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| Fred Spicker | Very Realistic | |
Voted 10/10 | Finally what I consider a well done realistic comparison of YDS and UIAA rock climbing difficulty grading. The numbers posted here correspond very well to what I have actually experienced climbing in both the (western) USA and Europe. Thanks for putting in the work (and for listening to my $.02 worth). Your next task is easier - USA "Grades" I, II, etc. correspond very will the European F, PD etc. Will you also include the German L,WS, etc.? | |
| Posted Feb 18, 2006 8:57 pm | ||
| mvs | thanks Fred | |
Hasn't voted | Right on, more like $.80 cents if the page is $1.00 :D. Okay I will find the German system too, though I hadn't heard of it. I'll work on that tomorrow afternoon - in the morning is a ski tour :)) | |
| Posted Feb 18, 2006 11:03 pm | ||
| Nelson | Another Source | |
Voted 10/10 | Great page. Here is another source you can leverage from. It includes a nice table with various other systems. It'a PDF file from the AAC: International Grade Comparison Chart | |
| Posted Feb 20, 2006 4:07 pm | ||
| mvs | Finally done | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks Nelson it looks like a good source! I finally finished the Alpine Grade section. Let's all go climb an ED4 now :-) | |
| Posted Mar 4, 2006 8:20 pm | ||
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| Sebastian Hamm | Re: Finally done | |
Hasn't voted | After ED follows ABO = "abominable" for example: Petit Dru - Harlin/Robbins-Route | |
| Posted Aug 15, 2007 2:30 pm | ||
| JScoles | Nice | |
Voted 10/10 | One of the best I have seen for a while. There was a realy good german one (in german of course and long out of print) which did much the same job | |
| Posted Apr 7, 2006 8:34 pm | ||
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| mvs | Re: Nice | |
Hasn't voted | Thank you! Hey, your profile is very interesting. I'll have to hit you up for some good climb ideas in the alps this summer. | |
| Posted Apr 11, 2006 7:29 am | ||
| WoundedKnee | Very helpful | |
Voted 10/10 | and well done. | |
| Posted Jul 14, 2006 12:13 pm | ||
| jordansahls | Wish I had seen this earlier! | |
Voted 10/10 | This is really helpful, I have always been able to understand the Yosemite decimal system, but the others were a bit of an enigma to me. This is a great reference page, thanks a lot! | |
| Posted Oct 2, 2006 9:03 pm | ||
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| mvs | Re: Wish I had seen this earlier! | |
Hasn't voted | Cool, glad it's been useful Jordan! | |
| Posted Oct 4, 2006 1:19 pm | ||
| Erik Beeler | Thanks for | |
Voted 10/10 | putting this up. Perhaps you could add the Water Ice (WI) and Alpine Ice(AI) grades here too? | |
| Posted Dec 20, 2006 6:10 pm | ||
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| mvs | Re: Thanks for | |
Hasn't voted | It's a good idea, I will do that when I return from vacation, thx! | |
| Posted Dec 21, 2006 5:00 am | ||
| Diego Sahagún | Grades II+ and III- | |
Hasn't voted | mvs, I've found here (http://www.theuiaa.org/guidebook_standards.html - left and below) that there is no grades II+ and III- for the UIAA. I think that you have included them in your table for comparing with the Yosemite grades but I thought I had to say you. Thanks | |
| Posted Aug 21, 2008 6:31 am | ||
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| mvs | Re: Grades II+ and III- | |
Hasn't voted | Nice, good site. I removed those two grades, especially since I had no comments for them anyway. Thx again, all the best! | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2008 7:47 am | ||
| gabriele | Real 3-point climbing | |
Voted 10/10 | for 2° UIAA - maybe better to explain that 3 point climbing means that one can move only one hand or one foot a time so : 3 fixed point climbing ... somebody intended it as "using" one hand :) | |
| Posted Aug 21, 2008 8:31 am | ||
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| mvs | Re: Real 3-point climbing | |
Hasn't voted | Thanks Gabriele, I added some explanatory text there. | |
| Posted Aug 22, 2008 7:46 am | ||
| Luciano136 | Great page! | |
Voted 10/10 | I look at some European mountains sometimes and always pull my hair out trying to figure out the difficulty :-). Kind of funny since I am from Europe but only know the US system. | |
| Posted Jun 5, 2009 6:25 pm | ||
| FabienenCordoba | The alpine grade explained | |
Hasn't voted | Hi everyone, You might be interested to know that contributors to camptocamp.org published an article explaining the alpine grade. I just translated it to english: http://www.camptocamp.org/articles/188413/en | |
| Posted Nov 8, 2009 6:46 am | ||
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