed and now i'm not in good condition *sob*.  Therefore 8c is lot further away then I thought.  Maybe if I could move to Spain for 6 months.

[Robl]

I'de be happy to climb 8a.

[shark]

I would. Anyone else?

Me, me 

[Joepicalli]

Is this a trick question and if I say yes will my in box be flooded with offers to buy patent training programmes from Nigeria?

[chris_j_s]

I'd love to but as I'm struggling to do 7c currently it might be quite a long term ambition! 

[ShortRound]

I'd love to but as I'm struggling to do 7c currently it might be quite a long term ambition! 

I'd love to be able to climb 7c

[Doylo]

I'd like to, but I wanted to climb 8b+ this year and put a load of effort (for me) into that and came close(ish) but still ultimately failed.  I can't maintain a high base level for long periods and seem to have to peak to do hard things.  My peak this year coincided with 5 sessions in a row of horrible humid conditions and getting midged off the crag.  My motivation was destroyed and now i'm not in good condition *sob*.  Therefore 8c is lot further away then I thought.  Maybe if I could move to Spain for 6 months.

Not acceptable John, think of those prime conditions in September.  I'm stuck with Infanticide if i'm ever climbing well enough and i'm not sure its my bag

[nik at work]

Surely all halfway keen climbers would like to climb 8c (or 9a, or 9b or...)??
I would certainly like to, I'm not convinced I will though.

[GCW]

Either I'm not halfway keen, or your theory is guff.   

[nik at work]

Surely all halfway keen SPORT climbers would like to climb 8c (or 9a, or 9b or...)??
I would certainly like to, I'm not convinced I will though.

Is that better?

(although I imagine you'd quite like to climb 8c if you're honest, you just would like to do it with no input of effort)

[SA Chris]

Pink Anasazi.

[TobyD]

Yes.

Difficult if you restrict yourself to projecting in this country though, as a combination of conditions and limited choice of route style means that available options are not that many.

Although if Pickles' ascent of True North yesterday is anything to go by, we should all just MTFU and get on with it!

I wonder which the most 'doable' 8cs in the UK would be? for a) boulderers b) fit but weak-ies ?  Please noone start banging on about the grade of unjustified at this point! 

[Johnny Brown]

Judging by the percentage of 8as I've tried which I'd like to do, I'd say almost certainly not.

To rephrase the original question, do folk want to climb 8c, or to have climbed 8c?

[Doylo]

Going by the stats Make it Funky for boulderers. True North for stamjunkies. Pete and Caff thought Infanticide soft 8c so thats the Welsh option.  Neil Carson thought it could be 8c+ (different sequence maybe?)

[Doylo]

Judging by the percentage of 8as I've tried which I'd like to do, I'd say almost certainly not.

To rephrase the original question, do folk want to climb 8c, or to have climbed 8c?

You tried any outside of the peak JB?

[Johnny Brown]

No.

[Doylo]

That'll be why then, they're not the most inspiring

[shark]

To rephrase the original question, do folk want to climb 8c, or to have climbed 8c?

I think striving towards something is more enlivening than having already suceeded at it.

[TobyD]

That'll be why then, they're not the most inspiring

  agreed. Get yourself on The Bulge / Zoolook / The Thumb / The Cider Soak / (probably Statement but haven't been on it...) They are inspiring.

I think striving towards something is more enlivening than having already suceeded at it.

Now that is PHILOSOPHY; and a good point. I couldn't agree more.

[Neil F]

Not me.

I find projecting pretty unappealing, hence even at my fittest, a few years ago now, I never really went on a sport route that I didn't think I could do in a day (or perhaps a couple of visits).  The exception was a certain route at the Tor, which is the one 8a on my CV.

The other thing which makes climbing 8c so unappealing, is that my body tends to fall apart when I try hard moves (and the fact I last bouldered in 1983 probably doesn't help).

Nowadays, because I am running out of routes to do, I have started to try working some routes, but it definitely doesn't appeal to me in the same way on sighting does.

I consider myself as keen and ambitious a climber as the next person (albeit with less time, and rather less commitment), but climbing 8c is pretty much the antithesis of what climbing means to me.

Do you think I'm on the wrong board...? 

Neil

[Bonjoy]

Not me. The effort required would be a ridiculous waste of personal resources. I'm fairly certain I'd get more out of doing a lot of other fun stuff instead.

[rodma]

Not me. The effort required would be a ridiculous waste of personal resources. I'm fairly certain I'd get more out of doing a lot of other fun stuff instead.

Fun Stuff!

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