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Lindfield Rocks 20-Aug-2010 At 1:30:36 PM hargs

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On 20/08/2010 sportdad wrote:
> ... Shouldn't Lindfield be a no-bolt crag?

Some well-disguised rings at the top of the cliff won't bother the boulderers falling off at the bottom. And boulderers aren't the only ones using the place. I learned to climb at Lindfield before there were gyms, and before they let us loose on the crags in the blueys. It's a great place to learn and practice skills we need to get up and down cliffs safely. It's a great place to take friends whose only exposure to climbing is plastic holds and factory complexes before committing them to bigger routes in the mountains. It's a great place to take small kids, who have great fun on the end of a rope -- all of which is easier and safer with appropriate rigging gear. That's why the carrots are there in the first place: the original bolters used the best technology available to them at the time, which is what we should do too.