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New Grampians bans announced: Taipan, Bundaleer 19-Aug-2020 At 7:31:54 PM Olbert

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On 19-Aug-2020 gordoste wrote:
>Scenario 2 is great! We can prove to traditional owners that PV's behaviour
>is the problem, not ours. So far, we do not have proof that PV has actually
>fabricated evidence. Their sin has been to simply accept anything they
>get told. Someone tells them that climbers put a bolt there - they don't
>ask for proof. It's just laziness and I'm hoping the embarrassment from
>these episodes has made them less lazy.
>
>If they fake up a photo as you suggest, then we can wipe the floor with
>them. So, don't climb there and let them shoot themselves in the foot.
>
>There is obviously a 3rd scenario that you're missing though.

I think I'm just in the 3rd stage of grieving - anger and bargaining. Serpentine is a dream of mine and I am just now getting good enough to give it a serious go. Before Victoria went into lockdown I was trying to put together a trip.

I have no plans to do a sneaky sneak on Taipan. As a public servant myself, I would like to think that Parks is filled with reasonable people and there will, in the medium term, be a fair outcome. Especially if climbers are reasonable and act like adults. It's just that thus far, Parks has shown no willingness to act reasonably themselves.