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How do you grade this? 21-May-2012 At 1:56:19 PM davidn

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On 21/05/2012 Estey wrote:
>Dave,
>
>I'd go with the Cruzers grading methodology. I can think of quite a few
>climbs where the moves of the deck are heaps harder than the rest of route
>and are not factored into the grade. This was quite common on older routes

Cheers Estey - it did sound like a good approach, and refreshing for its lack of criticism too!

>with undercut starts in the Bluies. Just allude to the difficulties in
>a cryptic route description and everyone will be happy.

Everyone except Damo, when he realises the bleeding obvious that I'm not likely to ever be inviting him out anywhere!

Tell you what though Damo, I'll bring a tape measure next time I go out cherry-picking, and let you know if I was wrong ;)

As M9 would say: heh, heh, heh