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jsaunders
Oct 8, 2010, 2:10 PM
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Just curious what the general opinion is. Is it considered a flash if you're reading about the route in the guidebook? Or do you still consider that an on-sight?
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Guran
Oct 8, 2010, 2:16 PM
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Actually merely knowing what route you climbed ruins the onsight. Come to think about it, you should not even be aware that you are climbing at all.
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kennoyce
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If you have to ask, it's probably a flash.
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spikeddem
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jsaunders wrote: Just curious what the general opinion is. Is it considered a flash if you're reading about the route in the guidebook? Or do you still consider that an on-sight?
IMO, you need to be more specific.
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Express
Oct 8, 2010, 4:47 PM
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Better if you're out climbing for the very first time and its a free solo. Then, if after finishing the route, you get approval by a committee of the ghosts of dead climbers, you can get your pure uranium onsight medallion.
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hafilax
Oct 8, 2010, 4:53 PM
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jsaunders wrote: Just curious what the general opinion is. Is it considered a flash if you're reading about the route in the guidebook? Or do you still consider that an on-sight?
The only onsight I consider having done involved climbing at a crag I had never been to before without the guidebook (or the relevant climbs memorized) and climbing a crack that looked doable. Couldn't even see the whole line or the anchor and just went for it.
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dynosore
Oct 8, 2010, 5:06 PM
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jsaunders wrote: Just curious what the general opinion is. Is it considered a flash if you're reading about the route in the guidebook? Or do you still consider that an on-sight?
Ah, the notorious "read on". Read on my man. Just don't onflash a route, that is soooo gumby.
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jsaunders
Oct 8, 2010, 6:34 PM
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I appreciate the feedback folks. I guess from the varied responses you could understand why someone might be confused on the difference. There's no ego in my game. I'll get just as much enjoyment finishing a 12c or a 5.3 with the right partner on belay.
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spikeddem
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jsaunders wrote: I appreciate the feedback folks. I guess from the varied responses you could understand why someone might be confused on the difference. There's no ego in my game. I'll get just as much enjoyment finishing a 12c or a 5.3 with the right partner on belay.
The greatest RC riddle has been solved!
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bustloose
Oct 8, 2010, 7:17 PM
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only here will you get confused on the difference between to very different events in climbing.
onsight - to climb the route, ground up, with no falls, with no prior knowledge of the route. reading the name and grade in the guidebook does not count as prior knowledge. if the description says "watch out for the sweet hidden undercling in the crux, it'll save your life", then some might argue you did not onsight.
flash - to climb the route, ground up, with no falls, with any and every piece of info you get your hands on, including people shouting move by move beta to you as you climb.
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giggly
Oct 8, 2010, 8:17 PM
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jsaunders wrote: I appreciate the feedback folks. I guess from the varied responses you could understand why someone might be confused on the difference. There's no ego in my game. I'll get just as much enjoyment finishing a 12c or a 5.3 with the right partner on belay.
Flash is generally a bouldering term.
If you flash a problem it means that you have climbed the boulder on your first try.
If you onsight a roped climb it means that you climbed to the top of the route on the first try with out falling.
If you red point a route then you have climb the route unsuccessfully and then climbed the route without falls.
You can work a route and then get a red point
If you climb the route first try without falling you get the onsight
If you climb the boulder first try you get the flash
there has been trends of using the term pink point but it is not universally accepted or known. It is just a trend where people either don't know what there talking about or they are trying to be cute and create some new word so that they can feel some sort of gratification.
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LostinMaine
Oct 8, 2010, 8:46 PM
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jsaunders wrote: Just curious what the general opinion is. Is it considered a flash if you're reading about the route in the guidebook? Or do you still consider that an on-sight?
That depends. Did you actually climb the route or simply read about it? I normally on-sight most of my literature, but I did burn my organic chemistry book to watch oxidation in real-time.
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xaniel2000
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In my mind, if you watch someone else climb the route before you try it, and then you climb it without falls, that's a flash. You saw someone else work the moves first, so you had beta that probably helped you send. Vice versa, if you climb it first, then you're onsighting, and your partner is the one who will potentially 'flash' the route. Things like chalky holds, tick marks, and guidebook descriptions reduce the purity of your onsight, but I'd still call it an onsight so long as it was your first ever attempt of the route and you'd never seen anyone else climb it.
That's just my way of keeping it simple. A gray area would be if you'd watched videos, read comments online, etc, not sure what to make of that, and also don't really give that much of sh&t to worry about it!
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hafilax
Oct 8, 2010, 9:30 PM
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robdotcalm wrote: jsaunders wrote: Just curious what the general opinion is. Is it considered a flash if you're reading about the route in the guidebook? Or do you still consider that an on-sight? Once you've read about the route, it becomes a flashlite. r.c
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giggly
Oct 8, 2010, 10:14 PM
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Flash=boulder problem climbed on first try without
falls
Onsight= rope climb lead onfirst try without falls
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Oct 9, 2010, 4:44 AM
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giggly wrote: Flash=boulder problem climbed on first try without falls Onsight= rope climb lead onfirst try without falls
Your half right.
What you consider an Onsight is actually a flash.
An onsight is what you said plus no prior knowledge except name and grade.
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giggly
Oct 9, 2010, 5:22 AM
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No.
I am not half right.
I am 100% rite.
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areyoumydude
Oct 9, 2010, 5:46 AM
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jsaunders wrote: I'll get just as much enjoyment finishing a 12c or a 5.3 with the right partner on belay.
You climb 5.3 with a partner?
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LostinMaine wrote: jsaunders wrote: Just curious what the general opinion is. Is it considered a flash if you're reading about the route in the guidebook? Or do you still consider that an on-sight? That depends. Did you actually climb the route or simply read about it? I normally on-sight most of my literature, but I did burn my organic chemistry book to watch oxidation in real-time.
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CliffDestructo
Oct 9, 2010, 11:53 PM
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Good grief
You can on sight or flash both climbs or problems
If you have not been on the problem or climb before and have no other beta except for where the climb or problem goes and no one is giving you running beta then it is a Onsight.
If you have beta or have watched someone on the route or problem then its a Flash
If you've been on it before it is neither
have fun and climb
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gosharks
Oct 10, 2010, 9:32 PM
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giggly wrote: Flash=boulder problem climbed on first try without falls Onsight= rope climb lead onfirst try without falls
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giggly
Oct 10, 2010, 9:39 PM
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Right
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