Trad grades - they are inexact, hard to pin down and cause folk lots of confusion. In this video I discuss how I grade trad routes and how I insulate myself from the controversies that often accompany them. I also offer a grade for Echo Wall on Ben Nevis.
An extract from the movie Echo Wall https://www.davemacleod.com/shop/echowall from 2008 where I free solo Darwin Dixit (8b+ but at the time graded 8c) as a bit of a training exercise to get my head around doing 8c on trad on my project, Echo Wall on Ben Nevis.
An extract from the movie Echo Wall, free soloing Darwin Dixit 8b+ in Margalef, as part of my training for Echo Wall. The full movie is still available in the shop to stream/download/DVD.