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BMC Froggatt V3 graded list: a retrospective
January 28, 2012, 02:24:01 pm
A post on UKC where someone couldn't think of many good V3/6a+ problems on the eastern edges got me thinking on this and I thought it might help the next guide (and also me as I'm still working or targetting a lot of these). Any more views??

The V3 list from Froggatt (getting harder) with some comments:

The Eyes (the list has to start somewhere; 6a in PDB)
Between the Bars (quite easy but nice)
Nobody Knows (high rather than hard; 6b in PDB!)
Moai (V2 really IMHO)
Pig Trough (bit eliminate; The Nose in PBD)
Janus Start
Got Milk (the biz)
Pigeon Arete (good)
The Genie (hard and high; 6b in PDB)
Concave Crimper (only given 6a in PDB?)
Dirty Business (hard ; 6b+ in PDB)
Henry (reach dependant)
Trench Flakes (hard; 6b+ in PDB)
Slab Route (!!!??? spot on but old school F4)
A Beagle too Far (hard and reachy; 6b in PDB)
Original (brill and benchmark?)
Square Wall (easy for V3; 6a in PDB)
The Arete (easy but reachy; 6a in PDB)
Dark Rites
Sweet Arete (easy IMHO but 6a+ in FPD as well
Dolly (hard; 6b in PBD)
Roundabout (easy DWS to a tought exit)
Scrim Net (maybe easier, reach dependant)
Suicide Bummer
Final Thought
John Wilson (hard; 6b in PDB)
Oedipus Direct (hard and high; 6b+ in PBD)
The Dog's Hole (hard; 6b in PBD)
Cubist
Spine Left-hand (6b in PDB as Stepped Arete, overgraded as that?)
Chaste (super hard but well worth the visit; 6b+ in PDB... check out Mistral and Geek Passion above)
Egg Arete (lovely lovely lovely and easy when you get it)
The Chiseller (high)
Leggit (nice but maybe shouldn't be on the list above)
Toasted (hard?; 6b in PDB)
Soloman
Burnt Sienna (hard and high; 6b in PDB)
First Roof Left (hard; 6b in PDB?)
G- Thang (very hard; 6b+ in PDB)
Joe's Slab Arete (6b in PDB but I think this is easier than its position indicates...can't believe Ive climbed 6b that easily)
Whillans' direct (brutal but bechmark?)

Not on the list (maybe should have been there) any more???:

Rise of the Robots (high V2 or 6a in PDB)
Smoke ont' Watter start
Jelly Tot (given hard V2 but 6a+ in PDB)
Thomas the Tanked up Engine (failures feel several grades harder than some Ive done)
 
Some hard V2s:

Beagles About (scary highball given hard V2 only 5 in PDB???)
Diamond Slab Right (given hard V2 but harder?; 6b in PDB)
Harland Shuffle (given hard V2 and 6a in PDB)
Veale thing (given V2 but high enough that it feels V3; 6a in PDB)

 

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