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TR: Alive in a Bitter Sea (Katoomba Cliifs) 14-Dec-2016 At 7:59:24 AM rowan

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On 14/12/2016 WarwickB wrote:
>On 13/12/2016 simey wrote:
>>That sounds good Warwick. You establish some more headpoint wank routes
>>and I will come up and retro Alive in a Bitter Sea.
>>
>So, if I go and put up new routes, inspecting, rapping, and bolting them
>on rap, you will go and screw over an entirely different route contrary
>to the wishes of the person who did the first ascent? That's dictatorial,
>alt-right, bullying, and thuggery. Something I reject completely. As you
>might imagine, I don't respond well to being bullied and dictated to by
>some git I hardly know about something I've been doing for over 40 years,
>and which is important to me - climbing.
>
>A response like yours could well result in an epidemic of bolt chopping
>across the country as people return the rock everywhere to its natural
>condition so routes may be climbed from the ground up, or not at all.
>

I don't think it would be dictatorial. Simey hasn't reached dictator status yet. I would consider it more anarchistic. I think the person who did the first ascent always deciding what happens to a piece of rock afterwards is a bit colonialistic.

All the same, I hope the routes don't change.