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Victorian Re-Bolting. Do you agree with them? 3-Feb-2006 At 1:20:34 PM stuart

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> The fact that the NBF members aren’t a bunch of computer nerds who have nothing
> better to do during the day than post shit on forums (or maybe they just don't have
> boring office jobs) – doesn’t mean to say that they prefer the ‘under cover’ approach.
> Some of their bolting findings and replacement initiatives can be ‘publicy’ viewed in
> the shop window of the Arapiles Mountain Shop – as well as a list of their ‘upgrades’
> (anchors or otherwise). To be honest though – they probably have the means to enter
> into this forum – but choose not to because they know that dribbling on about these
> affairs on the internet isn’t ever going to reach any conclusions.

Hear hear bloody hear. This nicely sums up the solipsism of the geek-tending climbing set who seem to have a developed the idea that their wafflings, dribblings and polls on a website somewhere constitute 'the way' of all climbing and consensus of climbers generally. In lieu of people taking themselves so seriously, is it any wonder that many of us 'lurk' on this particular forum rather than post? Perhaps we're not interesting in upping the noise-to-signal ratio with still more dribbling.

To some people a hand-written note in the window of the climbing shop 8kms from the crag represents a far more relevant and credible information dissemination vehicle than some internet forum somewhere.

S