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Japanese death anchor 3-Apr-2012 At 11:04:52 PM Ben_E

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On 3/04/2012 j.l.d wrote:

>Go climb in the US for a while and see how far abusing faster climbers gets
>you!

Really? In my 5 years living in California (only sort of the US, arguably) I rarely if ever got overtaken without first being politely asked... except by Europeans, who tended to be a tad more aggressive about passing.

Not that it bothers me much one way or the other... if another group or individual can pass me without horrendously slowing me down, I'm usually happy to let them. Nevertheless, next time it happens I'll try some abuse instead and report back (in the interests of science).

It does sound like there may have been some overreaction to this Japanese family, who by all accounts were moving quickly enough and probably had some idea of what they were doing, even if the anchors were not exactly a John Long Anchors how-to diagram.