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Bouldering circuits at arapiles 8-Apr-2008 At 12:02:38 AM mankrambler

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On 7/04/2008 bomber pro wrote:

>The easy/medium/hard system is the one with colour coded circuits as used
>in France, but they use
>more than 3 colours, my idea was "quite different" because I was suggesting
>it as a model for
>Arapiles.

the important thing is that the problems selected for a circuit are all around the same level of difficulty. I don't think this was clear before, because I think Simey was suggesting putting all problems into one of these classes (correct me on that, if i'm wrong). With circuits, only the problems of about the right grade would go into the circuit.

>Hence my comment "this would keep everyone happy"
>It would require a detailed topo of the area and the colours flowing through
>the map to detail the circuit.
>And not paint on the boulders as some have mentioned, that's such a sad
>idea it ranks up there with
>GPS to find the boulders

They probably thought using a guide book for bouldering was sad a few years ago (some still do). Both GPS to locate areas and paint works well at Font. Even though most folks don't want it at Arapiles (myself included), there's no need not to consider it. Is the whole of Font sad?