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Hard Rock Climbing -- Need Partner 25-Mar-2013 At 1:08:22 PM simey

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On 24/03/2013 ratherbeclimbinv9 wrote:
>On 24/03/2013 Wendy wrote:
>>I've never found 25s on rock to be "comfortable" and that's after 20+ years of climbing 3-4 days a week on rock! I don't think it's from a lack of obsessive tendencies either.

Wendy, I don't think everyone should be measuring themselves against your physical abilities. There are a lot of people out there capable of being comfortable at climbing grade 25 on rock in a short space of time particularly in sport climbing situations. There are stacks of people blessed with better genetics and natural ability than you!

>Maybe if you bouldered more...! Anyone who wants to climb The Ogive should be bouldering V7 according to the extremely outdated and highly dubious 'boulder to route grade conversion' !

As dubious as the boulder to route grade conversion might be, that table implies that climbing grade 28 (The Ogive) could be compared in difficulty to bouldering V6 to V8. I think if Wendy spent anywhere near as much time bouldering as she did climbing routes and if she spent as much time and effort trying to find a V6 that suited her as she did a grade 28 (which she is yet to climb) then I'm guessing she would probably be in luck.

Maybe the conversion chart isn't so out of whack.