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Sonnie Trotter Goes Down on Tasmania 19-Feb-2016 At 10:49:21 AM johny

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On 19/02/2016 f_abe wrote:
>But why bother in this forum?
>
>To make people realise the humbling reality that your true climbing ability
>is measured by the trad routes you climb ground up placing all gear (onsight
>preferably, but harder routes can take a lot longer, which I personally
>don't see that as a bad thingl),

Yeah pretty much. :) But my main point is that if someone is putting up their hand and saying, "look at this first free ascent I just did!" they better have done it right or just don't bother telling anyone. Does anyone outside of thecrag.com really care what someone top roped?

The history of climbing is a progression. So harder and harder routes get done.El Cap was free climbed then onsighted, etc. People climbing harder trad routes INSPIRES me. I don't think of it as wank and ego. I guess if a person feels they are in the game at whatever grade they climb then people climbing hard inspires them. If a person is out of shape, refuses to train or try hard at climbing it may seem like wank and ego.