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Daniel Woods and Jimmy Webb have made the first and second ascents of The Nest, ~8C, at Red Rocks. Nevada.
For Jimmy this was his third 8C, while for Daniel it was his... umpteenth, or there about.
Taken from Instagram: Today was an incredible day. Daniel Woods and I were able to take down the...

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In reply to UKC News:

"they succeeded on their last try" funny how common it is that people succeed on their last attempt at a route/problem.

Nearly all of my onsights have been on my last attempt on a route

In reply to puppythedog:

To quote Homer Simpson

"It's always in the last place you look."

In reply to JimboWizbo:

In deed

In reply to UKC News:

it would probably be awesome or rad or something like that (maybe world record?), to see someone do a boulder on his second to last try...

In reply to UKC News:

what grade is 8c? english tech? sport? font?

In reply to The Pylon King:



Approx a ten move 8A into a low percentage 3 move 8B would be my guess.

In reply to The Pylon King:

Font 8C. That's why the C is in capitals, rather than 8c

In reply to GDes:

Right ok understand

capital = font, lower case = sport?

In reply to The Pylon King:

If you want to be super-pedantic, capitals = Font, lower case = French, often but not exclusively used to grade sport :P

In reply to UKC News:

Wot no hashtags?

In reply to The Pylon King:
Boulder problem = Font (or V), bolted route = sport

In reply to 1poundSOCKS:


so where do V grades come in then?

In reply to The Pylon King:

Maybe have a look there for a start
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grade_(climbing)

In reply to clement:

bugger that.

In reply to The Pylon King:


V grades are for use only by Americans, in America. Or Australians, in Australia. To understand V grades, it's best to convert them to font grades, as in this article.

If you spot a V anywhere else, it's probably just an abbreviation of "velocity". You may have seen "V2 5c" or "V3 6a" in the BMC guidebooks, but as most people know, these are not grades, but formulas used to calculate how fast you must move your limbs in order to reach the top of the boulder.

In reply to robin mueller:

He knows that He's quite well versed with grades and in fact is involved in guidebook production somewhere along the chain
I think he's yanking yo chain.

In reply to puppythedog:

Yes, I wasn't being entirely serious either.

V actually stands for vector.

In reply to robin mueller:

Does it? I didn't know that. Well I learn something new everyday, why Vector though?

In reply to puppythedog:

I completely understand British trad grading but seriously dont understand bouldering grades.

In reply to The Pylon King:

too bad... as bouldering grades (Sherman, Gill or 'Bleau as piss easy). Same goes for understanding Ewbanks, YDS, french, UIAA and different Scandinavian varieties.

The british system.. that's a completely different thing. I still don't get it.

In reply to HeMa:

One of my best mates is a radio DJ/record producer/record company owner in Helsinki