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Should you put climbs up for others? 24-Jul-2007 At 11:09:32 AM Nottobetaken

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Depends what your person ethics are I guess, but then if the route feels a tad too dangerous, then why not try another one? There’s a classic Barber route down south here that is a bit of an exciting lead. Vertical/slabby wall on polished rock with micro wire protection behind a questionable block and nothing above that until you are well after the crux. Barber did it with a piton, but that has long since fallen out. Regularly gets TR’d nowadays, but has seen the odd lead whereby the leader has strung a TR off the top complete with knotted loops and draws hung at various intervals. Hardly climbing the same route then, are you? As for the case of badly placed fixed gear - well that's the route equipper's error (stupidity).