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Best Sport Route in the Red!?

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Fitz Fitzgerald · · Rogers, KY · Joined Dec 2010 · Points: 20

What is the all time best sport route, under 5.13(for the sake of us mere mortals ), in the Red and why does this, in your opinion, reign supreme?  Please, no slab routes, I am highly allergic to merely the mention of such a style of climbing.

Let the rants begin!

Fitz Fitzgerald · · Rogers, KY · Joined Dec 2010 · Points: 20
John Wilder wrote:

Funny- of all the routes I've done there, they're all so similar, I don't know that one REALLY stands out over the rest. 

Also, when someone points to a route in the Red and says "that's slab!" i look at them and say "i do not think that word means what you think it means." 

...think it means... nice, Princess Bride quote!

George Bracksieck · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Oct 2008 · Points: 3,393

Fuzzy Undercling

Matt Clay · · PNW · Joined Mar 2015 · Points: 1,032

Slabalito at Muir Valley

DrRockso RRG · · Red River Gorge, KY · Joined Sep 2013 · Points: 815

Mercy! The Huff!

Mike Bond · · Kentucky · Joined Aug 2009 · Points: 3,191

Witness the Citrus

Dylan Pike · · Knoxville, TN · Joined Sep 2013 · Points: 488

Crack Attack. The best jug haul of my life.

Fitz Fitzgerald · · Rogers, KY · Joined Dec 2010 · Points: 20

Slabalito...you're fired!

Ted Pinson · · Chicago, IL · Joined Jul 2014 · Points: 252

Bathtub Mary is pretty sweet.  One thing I’ll say is it has a little bit of everything...thin technical climbing in the start, pumpy endurance on the headwall, then overhanging jughaul at the finish.

Franck Vee · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Apr 2017 · Points: 260

Hakuna Matata I think @ Drive-By is insanely good. Closer to vertical than your average RRG climb. Nice. Long. Mercy The Huff is also insanely good. Both are 12a (or maybe b).

Juan Vargas · · Bakersfield, CA · Joined Apr 2014 · Points: 1,115

Of all the routes i've done i'd pick either Swedish Fish, Cell Block Six, or Amarillo Sunset.

Alexander Stathis · · Chattanooga, TN · Joined Jan 2016 · Points: 656
Swedish Fish.

Impressive, long, diversely featured, interesting and fun movement, no direct neighboring climbs. 
Brandon Ribblett · · The road · Joined Mar 2016 · Points: 80

amarillo sunset for sure, also oompa and loompa (10a/10c), and super best friends (12b) is AMAZING.

DrRockso RRG · · Red River Gorge, KY · Joined Sep 2013 · Points: 815

Nolan,  definitely in the running for the worst route in the gorge,  pre and post artificial hold.

Pnelson · · Unknown Hometown · Joined Jan 2015 · Points: 635

Twinkie.  Has both a slab and classic jughauling.

Dylan Pike · · Knoxville, TN · Joined Sep 2013 · Points: 488

Dave the Dude

Luca Keushguerian · · Yerevan, AM · Joined Jul 2011 · Points: 2,817

Prime Directive at Funk Rock. About as good as it gets!

Neil Bodner · · Columbus, OH · Joined Jul 2016 · Points: 146

Banshee and Prime Directive, but gotta say Jungle Beat is one of the most amazing climbs I've been on anywhere, gotta love the + grade

Lena chita · · OH · Joined Mar 2011 · Points: 1,667

Red has so many!

No Place Like Home is one of my favorites, but I hesitate to recommend it because it is not a typical RRG route, and I feel like the BEST for the area should also be representative of the typical climbing for the area.

So if we go with the best, but also typical, Mercy, the Huff! is hard to beat.

I agree with a lot of routes already mentioned...

Not Mentioned yet:
Gold Rush.
Forearm Follies
Centerfire
Bare Metal Teen
CoronerDead on Arrival
Singularity

Joseph DeGaetano · · Fayetteville, WV but curren… · Joined May 2008 · Points: 560

The Gift! 

Guideline #1: Don't be a jerk.

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