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re: snow flurries in argus 8-Oct-2004 At 4:00:03 PM A.K. Dancer

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This is the kind of thing that cracks me up – people head out to grand old cliffs with bugger all history of being bolted (prior to the activities of Kent and Neil), put up what sounds like a poorly thought out line of bolts and rap stations and then can’t handle the flak they cop for doing it.

The Asses Ears was for a very long time been a cliff that had no bolts, and which still offered lovely climbing in the grade range of your 14/16 “Arapiles climber” which go all the way to the top of the cliff (not to mention other harder climbs, also done without bolts). I would think that this “Arapiles climber” (who would be the person to give a fark about the grade if it was +/- 2 grades) who has gone out to the remote area that is the Asses ears is not after a sanitized climbing experience that only gets them one pitch off the ground.

Kent, it seems obvious to me that you are pandering to the needs of a select group of climbers – those who own sixty metre ropes and who prefer doing climbs with bolts on them. Perhaps you should consider what it is that some of the other climbers out there are hoping to get out of climbing in the area before you go and do this again. I for one question the need to introduce this type of climbing to the Asses Ears, as I’m sure Mr Thyme does also.

Don't take it too hard though Kent - if you want to be a prolific new router, then you will cop it for making mistakes. But just being a prolific new router doesn't absolve you, rather it imposes greater responsibilites.