Potentially the first ever V13/8B, "Slapshot" was the hardest of Holloway's "big three" that included "Trice" and "Meathook". Holloway never graded the problem and it has yet to have seen a documented second ascent at the time of this writing. There is speculation that crux holds may have broken off or polished in the nearly fifty years since the first ascent
1 successful ascent recorded.
| Climber | Style | Ascent Date | Suggested Grade | |
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| Jim Holloway | Boulder | worked | 1977 | ||
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Jim Holloway in a 2007 interview with Andy Mann: "Well, Slapshot was a pretty significant problem for me. I specifically hiked up Dinosaur Mountain to work on Slapshot a number of times for about a year in 1976-77. I remember that the holds are very marginal; if you glued a quarter on the rock, it would be a good hold! I remember John Sherman pulled off a loose flake at the start and glued it back on. I sometimes wonder if it was put on upside down, because the hold is about twice the size as I remember it being! The beat is; pulling up, and lunging all at the same time for a little seam near the top. The takeoff point is critical, so that you don’t lunge out instead of up. I took a few rocky downhill rides from missing that move." |
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