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Fixed gear guidelines in the Grampians 14-May-2018 At 6:38:34 AM kieranl

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On 13-May-2018 gfdonc wrote:
>kieranl wrote:
>>Sorry to report that the 500m mark ..[snip]
>>..While somewhat arbitrary it includes a significant number of cliffs,
>including Rosea and Bundaleer. >Enough other cliffs are also close enough
>to this mark to hopefully make people take notice of it.
>
>Hold on there, cowboy. If you want to make a moratorium about specific
>cliffs then just list them. There are lots of 'forgotten' crags above
>the 500m mark that are getting revisited as part of a forthcoming guidebook.
> I doubt most of the current crew have ever heard of them.
>

The remark about Rosea and Bundaleer was a comment as they were the prime topics of the other thread, not a reason for the 500m limit. Your second sentence is more to the point as to why 500 was plucked from the sky. The proposed moratorium isn't about specific crags and isn't an end in itself, it's just intended as a circuit-breaker.