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 Fraser 22 Oct 2013
Question: how does a sport route make it into the top 5 trad ascents this week.... twice?!

I've climbed at Gorge du Blavet and don't remember trad routes there, but even so, why would they be given sport grades?
 AJM 22 Oct 2013
In reply to Fraser:

The French grade is probably one of the most popular trad grading systems in the world! Orco, Jonte, Piola routes all over the place, things in the picos, some stuff in the Dolomites.....
 Puppythedog 22 Oct 2013
In reply to Fraser: Maybe twice because two different climbers climbed it. Not sure what f7b looks like in really money, E6/e7?
 Stuart S 22 Oct 2013
In reply to Fraser:

Looking at the guide, as you say, it's a sport crag, so I suspect that it's more likely that the route, which has been recently added to the database, has been incorrectly entered as trad rather than sport.
 AJM 22 Oct 2013
In reply to puppythedog:

Knarly well protected E5 through to death on a stick E8 or something like that?

I suspect its probably in reality a sport route but that someone has tagged it wrong when logging their ascent of it.
 Puppythedog 22 Oct 2013
In reply to AJM: Ah, bit out of my league if trad, possible long term project if sport and well bolted. Either way unlikely I'll get on it.

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