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Are you totally clueless as to how a route gets its grade?
No, but obviously you are. A first ascent party with skills and a sense of adventure comes along and climbs a line that strikes them as interesting. They stick a number on it. They tell their friends, who also have skills, about it. They hem and haw with the FA team and finally come to agreement about the number. The route gets a reputation. It goes in a guide book. Years later herds of gumby hacks fall their way to the top. They all gather around singing kum-by-ya and whine about the difficulty of the route and decide to call it a bigger number to stroke their delicate egos. Years later a new guide book comes out with the new grade. Voila ! Everything becomes 2 grades harder.
That really only happens at manicured crags... like the trapps.
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