12 May 2016

Rhapsody should get upgraded

The Rhapsody elimination was originally graded 8c+ but later it seems the four experienced trad climbers; Sonnie Trotter, Steve McClure, James Pearson and Jacopo Larcher have agreed on 8c/+ in order to fit to their other hard core trad routes. What is kind of strange is that all these five experienced trad climbers have Rhapsody as their 8c/+ personal trad best at the same time that all five have done a bolted 9a! Making this trad/sport comparison it seems even stranger that all five did their 9a much faster compared to the time they spent on Rhapsody. This should suggest that for the trad experts, the Rhapsody is as difficult as a 9a sport route. Jacopo has commented that the Rhapsody elimination is much harder than Mind Control, the most popular 8c+ in the world that some think is 8c.
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