Thanks for you input Dechristo. At this current juncture this “Guide/list” won’t be leaving my computer. I do like your idea when writing a guide with no stars to add a list of “writers favorites”, this seems like a plausible solution to the “no star” approach. Although at a small crag is seems that if you go to a crag that is still new, you as a climber should be aware of the newness of the crag and be fully aware there are no stars, just grades listed on the “list”. Therefore just be looking up at a climb, the climb will either “call you “or it wont.
Spring Mt is a good example, all three times I have been there I have used Kevin’s (guy who wrote guide) guide you can find online. I don’t believe he used a star system. Either way I do remember just going by grades and how the route looked. Did it look fun? Roofs/features/cracks/sustained/not sustained? That sort of thing. I kind of like that kind of an approach. I really don’t want to spoon feed anybody with the “come and climb my climb because I put it up routine”. They need to climb it for themselves.