23 March 2015

Most popular boulders subject of being down graded

It is just natural that the soft graded climbs become popular. On the other hand, it is actually mainly these ones that give crags bad grading reputations. To confirm this, Fontainebleau is not ranked Top-10 in the world calculating which areas have most 8A and harder popular boulders listed, even if it is only Magic Wood that have more 8A and harder recorded ascents. In comparison to other popular areas, in Fontainebleau the ascents are more evenly spread out, suggesting that there are very few "soft ones", giving it the hard grades reputation. Overall, in fact, almost all the highest ranked popular boulders in the world are subject of being down graded and that is also the case for the most popular in Fontainebleu. The highest popularity ranked boulder in Font is Gecko assis, #9 among 8B+ but beside that one, no other boulder in the forest make it into the Top-15 popularity ranking of the 7C+ to 8B+, respectively. Below are the numbers of 8B+ and 8C ascents in total and during the last year. 83 Fontainebleau 8 77 Magic Wood 17 74 Rocklands 7 62 Cresciano 7 46 Hueco Tanks 3
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