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34? 18-Mar-2004 At 3:43:16 AM Tel

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On 17/03/2004 joemor wrote:
a bolted line or sport line is bold because someone decided it should
>be that way. the fa chose where the protection points were to be placed.
>i feel that if that person did so and still made the route one in which
>you could hit the ground then they have failed in "placing protection".

Joe..just taking the above into consideration,
if my understanding is correct then the opposite of that statement (good protection) would make the route ok.
So then as a follow on what makes MA such a bad thing, isn't that also a sport route( i am judging by the pic in rock) that the FA basically decided it should be that way.
Then to further complicate matters taking into account Jacquis post ( thanks for posting that) wherein it says, "Artificial climbs also must be disallowed. . . and drilled yourself a made-to-fit route", isn't that what sport routes are though, designer routes.
So to me a + b + c says no sport routes....
bottom line is this is really confusing, but trying to understand.
help anyone?
terry