T3 First Ascent Challenge

T3 First Ascent Challenge

The T3 First Ascent Challenge asks you to tackle as many routes at Open Climbing as you can!

To get started:

  • Stop byOpen Climbing
  • Send a route
  • Add your name to the FA sheet
  • Add a tally next to your name

At the end of T3, we'll count all the tallies and award prizes:

  • A $50 REI gift card to the person to the person who climbs the most routes
  • A $30 Sierra Trading Post gift card to the person who climbs the highest cumulative grade toproping
  • A bottle of FrictionLabs liquid chalk to the person who climbs the highest cumulative grade bouldering

How will you count cumulative grades?

Toprope Routes

  • 我们将分数cumulative grades by the number after the decimal point in the route's YDS grade
  • A 5.7 will be counted as 7; a 5.8 will be counted as 8, a 5.9 will be counted as 9; etc.
  • A + or - after the route's YDS grade will be counted as a positive or negative half-point
  • A 5.9+ will be counted as a 9.5; a 5.11- will be counted as a 10.5

Boulders (Traverses)

  • We will score boulders with the number associated with the boulder in the V-scale
  • A V2 will be counted as 2; a V3 will be counted as 3; etc.