Eric Peterson wrote:Class 6 for me, especially in the snow/ice
Eric, they call that "French free."
johngo wrote:
The talk of what "class" this section has some attention.
Class 4 is defined as climbing fairly equally with hands and feet, in a place where a fall would be fatal.
For most folks with average coordination and abilities, this section on Munra would satisfy that.
If you fell down the Munra chimney, you probably wouldn't die unless you landed on your head. But that could happen walking down some stairs.
Keep in mind that the original definitions of 4th class given by the Sierra club in the 1930s went up to what we now call "low 5th," and some even went up to 5.6. I climbed the scramble route up Cathedral Peak in Tuolumne last summer (first ascent route by John Muir in the 1890s) and at the top you traverse a sloping ledge out to a short block (around 15 ft) and then climb a pair of super easy cracks to the top, all with a 700 ft near vertical drop behind you. The rating for that route is "class 4." The Munra chimney where you might break your leg can be placed in comparison.
If you're keen on turning Munra into a via ferrata, I believe the last time this (same) discussion came up here, Matt offered to install a bright orange ladder made out of unicorn tears or something up there.