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Fixed gear guidelines in the Grampians 12-May-2018 At 3:58:52 PM Wendy

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On 12-May-2018 One Day Hero wrote:
>On 11-May-2018 kieranl wrote:
>>Why 500m? I think it covers the majority of the remote areas in the Grampians.
>>But, open to suggestions on another measure.
>>
>I was wondering the same thing. Where did this arbitrary altitude come
>from? Then I went into the nati cafe and started browsing the collection
>of argus mags up on the wall. Wouldn't you know it, most of the new routes
>at araps in the last year have kieranl, a couple of bolts, and a loweroff
>in the description.......and araps is lower than 500m. What a tremendous
>coincidence!

I think you might be getting a false impression from using Argus. Have a look at thecrag. I would suggest that Glenn, Geoff, Maureen, Adam, Gareth and myself might be well represented. Geordie would if he actually got back to his too. While we are making random deliniations, maybe we need to ban anyone whose name starts with G. That would even get rid of Douglas, whose real name is actually Garth. There, now the only remaining potential offenders are me, adam, Keiran and maureen. Seeing maureen and I are currently out of action, this rule will reduce new bolts at araps to Adam and Keiran's, or by approximately 78% less.

I should infact include Gordy in that list, but he's just going to do whatever random thing he wants anyway.