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Why do you climb? 24-May-2015 At 10:54:56 AM Snacks

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On 23/05/2015 Climboholic wrote:
>One of the biggest examples of self delusion I've seen amongst climbers
>is when they claim to put up new routes to 'give back' to climbing. If
>you want to contribute then go to a track maintenance day, or pick up some
>rubbish, or bury your sh!t. But be honest with yourself, doing a climb
>then jumping on TheCrag to upload it is an egotistical act. If you truly
>want to be altruistic then you could volunteer to contribute to one of
>the many legitimate issues in the world: the refugee crisis, religious
>fundamentalism, climate change, etc. But accept the fact that climbing
>is inherently selfish and the world does not have a critical shortage of
>uninspiring, hard sports climbs.

+1 to that

Don't particularly want to be a 'bolter' myself, but I don't mind helping them out from time to time. Can be a fun day out in itself...

Though you may have met some different bolters to disillusion you but all of the bolters I personally have met do plenty or have done plenty of rebolting of old routes out of their own pocket and maintain anchors etc on a regular basis... VanessaW, JasonL, MattB, NeilM, MikeL, PaulT, BenL, RickP, SimonV and I'm sure there's others I've met that I can't think of right now...

Perhaps all that money could be 'better' spent elsewhere but I'm in a glasshouse on that one. I'm not going to be complaining when I next clip into some shiny new steel that now sits aside some 10mm embedded mank somewhere.

Maybe it's easier to just climb for yourself and your own reasons?