Herbstzeit: hard for the grade
A good route at Neufundland. Franzi wanted to lead, but the bolt spacing turned out fairly wide.
Machine-translated from the German original. The German version is the one I actually wrote.
Good route, but hard for the grade. That happens regularly, and you only notice once you’re on it.
Franzi had wanted to lead. The bolt spacing turned out fairly wide though, and that’s the point where you make an honest decision rather than an ambitious one.
Wide spacing isn’t a problem in itself — it becomes one when you meet it for the first time on a route that’s already harder than expected.