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Boganville 7-May-2010 At 11:54:28 AM Estey

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On 7/05/2010 pmonks wrote:
>On 7/05/2010 Estey wrote:
>>If Sydney climbers donated 1% of their petrol money into bolting and
>cliff
>>maintenance then there would be enough to replace all the rusting shite
>>on the old mountains classics as well as provide seed funding for new
>routes.
>
>Having done a miniscule bit of both new routing and rebolting old classics,
>I can tell you that 100% of the money would be used for new routes.
>
>Here's why: rebolting existing routes is as expensive and almost as much
>hard work as bolting new routes, but without any of the enjoyment or glory
>of a first ascent. I simply don't believe that many developers (Martin's
>friends included) are motivated by anonymous charity work - that's just
>not how most people are wired.
>

I'd like to think there is more altruism out there. Hats of to the Rockies, Climbing Anchors, Mikl etc who are actually fixing up old routes. My point is a lot more could be achieved if more people opened their wallets. I also think you could actually get more satisfaction fixing up a long forgotten route into something people will climb rather than putting up something of lesser quality. Each to their own.