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Sport Climbing to be Prohibited in Tasmanian WHA 22-Jan-2015 At 5:10:13 PM johny

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On 22/01/2015 nmonteith wrote:
>On 21/01/2015 johny wrote:
>>So climbs with bolts arent climbs?

>In summary - I use bolts, I place bolts. I just don't think that somewhere
>like Frenchmans or Federation needs sport climbs.

I admit I was being pedantic about your original statement about bolts. So your against sport routes in frenchmans and feder. Thanks for clearing up your position.

I believe that just because an area is WHA does not instantly mean no bolts. Banning bolts is a reactionary and unrealistic approach. In the same vein, just because bolting is legalized does not mean that everyone is going to run out to federation peak and rap bolt a sport climb.

These new rules have been put up as if there ever was some kind of bolting issue. There never has been. Well there has been the actions of basically one or two people with one or two routes that really pissed off a couple parks guys. Its more a personal vendetta than any kind of objective measure of the climbing community.

I resent the waste of time spent on regulating climbers in Tassie WHA by Parks when it is being blown open for logging and massive tourism development by the current govt. Parks (and I guess you and damo) are worried about literally a handful of bolts in 1.5 million hectares while abbott and co. are just going to chuck the whole state to loggers and eco-tourist billionaires.