A bit late perhaps, but interesting never the less, Francis Hélias has repeated J-P Bouvier´s 8c traverse Fou Rire in Fontainebleau. If the traverse was to be graded as a boulder it would probably be given 8B. To make things easier in the future, this is what we suggest. Traverse grading – Unneccessary and Illogical






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