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But for those few of us who are attracted to a sentence that begins, "Then the Golden Arrow took off over the flatlands of the Midwest, highballing for Chicago, passing Crestline at 12:44, Fort Wayne at 2:02 and Valparaiso at 24.993:54," it is an essential book.
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The name may refer to the practice of serving drinks in tall glasses, on the dining cars of trains powered by steam locomotives, where the engine would get up to speed and the ball that showed boiler pressure was at its high level, known as "highballing". Alternatively, the name may have come from early railroad signals with raised globes meaning "clear track ahead".
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Highball bouldering is simply climbing high, difficult, long, and tall boulders. Using the same protection as standard bouldering, climbers venture up house-sized rocks that test not only their physical skill and strength but mental focus. Highballing, like most of climbing, is open to interpretation. Most climbers say anything above 15 feet is a highball and can range in height up to 35–40 feet where highball bouldering then turns into free soloing. Highball bouldering may have begun in 1961 when John Gill, without top-rope rehearsal, bouldered a steep face on a 37-foot (11 meter) granite spire called "The Thimble".>Ament, Pat (2002). Wizards of Rock: A History of Free Climbing in America, Wilderness Press Climber on the Thimble in the 1960sThe difficulty level of this ascent (V4/5 or 5.12a) was extraordinary for that time.Climbing Magazine, Millennium Special, March (2000) Gill's achievement initiated a wave of climbers making ascents of large boulders.
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