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Bolting at Piddo 12-May-2011 At 9:44:50 AM tnd

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On 11/05/2011 egosan wrote:
>...Climbing is a dangerous activity.

Actually it's not. It's a *potentially* dangerous activity. The danger can be managed.

>tnd do you not spend shit loads of money on bits of metal? Do you not
>bolt your own routes? Do you not contribute to re-bolting funds? Why must
>you confuse the argument?

I have and do. But I don't expect anyone else to and understand why others don't want to.

I also mostly self-learned the trade doing dodgy things in ignorance, but I've been blessed with the ability to improve quickly, very high risk tolerance and, most of all, oodles of plain dumb luck! But I understand that most sensible people don't want to take that approach and I have no problem with making it "as safe as possible" for them.

BTW, regarding The Obituary, I must say that is one route where I can't understand how people came a cropper. If you carried 20kg of gear you'd find somewhere to place it all. The only awkward moves are at the start where you can get a good spot from your belayer.