Reply To: Grading the climb…

I wondered if I should even comment on this, but anyway here goes. Every one of the small number of climbs I’ve put up has been a natural onsight, and only one of them have I repeated. Every grade I gave was subject to revision from further ascents from other people particularly the seconder who probably was in a better position to have a clearer think about it than me.

From a grading point of view does it matter if you onsite or redpoint? “All”? a redpoint means is you’ve practised the climb, but the degree of difficulty of the climb doesn’t vary. So maybe when grading from an onsite perspective you need to sit back, think about it and try and remove from your thoughts how much more difficult it was because you didn’t know what the hell was coming up next. So grading from a redpoint perspective doesn’t make the climb itself, harder or easier, but hopefully will produce a more accurate grade. Anyway aren’t all grades provisional and waiting for a consensus from further ascents, at least initially?

So I’d be happy to have open slather on West Australian grades, because some of them could probably be adjusted. (not that I can comment on the climbs you guys are talking about, because I don’t climb that hard)

Cheers all.