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General Climbing Discussion

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mouseys magical land of nonsense 18-Apr-2007 At 5:45:43 PM alrob
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On 18/04/2007 mousey wrote:
>onceuponatime m9 bestoweed upon us these quotes...
>
>>Yvon Chouinard from Rock & Ice No127 Sept. 2003
>>Q: Does the rise of standards in bouldering & sport climbing spill over
>into other facets of >climbing?
>>A: "Bouldering & sport climbing are valuable, but they are not legitimate
>forms of climbing. >Without risk, things like that are not really climbing."
>>
>>Q: Do climbers educate themselves?
>>A: "Climbing has become a very selfish thing. The trend began with the
>me-too generation of >the 80's. An example is the Dolomites, where everything
>is bolted. It's pitiful we are no >longer a self-policing activity."
>
>I'd like to stir a bit of that 2nd question into the cauldron... the mousey
>in me reckons that this is pretty well on the same wavelength as my comments
>in the other thread...
>>leave it as a challenge. if you cant step
>>up to the mic then dont adjust the scales to suit your own selfish comfort
>>zone.
>
> what is your take on this one mister Al... should we be going lowest
>denominator or darwinian?

there were too many big words in them sentences there mr mousy. i'llst haffta reads it a bits more before i cans give an anser sir.

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