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V grades for Arapiles Select Guide 8-Mar-2008 At 4:58:49 PM Rat Man

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On 7/03/2008 simey wrote:

>From my understanding, Millers Tale takes the futuristic line up slopes
>left of Attack A Helpless Chicken (just L of easy weakness).
>
Firstly Simey, a big congrats to making an attempt on the grading, a tricky job, but the bouldering section will be so much better for it.

In the first Araps guide, you listed Millers Tale as the sit start to the middle of Around the World. (still stupid hard though) - I really like the look of the other line though.

Regarding Gradings- In my opinion (although I don't have the vast international experience of Marty.....)

Golden Slime - Hard V2 Definately - you could push it to easy V3 if you wanted to massage some egos.
Brain Death - have only done once and I'm no trench climber but - hard V3 borderline V4
3 moves to Glory - Stand Start, Easy V4. Sit start (I can remember showing you that one Simey) same grade.
Attack a helpless chicken - could be V6 - I find it harder but Marty has some secret footwork that supposedly makes it easier.

as I said, just my opinion - but grading is via consensus yeah??
Again, well done with the effort - and nice chart by the way.

Christian