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Manufacturing 11-Aug-2004 At 12:30:25 PM Damietta

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Yeh fair call. Nowra has been pretty much Ryo-bit-ized.

A random aside. There was a classic in the ACT in the 80's. A very naughty boy (get it) who now resides in Victoria chipped the crap out of the West Face of the Belfry (a 40m granite spire) and then spray-painted the climb with various inflammatory and inciting remarks directed at the traditional climbing establishment. It was very post modernist - but what can you do? I would be wondering what rules you can really apply here apart from peer pressure and ostracization - because the act of climbing to start with is anarchistic in nature and flies against the authorities - ie if you complained about such an act (as I've described here) to Parks and Wildlife, climbing in its entirety would likely be banned in that area.

It is vague and necessarily poorly defined moral ground