V grades and tape coloring

Do certain colors indicate a certain grade or can any color be used?

yes

the boulders around here don't have tape on them

Sorry...should have specified I was referring to indoor. What colors correspond to which grade?

Hi Dave,

Where are you located? at Rockreation in Los Angeles it's:

pink-yellow-green-blue-orange-red-white-black

I'm not even sure that this is consistent across the three Rockreation locations.

Pink is VB, Orange is around a V3 or so. I don't really pay much attention and of course there are always the cases where an orange goes easy, but a blue will kick me around, etc.

Hope this helps.

you have to go by the ROYGBIV protocol, otherwise you are ruining the experience for everybody else.

Dave,

Based on some of your other posts, I'm assuming you're talking about VE St. Paul? If that's the case, colors don't mean anything. I believe it just happens to be whatever tape the setter has onhand.

Cheers,

Blake

slim wrote:you have to go by the ROYGBIV protocol, otherwise you are ruining the experience for everybody else.

I prefer the resistor color code protocol (BkBrROYGBuVGyW). Gives you V0-V9.

However, it makes changing the grade difficult...what do you do, strip all the tape?