BoulderGradeLog

BoulderGradeLog is a climbing logbook for people who would rather have a true number than a flattering one. Log a climb in about ten seconds, and get back the two things a logbook is actually for: what you climb, and what to go and do next. V4 IS NOT "6B" It is 6B or 6B+, and there is no honest table that says otherwise. The V-scale is coarser than Fontainebleau through the middle of the range, so one V grade covers two Font rungs — and this app tells you that instead of quietly picking one. Convert the other way and the answer is exact, because Fontainebleau is the finer scale. The conversion tables are part of the app, not a download, and the cells where a column repeats a label are marked, so you can see exactly where the two scales stop lining up. Fontainebleau and the V-scale for problems. French, YDS and UIAA for routes. Set each discipline separately and print the second scale in brackets if you want both. Nothing on disk depends on the choice: a climb is stored as a rung on a ladder, so switching scale relabels your entire logbook and moves not one entry. THE PYRAMID, COUNTED PROPERLY One send at a grade means you got away with it once. A pyramid under it — one at the grade, two below, four below that — means you climb it. The important part is that a send fills one slot and one only. Four ascents of 7A do not complete a 7A pyramid: one goes in the top slot, two into the rung below, one into the rung below that, and you are still three short. Counting every send towards every rung it cleared would let a spike look like a base, which is the exact thing a pyramid exists to disprove. What does count downward is a harder send. Three at 7A prove the 6C+ base, and you will never be sent back to tick easier problems to demonstrate it. Choose a stricter shape if you want one: 1·2·3, 1·2·4, 1·3·6 or 1·2·4·8. LOG THE FAILURES TOO An evening on a project you did not finish is more work than three easy ticks. Attempts go in the book and are drawn on the chart beside the sends — they simply never fill a pyramid, because a grade you have not sent is a grade you have not sent. Onsight, flash, redpoint, repeat or attempt. Onsight is offered on routes and not on problems, because there is no onsighting something you are standing under and can see every hold of. Pick a first-go style and the go counter locks to one, so the logbook cannot contradict itself. TEN SECONDS A CLIMB A new entry copies the venue, grade and angle from your last one, because almost nobody logs a single climb and walks out. Recent venues are one tap. The grade picker is a strip you flick through rather than a menu of two dozen items, and it opens where you last were. Record the wall angle and the sort of holds while you are there. After fifty ascents that is the difference between "I am plateaued" and "every send in the book is a crimp on a vertical wall". YOUR OWN RECORD, AND NOBODY ELSE'S Four weeks of climbs as a chart with the attempts stacked under the sends. Sends spread across the grades, so you can see whether your pyramid is broad or a spike. First-go rate, goes per send, sessions, venues, angles, and a streak counted in weeks rather than days — because almost nobody climbs daily and a daily streak reads as one for everybody with a job. Twelve notches, from your first send to a hundred sessions. No leaderboard, because there is no network code in the app to carry one. EVERYTHING STAYS HERE No analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting, no networking. The Android build requests no permissions whatsoever — which also means no notifications, so it will never nag you to log a session, and no location, so a venue is a name you typed rather than a place it read. No account, no sync, nothing to buy.