How many routes do you guys and ladies usually climb in a day of climbing?

Assuming you are just out for a day of climbing at the crag, not spending the whole day projecting...


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The question is a little vague. If I'm up on the Diamond, I'm lucky to get in one route and if I'm out sport climbing there is typically some element of projecting involved.
Not sure exactly what you're looking for???

"How many routes do you guys and ladies usually climb in a day of climbing? Assuming you are just out for a day of climbing at the crag, not spending the whole day projecting."

Realseth: pretty sure it says climbing, not cragging. In this context crag refers to a climbing location, it's not a verb implying a style of climbing. So I may not know what he's asking but I'm not the one who's illiterate.

TheChen.... just going out for a day of cragging, I usually climb 6-8 sport routes. But if I'm "craggin on the Diamond" like Brent.... Oh wait, climbing on the Diamond isnt cragging.. Guess he didnt understand the question.

Seems like we usually will do about 5 trad routes in a day if we climb leisurely and take our time for lunch and such.

trad or sport I seem to only get about 5-6 routes in per session.

The longest days I have done have been 10-14 routes in rifle, some of them were TRs just to burn out at the end. Typically sport climbing 8-12 is more the norm. Gym climbing on 35 ft wall, 16-20 is what I will do when time allows. Lately its been like 1-3 routes per outside day due to a lack of motivated partners.

cragging only happens on the diamond when
you do 3 or more routes... ya know, just
like a day cragging. no projecting.

When I was just a beginning climber, we would often do 10 or more routes a day, and be on the rock from dawn to dusk. As I got more into sport projecting, I gradually found myself sleeping in more, and sometimes doing as few as 3 runs on a route in the day. I suppose that's progress?

I used to try to get a minimum of 500 feet any given day out. Project days were the exception. I felt like I got something done if I made at least 500 feet.
On boulders I used the V point system. If I could get 30 -50 V points I would be happy. I was only able to do a 100 point day once.

7 to 9 sport; 4 to 6 trad

If before or after work, 4-6 routes.
If over lunch 2-4 routes.
If for a whole day, and I was sport climbing... Oh wait, I don't spend days sport climbing, so I honestly don't know.
But if I go to Eldo for a day and my partner has the energy for it, I expect to get 10 pitches in. If he/she is low energy, or the weather is tough, then 6-7 pitches will do (IE: Sunday we did Redguard to the Diving Board, then it rained, so we quit climbing)

I try to do the number that the day requires.

I also like the less is more approach.

I just did a three day weekend and got 4 pitches in. They were at a decent altitude with a steep approach, granted, but that's still pretty pathetic. But I got to lead all the pitches, so I figure I saved the obligatory "I gotta come back and lead the even/odd pitches" spiel. So, really, I climbed 6 pitches (the 4 pitches I led + 2 pitches I don't have to come back and lead because I led them). Plus, I onsighted the thing, so that's like two more pitches. 8 trad pitches in a day. Respectable!

So, by my calculations, I earned the two recovery days afterward. The math all checks out, don't worry ;).

depends on the grade ...

if its moderate ... 10+ pitches

if its at yr limit ... much less

Depends. Casual cragging with lots of below-limit onsighting I get 8-12 pitches in a day depending on motivation, crowds, etc. Sometimes one hard onsight or repoint attempt totally trashes me and I only get on 3-4 different pitches all day. I've had bouldering days where I only get on 2 problems.

Well, I usually find that I do 3-6 sport pitches for a day of not-killing-myself sport climbing. I'd say that's traditionally been a combo of me and my partners, and I often end up time limited rather than energy limited. If I was less worried about losing somebody else's gear, I'd go longer :P Bouldering in the gym for two or three hours, I probably will shoot for 1-2 moderate/hard problems, 6-7 easy/moderate problems, and spend a bunch of time working on one or two moves that I need to work out.

Eamon