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Bolting at Piddo 14-May-2011 At 4:46:25 AM hotgemini

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On 13/05/2011 nmonteith wrote:
>On 13/05/2011 patto wrote:
>>Suffice to say there are bolts all
>>over the bluies, why is there a desire to bolt the best trad crag in
>the
>>entire area?
>
>There is this strange belief that Piddington is a trad cliff. It's not.
>It's a mixed climbing area. There are some stonker trad lines, but also
>plenty of good semi bolted and fully bolted lines. Many of these bolts
>were placed in the first years of the crags development and bolts have
>been placed there every year since then. Some of the most popular climbs
>on the cliff involve bolts.
>

The absence of bolts does not automatically give carte blanche to ban placing any bolts. As has been said before bolting ethics is always contravertial. However justifying no bolting by the absence of existing bolting is a self referential argument