15 April 2017

Crag added grades by topo authors

In some old school crag, a 6b can feel like a 7a and the locals are just laughing. Such info often misleads climbers to get a good experience. In fact, it just might ruin the whole day as there is no route to warm up on or actually try to onsight. On the other hand, it is very hard for a topo author to make drastic changes just to make the grades correspond to the new inflated modern grading system. One option is of course that the topo author can just write that the grades are one or even two or three grades harder than modern grading. When it comes to recording such routes, just feel free to give your personal grades which can help others avoid that bad experience. I am currently in South Tyrol and almost all the routes I have done, I have upgraded! ST is by the way one of the best climbing areas I have been to and an article about it is coming up soon.
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