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Sport climbers - why don't you climb trad? 29-Jan-2013 At 1:40:28 PM Climboholic

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On 29/01/2013 Snacks wrote:
>Staggy,
>
>Here's a quick link to a filtered search on local Hunter Valley trad climbs:
>
>http://www.thecrag.com/routes/at/11741395/with-grade/AU:1:20/with-gear-style/trad/
>

Leith,

Thanks for the list.

I haven't been to Dora's Pinnacles (might have to be my next trip) so I can't comment on that, but I see very few stars and nothing over a pitch in the rest of the list. You have to make the most of the rock available and and I don't think that retrobolting or bolting potential trad routes is the way to do it.

My comment about retroing good trad climbs was prompted by the recent bolting at Kaputar and the comment about retroing at lower shipley (in the early 2000's?).