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Sonnie Trotter Goes Down on Tasmania 26-Feb-2016 At 11:01:30 PM One Day Hero

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On 26/02/2016 Tastrad wrote:
>One day hero..what a fun sucker you are! Why does me pottering around the
>local crags having fun and doing new routes upset you so much.

It doesn't bother me that much......unless you also write the guidebook, hype your new crags to the max, and trick me into wasting days when I could have been climbing mega classics instead!
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>I don't think I've bolted a single
>no-star filler

You must assume I've never been to Hillwood, or that sandstone pox pit whose name I've erased from my brain.

>at $5 a bolt, why would I waste my money?

Trust me, I was asking that question at Hillwood.

> As for shortman, read Bob's quote again..the route did not exist before
>someone climbed it. A route by definition is a path that's been travelled..before
>that it was a non-descript piece of rock. The climb is a creation of the
>first ascensionist.

Look, I won't speak ill of someone who's kicked the #4 tube chock, but just cause Bob wrote it in a book does not make it so.