PSA: You didn't do an FA

With the pandemic releasing the hordes from gyms and scattering beginners to little-documented areas there have been a rash of V1 "first ascents" posted to Mountain Project in the past few weeks. Just a PSA, the undocumented choss pile you found has probably been climbed off and on for decades. The V-easy you did next to a classic V5 is probably a standard warmup even if no one has bothered listing it on the proj before. Putting your name, your friend's name, or the date in the FA box just makes you look like a noob. It's fine to give your discovery a creative name, but just leave the FA box blank.

I didn't onsight it either but it's not gonna stop me from ticking it that way

Bryce Adamson wrote: With the pandemic releasing the hordes from gyms and scattering beginners to little-documented areas there have been a rash of V1 "first ascents" posted to Mountain Project in the past few weeks. Just a PSA, the undocumented choss pile you found has probably been climbed off and on for decades. The V-easy you did next to a classic V5 is probably a standard warmup even if no one has bothered listing it on the proj before. Putting your name, your friend's name, or the date in the FA box just makes you look like a noob. It's fine to give your discovery a creative name, but just leave the FA box blank.

Preach!

Nobody cares either way

Sounds like someone snaked your V1 proj huh Bryce?

Who cares. Let them do them and if the FA cares, they can PM to make the change.

What if it diagonals across an existing line, uses no new holds, but then you call certain holds "off". Totally an FA right? 

“But bro.. there wasn’t even any chalk on it so it’s definitely an FA!!”

What if you *hypothetically* chipped the holds onto a blank/crumbling boulder?

What if someone ticks one of these boulders but they didn't actually send??

Pfft .. Every problem has been done before, but it hasn’t been done by you!

Gonna be famous bruh. Historical even!

CT has always had a bunch of folks FAing pebbles, its kinda a thing there.

M Mobes wrote: Gonna be famous bruh. Historical even!

CT has always had a bunch of folks FAing pebbles, its kinda a thing there.

Oh, it’s also a thing to tell them they didn’t FA, it’s choss, climbed decades ago, one star, totally soft. I believe you are familiar w this concept?

Meow sure would wrote:

Oh, it’s also a thing to tell them they didn’t FA, it’s choss, climbed decades ago, one star, totally soft. I believe you are familiar w this concept?

Keep up the traditions!

You got it! Thats what its all about! Its not just something to do on a day off from real climbing anymore, its a thang!

Locally were have gone to calling it FNA for first known accent.

I F wrote: Sounds like someone snaked your V1 proj huh Bryce?

Haha! Just saw the other forum post. I see what you did there

• slow clap

relax, it's a boulder. it's not like he claimed the cassin ridge or something.....

Jordan Pitts wrote: Them boulderers be FA hungry, especially here in Kansas. Come on bros, like no ones ever climbed mushroom rock. Its a state park, named "mushroom rock",lol. Same with rock city, come on people, do some research.

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/118632992/favorite-little-place Messaged the dude in a very polite manner and he still hasn't changed it yet, even after I showed him the pic of someone else doing it.

Does this qualify as "legendary drama" in the Kansas climbing scene?

Jordan Pitts wrote: Them boulderers be FA hungry, especially here in Kansas. Come on bros, like no ones ever climbed mushroom rock. Its a state park, named "mushroom rock",lol. Same with rock city, come on people, do some research.

https://www.mountainproject.com/route/118632992/favorite-little-place Messaged the dude in a very polite manner and he still hasn't changed it yet, even after I showed him the pic of someone else doing it.

Quick! Everyone rate it one star!