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Rock vs Plastic 31-Oct-2009 At 9:40:33 AM JimboV10

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On 30/10/2009 dalai wrote:
>On 30/10/2009 IdratherbeclimbingM9 wrote:
>>I have never climbed in a gym, but do know that gym routes are (often?)
>>colour coded.
>>If they are graded in such a fashion then I am guessing that any given
>>colour, correlates to a range of grades.
>
>Routes use holds of the same colour M9, but it's only north of Mexico
>where the colour used denotes a grade range...

The Rock down in Geelong uses a colour system plus a grade chart...

Green is usually anything from 9-13
Blue 12-15/16
Yellow/Grey 15/16-21
Purple 22-24ish
Red 24-26ish

Occasionally a black or "swirl" appears for an uber probject... But we have a lot of feature on the walls so we just do lots of link ups or use eliminates...

Our walls max out at 12m (I think) so to get difficulty its usually smaller holds further apart on the steepest bit of wall we can find