Double Digit Slab Highball just put up in West Virginia. INSANE

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Hey Guys! Sharing some stoke here. My good friend just put up an INSANE slab highball in West Virginia, near coopers rock. A few different people have said that it is between V10-V12. The holds are just ripples and razor thin little flakes. I'm honestly in awe of this line, especially considering the height and the poor landing area. Footage is wild AF.

That's all I've got. Wishing everyone happy 'sends!

Line is named "the ocean" which i think fits pretty well

Looks like anchors on top?  

zosowrote:

Looks like anchors on top?  

Anchors aren't for the line. I think they are to rap into the climbing area (haven't been there myself yet) They were placed where they are so no one could see them when hiking above is what I was told.

It was IN SANE bro

Looks like a gym route

Rahat Awrote:

Anchors aren't for the line. I think they are to rap into the climbing area (haven't been there myself yet) They were placed where they are so no one could see them when hiking above is what I was told.

Interesting perspective considering those anchors are located directly above the climb, not to mention their location doesn't seem very convenient for use as rap anchors. Regardless, rad looking line; love that Coopers Rock!

Rahat Awrote:

Anchors aren't for the line. 

V10 is news?

Using the arete at the top is cheating.

Jim Tittwrote:

V10 is news?

If it’s a ground-up highball with no cleaning or preview it may be. I think the OP has insinuated that there was no TR rehearsal, cleaning or preview? If that is the case, then yes, this is very impressive. 

Jim Tittwrote:

V10 is news?

I think so, V10 slabs don't seem to be very en vougue, at least in the USA. 

Rahat Awrote:

Raw Footage on Instagram

Hey Guys! Sharing some stoke here. My good friend just put up an INSANE slab highball in West Virginia, near coopers rock. A few different people have said that it is between V10-V12. The holds are just ripples and razor thin little flakes. I'm honestly in awe of this line, especially considering the height and the poor landing area. Footage is wild AF.

That's all I've got. Wishing everyone happy 'sends!

One time in Red Rock someone sent a new route, and put a "plaque" at the base of the route with the name and grade. Then someone else removed it, and kindly said, "Here's your plaque back, we don't do this here". And I thought that's cool that there's some place to do it and some place you're not supposed to.

So you'll notice every comment has basically *not* been "Sweet! Looks rad!"  

This is Mountain Project. This is not Instagram. 

We don't do this here. 

#respecttheethic#localsonly#everyoneismean#highballorsolo?#sprayedbutgotbacksplash#JimTitt?lol

Sweet! Looks rad!

Rpropswrote:

And I thought that's cool that there's some place to do it and some place you're not supposed to.

This is a place where anything goes.
Everyone is welcome to post videos of friends climbing, totally unknown people climbing, people whipping, goats climbing, youtube kittens, whatever.

amariuswrote:

This is a place where anything goes.
Everyone is welcome to post videos of friends climbing, totally unknown people climbing, people whipping, goats climbing, youtube kittens, whatever.

Feels like a bolted crack. Can vs should? I dunno. I feel like you post a route in an area. Then you're done.  If it becomes standard to post the route, make an insta post, have your friends pimp the insta post, self promote ad nauseum, we'll lose something.  

Edit: 

I think if anyone here knew how stoked I am about every single pitch I repeat, every one I fall off, and especially every new pitch I do, they would be very grateful that I don't start a thread for every one of those experiences.  You don't want to be my friends,  who sigh every time they see my name on caller ID, "Bro, I climbed the coolest thing today..." but every time you see a new forum post "Neo Classic 5.8 OW in RR...needs repeat"

Auden Alsop wrote:

Hey- this guy is excited about a friend climbing a cool, hard slab. I don’t think Rahat was trying to say it was ground up/without rope rehearsal, the guy himself seems pretty clear about having used a rope on it for practice, and honestly I’m consistently impressed by how preachy people will get about other people’s accomplishments and matters of personal satisfaction. This is a public forum and I appreciate someone literally just making a post sharing some stoke and a cool route instead of endless debates about politics or top rope solo setups. I am curious about the bolts and how they got there, my understanding is that they’re usually not allowed at Cooper’s? Nice line, looks cool and I would love to try it if I were still in MD.

The instastoke is great on instagram.

And that arete was definitely off and those are TR anchors not some kind of special access point.

Rpropswrote:

Feels like a bolted crack. Can vs should? I dunno. I feel like you post a route in an area. Then you're done.  If it becomes standard to post the route, make an insta post, have your friends pimp the insta post, self promote ad nauseum, we'll lose something.  

Maybe cut people a little slack during a pandemic? Most of my only socializing these days has been through either climbing outside or talking about climbing between those days outside. It's 2021, the internet is an established fact of life (and I hate it, as a 45 year old) and if sharing a hard send or a new route online to get a couple attaboys from friends/partners (I've been doing the latter) helps get someone through the pandemic, I don't see the harm. Hurting access by posting directions to a sensitive spot? Party foul. But this isn't that, from what I can tell (the weird flex about the bolts somehow not being an option used to TR this highball is a head-scratcher, but a different issue)

Rpropswrote:

I think if anyone here knew how stoked I am about every single pitch I repeat, every one I fall off, and especially every new pitch I do, they would be very grateful that I don't start a thread for every one of those experiences.

You want less rock climbing content and more red pointing sloth content? My brain is pretty much a garbage dump of dumb ideas and I can keep it flowing.

Princess Puppy Lovrwrote:

You want less rock climbing content and more red pointing sloth content? My brain is pretty much a garbage dump of dumb ideas and I can keep it flowing.

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