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Boganville 4-Jun-2010 At 9:02:51 PM Chuck Norris

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On 4/06/2010 Linze wrote:
then it should have just been
>put to bed with the climbs being called A,B C etc...

As a member of the climbing community I am grateful for the laugh that i got when reading the published route names.

Not taking sides but the artifice of "naming routes" and "first ascent" is a construct of the climbing community. How can a name for a lump of rock (no matter how much metal it has been vandalised by) be "incorrect", let alone "purposely incorrect".

Having "your" route named in a guide with your name on it is the climbing community tipping its hat to your efforts - and its one that is pretty well respected in Oz. (despite the wide variety of characters the "climbing community" attracts). Your friends wanted more than a tip of the hat and gave two fingers to the guidebook writer. He gave two fingers back. Give two fingers, get two fingers - thats a rule of life. Why do your friends expect better treament than that.