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Trashing Tassie ... it's beyond salvation 11-Mar-2011 At 12:44:26 PM jesus

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>>>Having visited most of the Northern, East Coast and North-West crags I must say that the >>>number of mediocre, badly bolted routes is staggering. Bolting practices have been >>>developed over years here on 'the mainland" but it appears that Tassie sport route >>>developers have decided to reinvent the wheel.

" COPY NEIL ????? !!!! "

Neil ... if the CCT do a few chock / choock raffles to cover ur flights / accommodation / beer etc ... would u be willing to go to Lonny , to conduct a re-bolting clinic / workshop etc ... so the northern boys can start cleaning up the pox .... Ive been talking with DAD and s/he says there should be a moritorium on bolting in Tasmania until the crags have been treated and healed ...

Apparently it all started a few years ago when Fisher or someone bolted the lovely sea-side cliffs at Sisters Beach , using mild steel bolts ... just shows the short term smash n grab mentality that still prevails in northern Tassie ... DADs not impressed ... Easter eggs might be withheld until the plague of selfishness has passed ...