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Pioneers of Tassie's Best Climbs 26-Sep-2016 At 1:21:00 AM Wendy

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On 23/09/2016 Tastrad wrote:

>
>People with a few new routes to their name do have more credibility in
>my book, because they understand the effort that goes into a route. The
>people that annoy me are the pricks that come along and whinge and say
>`oh its a bit dirty, or the bolts in the wrong place, or the moves don't
>flow, or the access is shit', and you know they are locals who've made
>hardly any effort to develop the sport, or visitors like One Day Donkey
>Boy who just spray criticism. Their opinion lacks credibility in my eyes.
>

I don't know if you picked your example very well there. Donkey boy (I think I'm going to enjoy this new moniker) actually fits your criteria of climbers whose judgement you would listen to quite well - lots of experience, in lots of styles, at lots of places and a few new routes/cliffs developed to boot.