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Burnley - In need of some work 26-Feb-2008 At 10:56:26 PM fuzzyjulz

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Hi Guys first post here, o it's an important one..

I was at the meeting(entirely by accident), The way i saw it was that the VCC basically has said that the maintencance and management of routes is entirely up to the burnley team. Dispite a heated discussion i think that everyone agrees that there needs to be some kind of maintainence of the holds on the walls particularly the foot holds, of which many are really polished.. you just need to look at he yellow and green on the first wall and the black and green on the second wall...

The second thing that is of importance is that basically as other people have pointed out michelangelo is worried about the funding side of this, and the volume of work. Basically the only real way to get it to happen will be to either donate labour or time into the refurbishment of the walls (or hopefully both). The best way to register your help is to send an email to the burnley group via burnleybouldering@vicclimb.org.au . Rather than saying that it will or won't happen I guess that is up to Michelangelo and his crew to organise, It would be better for him to have a whole bunch of emails pledging work and or funds.

The other thing to note is the question as Michelangelo pointed out, why are only specific routes getting polished and others not... i think that this is up to the next generation of routes on this wall... it says to me that the black and greens are routes that people can do and can warm up on, and to only way to stop this route getting worn is to look at putting a few other routes in that can also take the brunt of the warmup / learning burden... that's just my two cents though...

One final word is that there was a group almost entirely unrepresented at the meeting on thursday. That group is the new starters and the kids that pass through of a weekend, these people i would say do a significant amount of the wear on the walls, and i think personally that the burnley wall is a really good way to get new climbers started, and should new routes be created, the wear that this group and the skill of this group should also be taken into consideration, perhaps some more intermediate climbs would be a good way to try and spread the burden on wall 1?

Anyway enough from me, and I have put my hand up for doing some work to try and keep our wall spick and span!