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What is a V10?

Outdoors in Aus. on the Ewbank freeclimbing scale, the blade line to Federation Peak is an easy (albeit highly exposed) 17 [1], whereas Cape Raoul poles [2] rate about a 22.

[1] https://zenandtheartofclimbing.com/50-classic-climbs-austral...

[2] https://zenandtheartofclimbing.com/50-classic-climbs-austral...

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It’s hard to compare v scale to aus scale and I’m definitely not very familiar, but googling says that v10 is roughly equal to 31 on the aus scale. Of course bouldering is also typically 5m tall or less, and it’s very hard to compare boulders to routes. I think the equivalent font grade is 7c+

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