What was your first 5.14d X?

Sike! I can barely sit my way up a 5.11 on TR!

But I do think threads like this are sorta lame, and mainly excuses for people to spray. Spray on.

once upon a time I had a dream about contemplating the thoought of considering attempting .14d/x I woke up and decided against it. :)

Wher I come frum de calls it E11

How bout a thread called: "What was your first M15?" I think that could be just as entertaining.

Solo or Roped?

The Little Devil at Castlewood

This one time I was up in the Park, on Arrowhead or some thing, putting up a new IV route, and the 6th pitch was just wild. You start with a sustained 100 foot tips layback, into a mono-digit jam sequence, followed by an all points-off dyno into a wet chicken wing, all on a fixed copperhead equalized with a dull birdbeak. That was only 14d, R, though.

Andy Novak wrote:This one time I was up in the Park, on Arrowhead or some thing, putting up a new IV route, and the 6th pitch was just wild. You start with a sustained 100 foot tips layback, into a mono-digit jam sequence, followed by an all points-off dyno into a wet chicken wing, all on a fixed copperhead equalized with a dull birdbeak. That was only 14d, R, though.

This is even lamer than the other thread....

Taking a crap while porta-potty stemming to avoid the mountain of sheit in the over loaded 'Hueco Rock Ranch' porta-potty must have been at least 14d X. I even suffered from some gastrointestinal distress after visiting said shitter (it must have just been impossible to avoid the X factor!)
I recommend doing the 5.9R cactus squat shit instead... a much nicer experience.

Mine was called You're Gonna Die. It was a naked, barefoot, ropeless, onsight free-solo second ascent. FA unknown.

No 14d x's, but i have soloed 5.16. You have to climb up overhanging slopers over metal spikes on the ground. Classic.

metal spikes? Puss. I soloed 5.16b after dunking my hands in motor oil, and that was over a barbed wire grid stretched over a pit with an indestructible cyborg tiger at the bottom

AdamB wrote:metal spikes? Puss. I soloed 5.16b after dunking my hands in motor oil, and that was over a barbed wire grid stretched over a pit with an indestructible cyborg tiger at the bottom

I once climbed 150' of overhanging sheer glass. However, I put a bolt every 3 feet. Of course I didn't fall, so I'm not sure if bolt in glass will actually hold. Since I grid bolted it I would down grade it to only 5.4.

I established a line on a WI5 ice pillar in Colorado barehanded (no tools) using rock shoes. I grew my fingernails out for 2 years in preparation for the ascent. The crux was my fingernails getting in the way while placing my only ice screw in 192'. I'm not into rating climbs but I think it was 5.15x.

Sergio P wrote:I once climbed 150' of overhanging sheer glass. However, I put a bolt every 3 feet. Of course I didn't fall, so I'm not sure if bolt in glass will actually hold. Since I grid bolted it I would down grade it to only 5.4.

AdamB wrote:indestructible cyborg tiger

Well.....I once down climbed the nose route of El Cap. in socks and boxers on a cold windy day......thats got to count for something right?

Sadly, it was also my last. It is a good thing there is wireless internet access at this Starbucks in Purgatory.

Yesterday I climbed a 5.7b L twice...does that count?

jfox wrote:Yesterday I climbed a 5.7b L twice...does that count?