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Trashing Tassie ... it's beyond salvation 24-Jan-2011 At 11:44:49 PM jesus

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John Fisher wrote :

>>>The abseil bolts have been chopped in keeping in line with the Ben as a bastion of >>>trad climbing in Australia. The idea is by having the Ben as a “no bolts” zone, it >>>keeps wankers from putting up poxy sport routes...

I wooda thought that ,eg , ( glue in stainless steel ) carrots bolts are well and truly part of ' trad climbing ' in the Australian context . Occasional bolts at ' trad ' crags ,. such as Frenchmans Cap are perfectly acceptable ....not to mention blantant all-bolted routes in the ' wilderness ' area of Geryon / Acropolis .

>>>wankers putting up poxy sport routes...

A recent climbing trip to Mt Blackwood and then The Gorge in Lawnceston , clearly suggests that Nowra hasn't got a monopoly on wankers ...

Just as ' Yoddle up the valley ' had both Rick White and Kim Carrigan screaming in protest , until they realised the contribution that bolts were making to Frog , so too the same thing will happen at Ben Lomond once the first big QUALITY semi-bolted adventure routes are established ... hopefully the ' wankers ' have learned from their excesses in the Gorge , and other places ...

Bolts ARE part of the AUSTRALIAN trad climbing tradition / experience ...

jesus luvs u ...