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New Arapiles Select Guide 29-Mar-2006 At 3:05:33 PM MichaelOR

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Simey,
Congrats to you and Glenn for being willing to put in the massive amount of work required for a second edition. Are you both going senile? If you are really going mad, then I'd prefer another edition of the Grampians Select Guide. This task would be much tougher, given the development that has been occuring since your first two editions. It would require a big rewrite and edit. But the bonus would be going to all of these new areas and climbing some great routes. Do you climb in your footy boots nowadays?

RE the Araps Guide:
If there are going to be boulder problems included, then I support using the standard V Grading system - for problems graded V1 and above. This caters for a range of potential boulderers..... including OS visitors.
For easier problems (all V0?), a two or three tier grade on these would help the many climbers who cannot boulder V1. Maybe, as has been suggested, E, M or H if you want 3 tiers. E and M if you want two levels. I prefer only the two levels as potential boulderers below V1 would then have an indication of which problems to attempt.
This would leave us with the open ended system: E, M, V1, V2 ......

Michael