The problem of partial but important information
Posted: Wed Sep 15, 2010 4:17 pm
Hi everyone,
A few days ago a friend and I did a rock climb on a mountain in the Mieminger Kette. The peak is paradoxical: kind of obscure (it's not a crest peak), but contains a 15 pitch "pleasure" route by virtue of complete bolting. We climbed this route, but got lost halfway up, at a place where you are almost guaranteed to get lost. One problem is there are two topos out there, and they differ in this spot (we had the "worse" topo). Another is that the ground in that area is loose and easy. Finally, it has an odd ledge festooned with bolts that just confuses things more (there is another such unexplained ledge on the east face of this peak, very weird).
We finally got to the top, but did a fair bit of unprotected, "not fun" climbing. Here is the thing:
I want to share and disseminate this information. I think it's important and useful. I know if I had it before our trip, we'd have had a lot more fun. But I don't have enough information to create a whole mountain page. And the way things go, nobody else will for years, if ever, here on Summitpost.
I've got lots of tidbits like that. I just wish I had somewhere to PUT them. But the mountain page route just leads to despair for me, because I'm likely to make a poor page with my partial information, with intense detail in all the wrong places. The grain here is to say "good, complete information or not at all." I understand that. But I wish there was a way to accommodate a user like me. Looking around, the best place for this information is going to be local (german-language) forums. I'll certainly put it there. But I'm a Summitpost fan and wish for something more.
(I didn't include the mountain name only because it's beside the point and shouldn't become the focus of the thread).
A few days ago a friend and I did a rock climb on a mountain in the Mieminger Kette. The peak is paradoxical: kind of obscure (it's not a crest peak), but contains a 15 pitch "pleasure" route by virtue of complete bolting. We climbed this route, but got lost halfway up, at a place where you are almost guaranteed to get lost. One problem is there are two topos out there, and they differ in this spot (we had the "worse" topo). Another is that the ground in that area is loose and easy. Finally, it has an odd ledge festooned with bolts that just confuses things more (there is another such unexplained ledge on the east face of this peak, very weird).
We finally got to the top, but did a fair bit of unprotected, "not fun" climbing. Here is the thing:
I want to share and disseminate this information. I think it's important and useful. I know if I had it before our trip, we'd have had a lot more fun. But I don't have enough information to create a whole mountain page. And the way things go, nobody else will for years, if ever, here on Summitpost.
I've got lots of tidbits like that. I just wish I had somewhere to PUT them. But the mountain page route just leads to despair for me, because I'm likely to make a poor page with my partial information, with intense detail in all the wrong places. The grain here is to say "good, complete information or not at all." I understand that. But I wish there was a way to accommodate a user like me. Looking around, the best place for this information is going to be local (german-language) forums. I'll certainly put it there. But I'm a Summitpost fan and wish for something more.
(I didn't include the mountain name only because it's beside the point and shouldn't become the focus of the thread).