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General Climbing Discussion

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Sport climbers - why don't you climb trad? 29-Jan-2013 At 12:52:29 PM Climboholic
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On 29/01/2013 nmonteith wrote:
>On 29/01/2013 Climboholic wrote:
>>
>>People climb sport because most of the trad climbs worth doing in
>NSW
>>have been retrobolted.

>>
>
>Not exaggerating are we? I don't think the Eternitys, Icebirds, Echo Cracks,
>Flight of Pheniox, Strangeness and Charms have been retroed have they?
>There is plenty of unblemished trad routes in NSW!

I said most and I was referring mainly to the Bluies.

The point I was making was that a sport ethic develops in an area that is predominantly sport.

I learnt to climb on trad, then I moved to Canberra and was quite happy (if not a little scared at times) on ACT granite. Then I moved to Newcastle and I lost interest in climbing for a while due to the lack of trad options within 3 hours.

Vanessa, I'd be keen to know where the trad that's not in the guidebooks is? I enjoyed the handful of climbs at my grade (<20) at the Zawn and a few days at Monkey Face, but I started to run out of inspiration after about a year. It's also hard to get most people I know around here motivated for a trad trip.

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