Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Climbing, But Were Afraid To Ask

[rydra_wong]

This is a post where you can ask all the questions you're always wanted to ask about climbing, whether you've already started or are just beginning to think about maybe possibly kind of giving this a try.

Or maybe you've been climbing for decades, and have always wondered about that one thing, and by now it would be OMG TOO EMBARASSING to admit you don't know.

No topics are off-limit, no questions too clueless, so let rip and get answers from demi-n00bs experienced climbers.

Comments

[pellucid]

As I posted the other day, my gym recently hosted the MEC Canadian Bouldering Championships, and they kept a couple of the problems from that up--including one of the men's problems that no one sent during the comp (though rumour has it that a couple people have sent it since--I haven't seen it). It's insane, with two different crazy dyno moves and impossible holds, and rather than rating it, they've marked it "VHARD!" But if I had to wager a guess, I'd say it's more than V11, though certainly not to the V14 range. Maybe a V12? It's definitely the hardest problem I've seen indoors, though.