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Trashing Tassie ... it's beyond salvation 15-Jan-2011 At 1:37:58 PM jesus

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FINGAL WAS ONCE BOB MCMAHON'S ' SPIRITUAL HOME ' ... NOW BORN-AGAIN-BOLTER , GERRY , HAS BUTCHERED YESTERDAYS REALITY INTO ' TOMMOROWS DREAM ' ... JUST AS HE HAS DONE AT EVERY OTHER CRAG IN NORTHERN TASMANIA .................. BEN LOMMMMMOND IS SIMPLY THE FINAL PLACE LEFT TO BE CRUCIFIED ... JUST GET ON WITH IT BOYS , AND STOP BEING HYPOCRITS .

Thankfully the bolting frenzy, at the Tyndal Range , calmed down a few years ago ; and the hobart boys have finally realised that Mt Wellington is over-saturated with bolts ... Fingal has gone from being a very special place to being just another tasty-fast-food experience ,as Bananaglitch hurls himself forward , semi-blindly , in pursuit of a commercial dollar , derived from mediocre-standard guide books ...he vainly clings to profoundly important values of the past by trying to keep the Ben bolt-free , while at the same time spurring on ' the state of the art ' at every other crag ...Clearly the influences of Danny Ng and Saphire Rose have fuelled his addiction for the drill ...

A BOLT-FREE BEN LOMMMMOND * NOW * SERVES NO PURPOSE AT ALL ......GET OVER IT AND START PUTTING UP SOME QUALITY BOLTED CLIMBS .....ITS TIME TO ' YODDLE UP THE VALLEY ' (reference to the route that ended the bolt-free era at Frog Buttress ) ..............BUT TO EASE THE TRANSITION , TRY TO UNDERSTAND THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ' SPORT CLIMB ' AND BOLT-PROTECTED ADVENTURE CLIMB ..................GOOD LUCK ... AND BE GENTLE ...