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Trashing Tassie ... it's beyond salvation 17-Mar-2011 At 5:25:34 PM jesus

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Pole Dancer ... Free Route ... Freed Route ...................... Ive just been talkin with DAD ...and s/he pointed out that this raises another issue ....

.... More effort should have been made by Steve Monks and Simey to check the free-climb-ability and trad protection potential of the original aid route... which now co-hosts , but is not replaced by ... The Freed Route ...

Now let me clarify ... while hanging off my skyhook on Ben , I had a very good look ... I can assure u that there is no ' feasible ' removable protection across the 7 metre vertical face .... and bear in mind that the last ' natural ' runner was 2 metres below where the first crack pinched out .... and then about 1.5 metres up from the start of the second crack / seam .......hmmmm .....maths .......2 bolts in 10 + metres .............. very ADVENTUROUS climbing on an adventuous mountain flank .............. with distant views , across the valleys and plains to .........................grid-bolted pox glinting in the sun light ....which iis comercially / publically hailed as some of the best Tassie has to offer ...