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Re: [docburner] Poll: How much "harder" do you climb, sport vs trad.:
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cchas
Feb 14, 2008, 3:20 AM
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docburner wrote: I'm not sure if you guys got my point or not. It isn't that trad=crack, it is that if you collect all the routes in the world and label them as trad/sport and the skills required to do the cruxes as crack/non crack you would get a distribution such as: 45% sport/no crack 5% sport/crack 10% trad/no crack 40% trad/crack So in general to send trad climbs you need crack skills, if you don't have any crack climbing skills you are going to struggle much more to lead trad at an equivalent grade as sport because there probably aren't many climbs you can do that are trad and don't require crack skills.
An GO is correct, Indian Creek is really just sports climbing on gear since you can place gear almst at whim (which makes sports climbing more scarey then leading at IC), but there ar other areas where cracks can be as tricky to protect.
I've also heard the argument that the Gunks is sports climbing (in terms of movement skills) with gear.
In the end, who really cares. The terms are just semantics. Its all good fun anyways.
(This post was edited by cchas on Feb 14, 2008, 3:24 AM)
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Post edited by cchas
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