17 January 2015

Most popular 8A < in Albarracin have or are subject of being down graded

Some six years ago, I started to speculate that most of the hard core boulders in Albarracin had inflated grades simply based on all the quick personal best that were reported from the the beautiful place. Some weeks ago, Martin Mobråten wrote that in general all the grades in the topo is one grade to soft. The 8a database and the digital online topo, confirm Martin's personal thoughts. I think it is just good and natural that most do not want to bother with personal grades especially as they do not want to discredit friends. In order to report correct 8a news, maybe it is about time that 8a is allowed to comment grades based on facts like fast personal best. Some ten years ago, we did so frequently but we stopped due to hard criticism. However, in all the cases we gave the not so appreciated grade comments, the history shows we were right. Should we start commenting the grades when we are most certain that they are not correct or should we continue to sometimes publish not trustworthy news?
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