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The carrot patch..? 5-Sep-2010 At 10:04:46 PM devlin66

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Hey, I was just using the terms that the community as a whole use. I never mentioned that whole crags should be bolted. I would much prefer to see lines that go on gear to be considered in 'sport' areas. I think if we didn't have wholesale bolting of crags we'd have less issues. Like I said I don't like using the term 'sport', makes me cringe when I say it.

I just go climbing. Mostly on climbs that have bolts that are either mechanically fixed or glued into the rock by someone else and you just clip them as you go past but as I said I like to climb on climbs where you use the natural rock for protection by putting in nuts and cams and whatever else the cheap ass dirtbag climber has come up with and sometimes I like to do climbs which have a mixture of both fixed bolts and natural gear. I wish the was an easier way to say all that. Oh yeah, there is. Sport, Trad and Mixed. (again cringe) :-))

Shit climbing only feels shit when you're doing it. Afterwards in the pub it's all good climbing.