For Authors and Developers

Quantifying a Climb

What to record

Recording grade alone can be okay in limited contexts like a guidebook. Recording grade+scale+style guarantees a complete picture for the majority of technical climbs.

• Some styles have their own scales
• Some styles don't have an identifying scale (DWS, Sport, Trad are different but all share route grades)
• Some styles use multiple scales

More

Are you implementing a system to support climb grades? There are a few good articles by theCrag: Grades, Route Gear Styles, Grades and Grade Conversions, Tick Types. You can also see this site's why page.