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VIC Grampians Halls Gap The Watchtower (General) [ Watchtower Guide | Images ] 

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Watchtower new bolted line. 12-Mar-2014 At 2:54:46 PM Damien Gildea
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On 12/03/2014 sbm wrote:
>>...very few people actually
>want land managed for the environment's best interest. They want land managed
>for their best interest, everyone has an agenda and just wants to hear
>that their activities are totally green.

That's a bit of a generalisation, and thus teetering toward being at least partly wrong, though in general I would agree. But in Australia, unlike many places, we have the luxury of being able to set aside areas because their environmental protection is the top priority and still have somewhere to pursue our personal 'agenda'. Many countries do not, particularly when it comes to climbing rock - the UK being a prime example.

It's easier for us to compromise than it is for many others, to act in the best interests of the land. Does EVERY crag have to be 'developed' here? Just climb somewhere else. Does EVERY crag that gets climbed need bolts and rap stations and tracks and guides and hype?

Nobodies activity is totally green, not if they're reading this on a computer, sitting in a building, having got there by an automobile, wearing clothes. So I think that accusation is a bit of a straw man.

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