TODO: add a diagram for systems
Free Climbing
Aid Climbing
- traditional
- clean
Ice, Mixed, and Dry-Tooling
Mountaineering
stars
fluttering hearts
hb, vhb, shb (highball grades from the Coopers Rock guidebook)
- YDS Roman Numerals
- movie
edge cases
British adjectival & technical
ice: water-ice, mixed, ...
Disciplines
These are yet-broader categories than styles.
Climbing disciplines are mostly defined by two choices:
-
what are you climbing?
usually this comes down to some combination of three options:
- technical rock
- ice
- steep terrain and scrambling
- what are you using to climb it?
Disciplines are mostly straightforward, and rar
A few widely-practiced activities are omitted: Canyoneering is skipped, because it focuses on technical descent. Gym climbing isn't mentioned because it hasn't (yet) been the source of a grading scale. Other disciplines aren't mentioned because they're still building a following and haven't been treeted to large-scale attention.