Marked Routes
One of the great things about climbing on an indoor climbing wall is
you can always make the climbs harder. In order to increase the difficulty of
climbs we have marked certain routes on the different faces of the wall. A
person climbing a marked route can only use the holds marked.
There are
two types of marking material, tape and fabric. Each route has an associated
card located at the bottom of the route. These cards contain the name of the
route, designer, sample of the marking material, difficulty rating and a
brief description of the climb. The difficulty rating is on a 5.x scale,
where x is between 4 and 14, (14 being the most difficult). The routes have
been rated by a consensus of climbers, this means a 5.10 climb might not be
equivalent to a 5.10 climb anywhere else but hopefully they are fairly accurate
. For more information on route rating
see Climbing
Dictionary Ratings and Grades(but be warned that this is an exterior site).
Routes so far:
- Crossing the Street 5.6 -- by Derek Sasaki-Scanlon '98 & Tim Gustafson '98
- Gnu's Paradise 5.7 -- by Ethan Gutmann '99
- Cat's Cradle 5.8 -- by Catherine Bolten '98
- Untitled 5.8 -- by Mike Darowish '98
- Honor Thy Wildebeast 5.9 -- by Ethan
- The Goat's Pants 5.9 -- by Tim
- Three Blind Mice 5.9 -- by Tim
- Vertical Dance 5.10 -- by Ethan
- Untitled 5.10 -- by Ben Chaffin '98
- C'est La Vie 5.10 -- by Tim
- Dik-Dik 5.10 -- by Brian Spitzer '96 & Dan Bolnick '96
Click for info on the lead climb.
Last edited February 23rd, 1996 by Derek Sasaki-Scanlon and Tim Gustafson.
Comments and/or Questions email:
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