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#50 Re: Caff's 100 best E5s
August 14, 2015, 06:32:55 pm
Nice one. There's only 97 though

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#51 Re: Caff's 100 best E5s
August 14, 2015, 06:37:36 pm
98

Can't find Cobalt Dream or Ziggurat on UKC DB. If anyone can - send me a link.

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#52 Re: Caff's 100 best E5s
August 14, 2015, 07:37:19 pm
37 for me but there's quite a few others I might have done and forgotten about or never really remembered the name in the first place!

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#53 Re: Caff's 100 best E5s
August 14, 2015, 08:25:26 pm
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Can't find Cobalt Dream or Ziggurat on UKC DB. If anyone can - send me a link.

Ziggurat - Carn Vellan, Cornwall?

Cobalt Dream - Google suggests it's a North Wales offwidth that appeared in one of the wideboyz vids, which might help narrow it down...

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#54 Re: Caff's 100 best E5s
August 14, 2015, 10:39:46 pm
:)

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#55 Re: Caff's 100 best E5s
August 17, 2015, 10:41:15 am
Warpath at E3 seems very harsh, certainly not the easiest of the ones I've done - Rimsky or Central Wall felt easier to me.
This. Finally able to join in the much-hyped warPATH debate, after being fooled enough by the general opinions that I even had it marked in my guide as "(proper E4)" to convince me to do it. bollOX. Definitely the hardest of the four soft Welsh E5s I've done recently, got completely boxed on the headwall and only just clipped the peg. The so-called "good but spaced incuts", errr right I was expecting a bold ladder of obvious crimps, rather than "very pumpy climbing on small spikes and awkward sidepulls".
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#56 Re: Caff's 100 best E5s
August 17, 2015, 10:43:26 am
What were the other soft E5s? Not The Knock, Track of the Cat and Baby Spice were they?

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#57 Re: Caff's 100 best E5s
August 17, 2015, 10:56:56 am
Edited it to say Welsh... Tentative Decisions / Killerkranky / Rimsky Korsakov.
It might be a shit summer but it's still well outside grit season  :rtfm:  :whip:
I did The Knock sans pads in 2007 - scary! But good. I would really like to do Track at some point.


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#58 Re: Caff's 100 best E5s
August 17, 2015, 11:24:50 am
Warpath at E3 seems very harsh, certainly not the easiest of the ones I've done - Rimsky or Central Wall felt easier to me.
This. Finally able to join in the much-hyped warPATH debate, after being fooled enough by the general opinions that I even had it marked in my guide as "(proper E4)" to convince me to do it. bollOX. Definitely the hardest of the four soft Welsh E5s I've done recently, got completely boxed on the headwall and only just clipped the peg. The so-called "good but spaced incuts", errr right I was expecting a bold ladder of obvious crimps, rather than "very pumpy climbing on small spikes and awkward sidepulls".

The headwalls's relatively piss if you've a background of 7a+ sport climbing on crimps, I think that's why it's considered soft these days.

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#59 Re: Caff's 100 best E5s
August 17, 2015, 11:32:31 am
Ah, I've got a background of 7a sport climbing on crimps, not quite enough!

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#60 Re: Caff's 100 best E5s
August 17, 2015, 11:50:26 am
Just seen your YYFUY post - impressive! I will avoid you for the time being in case you burn me off!

Was going to post something along the lines of Pete's post - if you are fit enough to not get pumped routes like Warpath suddenly feel really easy. We did Behemoth yesterday and that was the same. But if your fitness is lacking they'll shut you right down soon enough.

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#61 Re: Caff's 100 best E5s
August 17, 2015, 12:29:20 pm
S'okay, I'm not going near Peak Lime trad if I can help it ;). I fully admit Warpath is soft, but not E3-trolling soft. And Peak Lime isn't soft........

 

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