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Footloose
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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Topic Author's Original Post - Nov 1, 2017 - 02:55pm PT
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Can someone remind me, I no longer remember.
Did Sharma ever red-point Dura Dura? (Or for that matter, Ondra?) Or in sport climbing is pink-pointing actually called red-pointing? I can't seem to find a definitive answer to this one.
I know these definitions are pretty clear in trad, at least they used to be, I think?, but I wonder about sport climbing. Thanks.
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caughtinside
Social climber
Oakland, CA
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he did it second, about a season after Adam.
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Trashman
Trad climber
SLC
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Oh, is it time for our annual “old trad climbers classify hard sport routes” thread again already?
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clinker
Trad climber
Santa Cruz, California
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It still hasn't been onsighted if that is what your shooting for.
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Mungeclimber
Trad climber
Nothing creative to say
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Those that send usually have photos, so the pink nature is self evident.
It's your sneaky FA stealing closest friends you got to hold to the fire! :)
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Footloose
Trad climber
Lake Tahoe
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Topic Author's Reply - Nov 2, 2017 - 07:55am PT
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Moose, c'mon, you know you liked it!
Regarding the post, apologies, I should've been clearer. Since posting though, I think I have it figured out. (Again? Some of us old farts forget things we once upon a time knew as the years roll on.) In trad, including single pitch "sporty" trad, the distinction between "red-pointing" and "pink-pointing" might be made more often and in some cases might have more significance. For me, for example.
I'm mostly trad, backcountry and gym. I'm not much of a sport climber. I guess in part I was just trying to keep up with the millenials and their way of talking their sport across its different versions.
Caughtinside, you might be able to relate - having sent Tombstone and One of These Days. I love both these routes. But currently I can only cleanly pink-point them. Red-pointing this year remained elusive. Maybe 2018!
If memory serves from yesterday, what motivated this first post was reading a few climber tick descriptions at MP. I cannot remember which route but "pinkpoint" and "redpoint" were mentioned.
Anyways, thanks all for the feedback. Happy climbing!!
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