1 June 2009

How should we report super long traverses?

Some of the hardest grades boulders are in fact long roof challenges. 8a normally gives them an 8Aa grade indicating that they are in fact boulderroutes. In the Top-10 hardest boulders in the world, in the 8a yearbook 2009, we did not include them. Felipe Camargo has done the 45 move long Las 4 estaciones in the new cave Juncosa (close to Margalef), nice 6.27 minutes video on his blog, which was put up by Dani Andrada as an 8B+ boulder and Felipe suggests 8c+ route grading is more appropriate. Should 8a give the same priority while reporting traverses compared to reporting routes and boulders and should they be accounted for in the same way in the scorecard?
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