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Climb Quality - how do you rate it? 12-Sep-2012 At 1:23:28 PM pmonks

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On 12/09/2012 rodw wrote:
>Or you could just turn up at a crag and climb what you think looks good
>and just have fun anyway.

I've thought about that too - but ditch both quality AND difficulty ratings at a particular crag. So the climbs would all be described as per usual (i.e. factually e.g. "Sexy Seppos from San Francisco - Start 3m left of tree. Hard moves to gain crack then good fisting to climactic finish."), but without grades or stars.

Given what I said over here I'd be interested in seeing whether rocking up and just trying whatever looked good and achievable, without knowing a grade, would help get over the psychological block that grades impose. Maybe that's one of the unique attractions of doing ground up first ascents?