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Manufacturing 10-Aug-2004 At 9:35:10 PM robbo

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The other day i bolted a new crag in the grampians (still a secret) And several of the routes i put bolts in had several metres of blank rock so I Drilled a series of pockets. My friends have almost chosen to disown me. But I just don't understand where their coming from. I have left several natural placements on these routes and only dug out as many pockets as bolt holes i saved. So i'm doing just as much drilling as would someone who grid bolted the area. I've chosen to stand up and take the public blows and ask the genral public to get off their bloody high horse. What leg do you stand on. Are you opposed environmentally or opposed to the taking of something from the future of rockclimbing. I drilled no more than what someone else could have just bolting the area and the sections were impossible and if some young punk figures out how to do it with out these holds i'll fill them back in. Please explain this stupid moral ground.