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Bottom Feeders... 18-Jul-2009 At 4:16:08 PM adztcc

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This week I spent a solid day of re-bolting an open project (the line of old carrots) and replacing loose bolts on Hip Shake Jerk Wall, Blue Mountains. I returned 3 days later to remove the old bolts and carrots and check the new bolts and make sure the glue had set and everything was good to go. I arrived at the car park and hadn’t even got out of my car before my mate was telling me he ran into you know who... and said that the route had been done in 1989 by G Weigand and was graded 26 and goes by some german name and that You Know Who took the tag off...What?! He took the tag off!... Bummer about the route being done but that’s climbing and at least I’ve given a new life to an old climb... But why was my tag taken off?? The route was obviously not finished and could be dangerous to some unsuspected climber and there were still loose bolts on it! Why would you do that??...Im lost for words...So it turns out that You Know Who also climbed the route then put it up on the ACA site...

What gets me is that this person (who has bolted and re-bolted many climbs in the Blue Mountains) has been completely disrespectful and had the hide to climb this route! He should know better! Climbers ethics mate if someone rebolts or bolts a route you respect what they have done and let them climb it. And you don’t take tags off!! Everyone knows that!!