John-

I’m in the western suburbs, nowhere near those hills! And I don’t know why the gyms don’t rate their boulder problems on the V scale- I think maybe because the gyms don’t tape many of their problems?? It all seems to be ‘make it up as you go’ with a few taped problems. I’ve gotten a lot better at making up boulder problems for myself and others but I have no idea how hard I’m bouldering!! (Not very hard, I’d guess . . . .)