Route Classifications. Class 1. Walking on a flat, established trail. Class 2. Hiking a steep incline with the occasional use of hands. Class 3. Climbing a steep hillside with moderate exposure.

Getting to grips with grades. Grades can feel pretty mystifying if you're new climbing. If you've arrived at the wall, you'll probably have noticed an assortment of different numbers, letters and/or ...

Low-end Bouldering Grades V0. There are basically no gym-level V0s outside. Demarcated outdoor V0s are more akin to your average gym V2, but that doesn't mean that you can't find easy lines.

“It’s so obvious to me that the old routes are the hardest,” said pro climber Jonathan Siegrist, of Boulder, when I interviewed him for a recent Rock and Ice magazine article. Whe… ...

In fact, climbing grades are less qualitative, less systematic and less reliable than any yardstick in any other sport I can think of. We squabble, yell, ...

In addition to the class of the climb, most guides will also mention crux and grades. The crux is the basis for climbing ratings and some guidebooks will provide further emphasis on difficulty by ...

Grades can feel pretty mystifying if you're new climbing. If you've arrived at the wall, you'll probably have noticed an assortment of different numbers, letters and/or colours around the start of a ...