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Bolting at Piddo 12-May-2011 At 7:49:15 PM cogsy

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Wendy's argument is that easy sport routes are usually too crap to be bolted.....come on... are you really saying that EVERY easy trad route at arapiles and the gramps is quality?
Go for a little walk around Mt York .... there are enough absolutely rubbish easy old trad routes to last a lifetime! Good old Chris Baxter and his crew must have put up enough complete rubbish to fill half a dozen guidebooks (though there were obviously some classics too), and some of Ewbanks routes are embarrassingly crap!
Even Frog Buttress has some tiny thrutching vegetated mank, and Yosemite has miles of it!
Surely bumbly sport climbers have just as much right to climb completely rotten piles of rubbish, just like trad climbers do? ;))