General Climbing Discussion

Topic	Date	User
The Eyrie, Mt Boyce retrobolted! Badly...	21-Apr-2017 At 10:55:29 AM	BA
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On 20/04/2017 PThomson wrote: >In Ewbank's original proposal for the grading system that we use, he specified >that the grade WOULD encompass difficulty in placing the gear, quality >of gear, runouts, rock-quality, and the entire experience. Obviously that's >one aspect of it that never really took off. No he didn't. If there were difficulties in placing gear, runouts, poor rock etc they would be mentioned separately in the written description. Peoples lack of understanding (ignorance?) of Ewbanks sytem is the real reason it hasn't been properly implemented.

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