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TR - Mt Buffalo Southside Gorge FA 16-Apr-2018 At 7:01:39 PM One Day Hero

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On 16-Apr-2018 bigchris wrote:
>It's clearly not your cup of tea, but it
>is mine and I'd have it no other way. In between the grunts and screams,
>it can be some of the most technical, beautiful and elegant climbing styles
>around. What's not to love!

Heaps not my cup of tea. It's great to see people out there doing something other than gently overhanging sandstone sport routes though.

>Offwidth crack climbing is a thing. And you may hate or you may love it.
>But just because you think it's unpleasant won't stop people from throwing
>their carcasses in them and that's what it's all about.

I'll be cheering if it happens, but it almost certainly won't happen. Australians barely climb cracks which are nice, let alone toothy wide horrorshows. Here's a question. If nobody repeats your route for fifty years, the grunge grows back, and the bolts just sit there unclipped, would you still consider that bolting the climb was worthwhile? I ask myself the same question with routes I've bolted, btw.