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mooch
Big Wall climber
The Immaculate Conception
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Topic Author's Original Post - May 18, 2009 - 12:10pm PT
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Do people lack creativity in which they gotta use route names already established or are they flat out genuinely lazy these days?
'Thief In The Night'.....used at 4 different climbing areas.
'Nosferatu'.....3 different area (all in Cali)
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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May 18, 2009 - 12:11pm PT
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Maybe they think they're more creative than they actually are.....
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MUR
climber
A little to the left of right
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May 18, 2009 - 12:19pm PT
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Where might I find the universal route name database, so I can cross reference all of the potential names floating around my head?
Anyway, there is nothing even slightly creative or original about naming a route after a movie, song, book, painting, ect. ect.
Rabid fly swimming in donkey jizz...that's original!
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Kindredlion
Big Wall climber
4hrs too far from YNP
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May 18, 2009 - 01:10pm PT
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.. there seems to be a 'Harding Route' like everywhere...
...and then i keep seeing another name.. something like 'beckey route' something like that..
yea whuts up with the lack of creative vision on the route names ?
sheesh..
Bump!
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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May 18, 2009 - 01:42pm PT
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Sheesh, it's crazy isn't it?
Must be at least 3 or 4 routes called "Snackin' with Oprah" out there! :)
Seriously though, an online route database would be quite helpful in double checking the originality factor. With SO many routes out there now, kinda like band names, URLs, etc. - it's increasing difficult to dream up something truly unique.
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Ksolem
Trad climber
Monrovia, California
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May 18, 2009 - 02:01pm PT
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Pretty safe bet there is only one "By Jupiter, There are Rings Around Uranus."
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NFB
Mountain climber
SLC UT
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May 18, 2009 - 03:14pm PT
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Bridalveil falls???
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Chiloe
Trad climber
Lee, NH
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May 18, 2009 - 03:41pm PT
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I copied a really cool route name from Eric Clapton once. Then years later, someone else
copied the same name for a route on Half Dome, and naturally I thought "How unoriginal!"
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k-man
Gym climber
SCruz
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May 18, 2009 - 05:19pm PT
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I thought long and hard about a route I named one time. Totally original, until I found out there were at least two other routes by that name, including one on the Diamond.
Still a good name, though.
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mooch
Big Wall climber
The Immaculate Conception
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Topic Author's Reply - May 18, 2009 - 05:29pm PT
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Must be at least 3 or 4 routes called "Snackin' with Oprah" out there! :)
There very well could be. But far less likely then compare to say route names like.....'Fill In The Blank' ;)
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Ed Bannister
Mountain climber
Riverside, CA
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May 18, 2009 - 05:29pm PT
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please....
most common: The Trough
most common easy long route ascencionist: Fred Becky
Black Tide or Stichter Quits?
I think that was John Long and Phil Warrender, excellent.
Rob Slater, Randy leavitt, and an unnamed third party climbed a block in the wonderland dead cold still snow on the ground winter day, called the thing "The Fridge"
third party wanted to call the left and right routes Bill and Perry, Randy reported left and right, guess it would have been too much fun.
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CF
climber
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May 18, 2009 - 05:34pm PT
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Meltdown
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survival
Big Wall climber
A Token of My Extreme
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May 18, 2009 - 05:47pm PT
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We did a difficult mud nail-up which my buddy Scott dubbed
"Zortex Thrux"
Never seen that name used anywhere else.......
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Captain...or Skully
Social climber
North of the Owyhees
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May 18, 2009 - 06:14pm PT
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Now THAT'S originiality!
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TwistedCrank
climber
Ideeho-dee-do-dah-day
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May 18, 2009 - 07:23pm PT
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In western Colorado we used to get a kick out of naming mungy crap routes after classics in Eldo. This was fun for a couple of days but then we ran out of drugs.
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tiki-jer
Trad climber
fresno/clovis
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May 19, 2009 - 10:42am PT
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HA!! Mooch told me of a route named "Porn-Star Razor Stubble".
That is pretty creative. Especially when they shave little designs.
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Todd Gordon
Trad climber
Joshua Tree, Cal
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May 19, 2009 - 10:47am PT
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Farewell to Arms seems to be quite a popular name...........( I do believe there is only one Dingo Ate My Floater or Let's F*#k the Crackwhore.....two of my favorite route names.....)
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mooch
Big Wall climber
The Immaculate Conception
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Topic Author's Reply - May 19, 2009 - 12:55pm PT
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Tiki's alive!! Yeah!!
Nah, Ger.....that's a root we have YET to put up. Ideally a root that follows a "wadi" with small chickenheads on the outside. ;)
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