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Matty Hong has made the 2nd ascent of Daniel Woods' White noise, ~8B+/C, at Wild Basin, Colorado.
According to Jamie Emerson who was there and caught the ascent on video, ...this long and strenuous problem, breaks down into a V14 [8B+] into a V10 [7C+].
Originally given 8C, Matty suggests it...

Read more at http://www.ukclimbing.com/news/item.php?id=67477

In reply to UKC News:

Finally, a formula! Too bad it's a rubbish one. A V12 into a V6 would become a V11? Don't think so Mister.

In reply to UKC News:

White noie?

come on UKC sort out yer one finger/head prodder typing!

In reply to Mr Mark Stephen Davies:

I will have to admit that I bottled the pedant post of 'you ARE UKC - you could actually try to bloody spell YOUR own post titles correctly'. I even thought of starting a new thread so as not to appear to be denigrating Matty Hong's success.

So thank you. These are supposed to be professionals.....

In reply to andyathome:


well you know me, just couldn't stop meself




Anyway, well done Matty.

In reply to UKC News: Son of the great Steve. Almost like cheating...

In reply to gritstoner:
The formula is only valid if |X-Y|<=4. I guess that if it doesn't match this condition then the grade is just the greater of the 2.
http://climbingczar.lt11.com/about-2/
I'm not saying that the formula can't be improved upon.

In reply to PeterJuggler:

Fair enough. I suppose if the difference is really big you might just call it highball Vx.

In reply to UKC News:

yer not so sure about a "formula" for assessing grades, and its hard to believe that adding a V10 to an existing V14 doesnt change the grade at all?!

Anyway Im not trying to stir a tedious grade debate. Actually I logged on to say that the original video of dan woods doing the line has been uploaded by dave graham et al. to island.io check it out!