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Crag & Route Beta

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Rings on 7-Aug-2012 At 3:31:00 PM tnd

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Much as I hate to be in agreement with Every Day Retard...cool with Macca, he can actually climb and is willing to attempt routes like this, but...retrobolting these routes was pretty dumb. One route on this wall was previously chopped after retroing, so it's obviously dear to someone's heart.

These routes are pretty worthless really; they're a testament to contrived boldness, not real boldness. But there is a real route up the middle of this wall which is all trad (in that it was FA'd on natural gear after top-rope practice) and it sounds like these new rings will affect that. There are any number of safe ring bolted routes around, there's no reason for these old routes to join the collection.

The way the harder routes were (necky), it was good being able to climb Exhibition Wall knowing that you'd have the whole face to yourself. So chop away.