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Sonnie Trotter Goes Down on Tasmania 18-Feb-2016 At 3:51:31 PM johny

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On 15/02/2016 simey wrote:
>Being a bit of an old timer who likes to reminisce about the good old days,
>I personally want to thank CJ for initiating a slagfest about ethics and
>style, particularly as climbing is a bit too nice nowadays. Back in the
>good old days every second issue of Mountain would have someone bagging
>out someone else because they didn't like the way they established a climb.
>Reading it again now makes me feel young again.

Thanks Simey. We have a massive stack of Mountain which I love reading during the daily constitutional. Maybe I was inspired by this?
Seriously though I was surprised that he sort of kind of claimed the FFA on this. In the end he conceded that it wasn't a FFA even though the online guidebook already has a pisstake entry of his ascent. It was really kind of weird considering his track record of being one of the best proper trad climbers in the world.
The sad thing to me isnt that "Oh My! Climbers are having a disagreement?!?!? What a nightmare?!?!?" it is that I reckon most people simply do not care about trad climbing ethics in the slightest. Like most of the people on this website. But maybe(and I sincerely hope this is the case) the people who do care about traditional climbing ethics are not the type to weigh in on the internet. I guess it takes a special kind of obsessed weirdo to get all uppity about climbing on facebook.