Summits never activated

And why should this summit only get 10 points?

As a largely ‘ex’ mountaineer/climber with many ‘un-notable’ ascents to my credit it has so far as I’m aware, escaped the ability of the mountaineering community to come up with grading system for the difficulty of reaching the summits of different hills and mountains. - with the notable exception of those summits which require a degree of rock or ice climbing ability, and/or approaches requiring difficult approaches across glaciers.

To ‘grade’ every SOTA summit, would in my opinion be impossible for the very reason Mark/VK4MFX gave in his post. There are so many variables to take into account it would take an enormous amount of time and effort to achieve any agreement.

At the end of the day SOTA is meant to be a an enjoyable hobby and an interesting personal challenge.
Dave

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