I've been bouldering in the Black Hills for about two years now and been lucky enough to solve my fair share a new boulder problems.
With a abundance of untapped and unmapped rock in the hills,
I was thinking it would be a good idea to write some of these problems
down for other climbers use. In order to make a guide book, one must know
where the boulders are and how hard each boulder is to climb ... and here in lies
problem. Pun! I, along with a select group of friends have created our own little
Madagascar of bouldering in the hills and do not know how to rate rocks based on
the conventional 5 or V scales. So I was thinking, why not make a new better
system. In creating a new rating scale, I first recognized the flaws in the other
scales:
1. All rocks are hard.
2. Not all rocks are delicious or fun to pet.
3. 5 and V are interchangeable if you are a Roman-American citizen.
So I, along with esteemed puppy and cookie expert, Chris Marshall have
developed a rating system that rates rocks not on how hard they are ( Chris points
out that by their nature, all rocks are hard ), but by how fun they are.
When I think of fun I immediately think of puppies and cookies, so this scale
uses puppies and cookies to rate rocks.
e.g. " Dude I know of this intense Russian Wolfhound - White Chocolate Raspberry
up on highway 44. You should check it out! "
So look out world, here it comes! The Marshall-Puppy-Cookie rating scale that is.
Above: Chris Marshall, Marshal -Puppy-Cookie Pioneer
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
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Yo Scott, I found a sweet Rhodesian Ridgeback Double Chocolate Chunk out by boulder hill. We should definitely check it out!
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