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Disclaimer

Last updated: 19 September 2026

This page describes what the climbing information in grnyte is, where it comes from, and what it cannot tell you. Read it as a description of the data, not as a waiver.

1. Where this information comes from

Every entry in grnyte was written by a climber and describes the place as one person found it on one day. Route names, grades, descriptions, topo lines, coordinates, ascent logs, comments, photos and videos are all submitted by the members of your region. Where I add an entry, I add it as one more climber, with the same margin for error as anyone else.

Rock and the gear in it change after someone writes about them. Holds break, fixed gear ages, a tree comes down, a landing shifts, an approach grows over. An entry that was accurate when it was written can be wrong today, and nothing in the app marks the moment it stopped being true.

An entry can be wrong about:

  • the grade
  • the number, position and condition of any fixed gear
  • the ground under a boulder or the state of a landing
  • the approach, the descent and the coordinates
  • whether the route described is the route in front of you

2. Nothing here is checked

No inspection happens at any point. I do not visit crags, do not confirm grades, do not test bolts or anchors, and do not read entries for accuracy before or after they appear. I act on what people report to me, and acting on one report is not a check of anything else. Nothing in grnyte carries my approval, and nothing in it records a check by anyone else.

I do not run a bolted crag or a climbing facility. I do not equip routes, I do not place or replace bolts, and I do not look at the rock.

This matters most where an entry is quiet. If a route carries no warning and no comment, that means nobody reported anything about it. It does not mean the route was looked at and found sound. A route with nothing written on it may be the one fewest people have climbed.

3. Specific warnings

A warning on an entry is somebody’s report, passed on. Where a report tells me something concrete about one specific hazard, I add it to the entry it concerns: a loose block above a start, a spinning bolt, an anchor somebody found damaged. I do not verify what the report says, and I do not go and look.

Such a warning covers that hazard and nothing else. It says nothing about the rest of the route, the neighbouring lines, or the crag. Everything in section 2 still applies to the entry it sits on.

Adding a warning is not an inspection, and passing a report on does not mean I watch the crag or that I checked the entry it concerns. Nothing here is a promise that every hazard reported to me reaches an entry, or reaches it in time to help you. One person reads that inbox.

If you find a hazard, tell the people you climb with, and report it so it reaches the entry: the reporting page says how to reach me and what to include. A hazard nobody reports stays invisible.

4. Access, land and permission

grnyte does not know who owns the ground under a crag, and it cannot find out. It holds what members typed into it. It has no land registry, no list of closures, no agreements with owners and no way to check whether climbing at a given place is allowed.

Use it for places where you already have permission to climb. An entry existing in your region is not permission, not a right of way, and not evidence that anyone asked. Find out who owns the land, whether access is open and whether a seasonal closure, a conservation condition or a climbing agreement applies before each visit. The app cannot tell you any of it.

If land you own or manage appears in grnyte, the reporting page tells you how to contact me and what to send. I can remove an entry. There is no mechanism to hide one or restrict who sees it, so removal is the remedy I can offer.

5. Grades are opinions

A grade in grnyte is one climber’s opinion, recorded by whoever typed it in. Scales differ between countries, and the same scale is applied differently between areas and between decades.

Height, reach, conditions and style move a grade for the person on the rock. Treat the number as an opinion about difficulty, not as a measurement of it, and least of all as a statement about danger.

6. Offline copies are older than the app

grnyte keeps a copy of data on your device so it works without a signal. At a crag with no reception, you are reading what your device downloaded the last time it had one.

That copy can be days or months old. A correction or a hazard warning added since then is not in it. Being offline is the normal case at a crag, so assume what you are looking at is behind.

7. No instruction and no advice

grnyte is a record of what climbers wrote down. It is not:

  • climbing instruction or coaching
  • safety advice about a route, a piece of gear or a technique
  • legal advice about access rights or land use
  • medical advice or emergency guidance

Nothing here replaces training, a partner check, your own inspection of the rock and the gear, or your judgement on the day. Learn from qualified people and current instructional sources.

8. Liability

The liability position sits in the terms of service and is not restated here. Read it there, in the section on liability.

My liability for intent and gross negligence, and for damage arising from injury to life, body or health, stands in every case. Nothing on this page limits it.

9. Questions

Write to me about anything on this page. The imprint carries my name, my postal address and the rest of my contact details. For a hazard, a piece of content or a question about land, use the reporting page and send what it asks for, so I can act on it.