In reply to UKC News:
There is the 'danger' grade also given (sometimes) for US trad climbs?
If most trad climbs in a country are well-protected (e.g. long cracks by cams), then presumably French grades would fine, and you just make a note in the description (or the 'danger' grade of how runout/exposed the route is.
If the tendency is to bolt anything that cannot be well-protected, or to put a bolt in run-out hard sections, then again since everything is well-protected French grades are fine.
It may be our insistence on doing climbs with only one piece of gear 40% of the way up, with the crux at the top, is a peculiarly British thing? I don't know.
Post edited at 21:47