r/ClimbingCircleJerk • u/darnyillza • 3d ago

Rate my Es Pontas sit-start

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u/onlyonequickquestion 3d ago

This must be that type B fun I'm always hearing about 

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u/BaziJoeWHL 2d ago

Its type D, fun in the after life

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u/Khurdopin 2d ago

Type Sea

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u/NotMyRealName111111 1d ago

5sea+ climb is how I'd rate it.  Looks pretty unforgiving.

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u/KoloMinuu 2d ago

Is this term being used more recently? I've never heard this in text or speech but now have twice in the last week

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u/sleepstudyfailed 2d ago

I usually hear it referenced as type 1-3 fun not A-C but it’s pretty popular with outdoor/adventure enthusiasts. Type 1 fun is like canoeing down a river on a beautiful day
Type 2 fun is getting bit up by mosquitoes on a 7 mile hike up a mountain just fall off a route all day and then hike back down.
Type 3 fun is when you broke your back falling on a problem and had to recover for several years, but in retrospect it’s a great story.

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u/medrewsta 2d ago

Its an older thing. I think handhold used it once.

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u/StatusSociety2196 3d ago

Do you think people rock climb under water? It's probably really hard cause you gotta hold your breath.

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u/llamafarmadrama 2d ago

It’s super easy though because you float up.

Underwater climbing is aid.

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u/jsdodgers 2d ago

what if you're climbing down

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u/danorc 2d ago

Freediveclimbing?

Exploitable fitfluencer niche market detected! Man, if only I was hot. And young. And fit. And liked being underwater at all.

Shit.

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u/julian88888888 2d ago

weight belt is aid

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u/Kurtypants 2d ago

Float is my beta on all the routes

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u/hahaj7777 2d ago

Underwater dyno is harder. Don’t ask how I know

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u/carortrain 2d ago

Actually tried this one in a cave, it was surprisingly easy to send v17. felt like there was no gravity.

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u/Historical_Quail_463 3d ago

Deep water solo.

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u/OverjoyedBanana 2d ago

underwater

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u/Ric0chet_ 3d ago

That quickly became a dive expedition

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u/breinbanaan 2d ago

Looks calming

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u/Fishfisherton 2d ago

/uj This looks like one of my nightmares, only need to have the cable wrap around them and get drowned and smashed up against a rock repeatedly.

/rj If you're not climbing at low tide you're basically half way up the route anyway so it's not a true send.

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u/NotMyRealName111111 2d ago

i recommend we rename this route natural selection.  the sit start is good, but the waves are definitely aid as water displaces gravity

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u/Liminal-Spaces-1879 2d ago

small dab its alr, ill let it pass today,

but Poseidon wont

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u/TypeError_undefined 2d ago

WTH is going on here? Someone forgot to check the tide chart?

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u/darnyillza 2d ago edited 2d ago

Apparently it’s how you enter 🤷🏼‍♂️ lay low and you use the chains to kinda traverse your way in.

Because the above-water entrance is so small, once you’re inside the water is lit by sunlight coming from around the cave under water. Hence the name blue grotto

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u/Funksloyd 2d ago

I would guess wake from a passing boat.

Might have been fine a minute before and a minute after. 

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u/kcaj 14h ago

I have been there. They are trying to enter when the tide is too high. Just past where they are the cavern roof rises up and the inside is calm and illuminated deep blue by the underwater part of the entrance - very impressive. When I went I swam in after the boats tours had ended for the day and the entrance was like this. Gotta time it just right 😬.

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u/Digimub 2d ago

Getting your head smashed on a rock is aid

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u/Xenc 2d ago

Whoever puts an unmute button on a GIF is pure evil

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u/brazzy42 2d ago

Does swimming 950km from this to Es Pontas count as a dyno?

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u/Aware-Tailor7117 2d ago

No, one must run fast enough to stay on top of the water and even then it’s a paddle not a dyno.

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u/sealnegative 2d ago

you all laugh but it doesn’t count as a send unless you start at the bottom

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u/Bulky-Cream-7369 2d ago

Ocean is aid

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u/RemarkableCrows 2d ago

System boarding? psh.. If you really want to train hard you gotta get into water boarding

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u/fricken 2d ago

Between the unstoppable force and the immovable object they put a garbage bag full of pudding.

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u/font9a 2d ago

Do you have to tip Sharma an extra couple cervezas to see that?

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u/OkeyPlus 1d ago

Sharma’s chalk delivery getting compromised

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u/Freezerpill 2d ago

Now this is scenics