theCrag/website — Issue #370: Mixed style for trad with bolts
Author: scd
Created: 2011-11-03 06:23:33+00:00
State: open

From Will:

Another one: for route styles I see you have omitted "mixed" as an option because "a mixed route need's [sic] trad gear so it should be marked as trad AND also have the number of bolts needed for the route". IMO it would be better to have another category of Route Style which is "Mixed" (or "Mixed: trad & bolts" or similar, if non-Aussies don't get the "mixed" terminology). Is this doable?

The problem is that there are heaps of routes for which the bolt count is not known and therefore won't be entered ... making it look like a pure trad route in thecrag. But people seem reluctant to nominate it as a "trad" route and seem to prefer to leave it as "unknown", so very little info is actually being gathered about the pro. Being able to nominate the route as "Mixed" doesn't require as much knowledge at the time of data entry, but tells people a lot more about the nature of the route. It would also improve the higher level "area" summary info (eg "mostly mixed" ) ... and people can still enter the number of bolts if known...