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Shackles and the sheriff of Shipley 21-Apr-2011 At 9:59:52 AM BundyBear

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>and regardless, my other point stands, becasue it is a high traffic route
>for inexperienced climbers, no matter how much we would like everyone to
>behave in 'the ethical' manner, it just aint gonna happen, and so is it
>not better to equip such routes with stuff that can be easily replaced...
>just sucking it up and putting a new biner up (a worst case scenario of
>every 12 months doesnt actaully seem that bad to me) seems to me to be
>be a better option than blaming the least expericed climbers that go climbing
>once every two years for ruining our lives, i have replaced biners at nowra
>a bunch of times when i came across ones that loooked old, and it didnt
>really ruin my life .... it would be a problem that is limited to only
>a few routes becasue when people are more experienced, they will either
>understand, or have no need to top rope...

Well just make sure that it is you that replaces these biners/anchors. If everyone replaced a couple once or twice a year it would not be a problem, but that will never happen, so its left for people like Mitch to replace everything. Hence, why he probably gets pissed off, it is more the principle of it and looks like you dont appreciate all the work that he does....