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Removing bolts to create trad paradise 7-May-2007 At 1:34:55 AM Dodgy_Gear

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Touche Simey, but having your picture on the pub wall winging of a route (Up there with Gloom on the cover of the Kimbo guide), still getting flogged playing for the Rams (2 goals is nearly a win, maybe next week), would have to bring you back down to near my level. Not to mention the world wind romantic trip to UK which would probably make us about even.
What bothers me is the hippocrasy of it all, the notion that it's ok to bolt the shit out of one crag/area, and then proclaim that another area is going to be "cleansed" of all fixed gear. Who are these people that say what I can and can't do at a crag, I have the utmost respect for the environment that I climb in (I am neither pro or anti bolting, just sensible bolting), I have no respect for these people and the mess they have created in other areas. Are they doing this for the greater good of the "climbing community" (maybe talk to a few of the climbers that you see everyday in Nati, and see how they feel about it? Although I bet most will just roll their eyes when you mention this web site.) If so count me out.

As for the dangerous precedent, DC was close to the money. More along the lines of fixing up things the way we think they should be!