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Altered Ego
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Dec 9, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jul 2008
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For me, a real onsight only happens if I'm totally baked. If I'm hanging out in some stupid stance getting pumped trying to place some stupid nut cause I left the small cams on the ground only to make one more move to a huge jug and a rest after placing the stupid nut than I know I'm onsighting, and I'm totally baked.
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M Mobley
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Dec 10, 2013
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Bar Harbor, ME
· Joined Mar 2006
· Points: 911
MC Poopypants wrote:For me, a real onsight only happens if I'm totally baked. If I'm hanging out in some stupid stance getting pumped trying to place some stupid nut cause I left the small cams on the ground only to make one more move to a huge jug and a rest after placing the stupid nut than I know I'm onsighting, and I'm totally baked. I say its ALWAYS an onsight when fully cooked, even when youve done the route before
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Paul Ross
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Dec 10, 2013
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Keswick, Cumbria
· Joined Apr 2001
· Points: 22,236
Perhaps the only true on sight ground up is a first ascent ,more so a route with multi pitches on a unclimbed crag.
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UltimateClimber
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Dec 10, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
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It really depends on the kind of shoes you wear
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Brendan Blanchard
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Dec 10, 2013
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Boulder, CO
· Joined Oct 2010
· Points: 590
I'd like to add to the terminology being thrown around. Onsight Amnesia: When one onsights a route (definitions aside), then repeatedly falls and cannot repeat the route after.
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JCM
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Dec 10, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
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· Points: 115
MJMobes wrote: I say its ALWAYS an onsight when fully cooked, even when youve done the route before This is truth. For this reason, I propose a new term: the ganjasight. In a ganjasight, you have climbed or tried the route before, but then the sticky icky eliminated all memory of beta, leaving your addled brain to have to re-onsight the route.
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Matt N
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Dec 10, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
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Mark E Dixon wrote: I believe this is also called a 'deja vu'. But not many folks remember the term 'a vu' so even fewer will know 'deja vu'. Anyway, it's mostly rotpunkt for me. I call it 'senior onsight' - haven't had any of those yet, though.
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Buff Johnson
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Dec 10, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
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· Points: 1,145
farsight -- walk along the base, grade the climbs, and send them... off to the publisher
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Greg D
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Dec 10, 2013
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Here
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· Points: 883
JCM wrote: This is truth. For this reason, I propose a new term: the ganjasight. In a ganjasight, you have climbed or tried the route before, but then the sticky icky eliminated all memory of beta, leaving your addled brain to have to re-onsight the route. Very similar to the Alzheimer's Onsite. You climbed the route before but can't remember a damn thing about it. This actually a benefit. You get to climb routes over and over again and have it feel like the first time. This is when I sing that Foreigner song: Feels like the first time.... feels like the very first time...
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Altered Ego
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Dec 10, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
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Is it still a ganjasight if I climb up sober and places a few pieces then downclimb to the ground and smoke a bowl then send?
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Wiled Horse
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Dec 10, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
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· Points: 3,669
as long as you didn't stick-clip the first bolt!
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JCM
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Dec 10, 2013
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Unknown Hometown
· Joined Jun 2008
· Points: 115
I believe the correct response to any ganjasight debate is "Whatever brah, its cool"
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