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She sells sea shells - Point Perp 5-Apr-2013 At 2:40:02 PM Chloe

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On 12/03/2013 nmonteith wrote:
>On 12/03/2013 One Day Hero wrote:
>>I think the current situation is a really good insight for the bolters
>>as to how they treat people who don't want to see old mixed crags gridded.
>>Rick and I came to an agreement, then some unknown person who isn't involved
>>in that agreement came and chopped a route. This is how it goes for traddy
>>folk all the time.
>
>The difference is that a new route has a first ascent name attached to
>it. So it's easy to identify the 'offender'. That's not the case with the
>anonymous chopper.
>
>But I do see your point...

I am new to all the politics of this but from my reading of this thread the retrobolters don't seem to be named so there is more than one double standard applying here, and it would also seem that any new route bolter that bolts over old routes has no standards when it comes to doing their homework.