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What Can You Say About The Grade?

What Can You Say About The Grade?

Important to some and meaningless to others, climbing grades have long been a great source of debate to pass the time in between sessions. Recent years have seen an explosion of climbing related websites and blogs on the internet which has taken this debate to a new level. It’s easier than ever for people to share their opinions on the grades of climbs…especially ones they have no hope of ever doing (or even trying).

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News & Notes – 10/06/2009

News & Notes – 10/06/2009

News & Notes from Dave Graham, Tommy Caldwell, the Hubers, Adam Ondra and much more…

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Climbing Video:  Bernd Zangerl From Dirt Grows The Flowers (V15) 2nd Ascent

Climbing Video: Bernd Zangerl From Dirt Grows The Flowers (V15) 2nd Ascent

Video of Bernd Zangerl repeating Dave Graham’s From Dirt Grows The Flowers (V15)

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From Dirt Grows The Flowers (V15) Repeated

From Dirt Grows The Flowers (V15) Repeated

Another of Dave Graham’s longstanding unrepeated testpieces sees a 2nd ascent this week.

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Hard, Unrepeated American Boulders

8a recently posted an interesting article on really hard (5.14d and up) routes that haven’t been repeated despite having been established years ago. Most of the routes seem unrepeated as much for their obscurity as for their difficulty, but it is definitely an interesting idea for discussion. I imagine a list for unrepeated [...]

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Bit of News

Bit of News

Here is a bit of news for your Wednesday:

Paul Robinson has made the 4th ascent of Ode to the Modern Man (V14) at Mt. Evans after Woods, Landman and Jorgenson. This would be Paul’s 25th problem V13 or harder in just the past 365 days.
As noted yesterday, Ethan Pringle has repeated Realization and he [...]

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News & Notes – 6/25/2007

News & Notes – 6/25/2007

Finally back with it…somewhat…

Of course the big news while I was gone was Daniel Woods fulfilling another portion of my earlier predictions when he did the first ascent of the Green 45 Project at RMNP. He has called the problem Jade and suggested the grade of V15. Several cameras were rolling and you [...]

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