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Fully sick bolt wars at Araps 11-May-2016 At 10:09:10 AM The good Dr

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On 10/05/2016 Macciza wrote:
>Yawn, more ascents doth butter no parsnips ...
>I'd rather it had less ascents, but by a better class of climber ...
>It's got some bolts that you don't need to clip, it certainly doesn't
>need any more...
>
>And if it's all so easy and 'sport climbing'ish then come on - step up
>or shut up - just don't clip up ...
>

There is no class in spraying about a new dodgy headpoint. Describing a climber as being of a better class just because they climb a sketchfest is quite yawn inducing, particularly considering some of the folks who could do it are regular a-holes in real life.

I saw a climber with real class the other day. Still climbs very hard, has put up some of the most sought after routes in the country over a long time and is still having fun. Some climbers rapped off the Bluffs at Araps. he asked them what they had just done. they sheepishly replied 'Blockbuster'. He enthusiastically congratulated them and excitedly gave them his memories of when he did the route the first time. That is a better class of climber.