Thank goodness you three are here! At last we have someone who can make sense of the Rules on Naming Routes at the Lake!
Here are a few examples for your explication: Sometime Crack Sometime Direct
The End The End Direct The End of the End
Upper Diagonal Flake Route Angle of the Dangle
Lower Diagonal The Trick
Ironmongers Ironmongers Super Direct
Fantasy Weasels Ripped My Flesh
Chiaroscuro Direct (aka The H)
Callipigenous Callipigenous Direct
Flatus Flatus Direct Flatus Triple Direct
I could go on, but you get the idea! Does it feel like we're naming boulder problems and not Serious Routes? Decades ago John Gill observed that top-roping and bouldering are really the same climbing form, at least in a purely gymnastic sense. Consciously or not, all the top-roping we do around here has made its mark on how we look at and name these rocks. It's a little late to establish some other basis for naming routes. You would have to change how most people spend their time climbing in order to make your new view of the rocks stick.
The day we did the variation described above, we were having a lot of fun. As people often do, I thought I would give a name to our fun, and share it with others who might be interested. If you don't find it interesting or fun, you are welcome to ignore it. Or are you telling me that you would rather I just didn't share? What is the point of MountainProject, again?
I suppose that what set you three off might be the credit I gave to some friends for the "FRA ????" Many people feel that it is impossible to do anything new at the Lake, and many more feel that only the Lake's leading lights are capable of something new and hard. I would suggest that the fun you can create is limited by your imagination, and there are more people around here who enjoy exercising their imagination than you think.
You guys take your climbing a little too Seriously, I think.
Birthday Rocks
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